HR 8463
Passed a chamber
Requires federal agencies to verify payee and bank account information and check for fraud before certifying a payment voucher, expands the Treasury Department's Do Not Pay database and data-sharing rules, and requires new federal grant recipients to file a one-time report on how they first use their award funds.
Official title: Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
23-APR-2026
Referred
23-APR-2026
Approved by committee
29-APR-2026
Reported
08-JUN-2026
On the calendar
08-JUN-2026
Passed
08-JUN-2026
Senate
Received
09-JUN-2026
- Requires the Treasury Secretary, with the Office of Management and Budget, to issue pre-certification payment rules within 180 days after enactment, covering items such as payee identity, bank account validity, and deceased payees.
- Allows the Treasury Do Not Pay system to add data sources, with public notice and comment before personally identifiable information is included, and limits use of Do Not Pay results to payment verification and law enforcement purposes.
- Requires each new recipient of a federal award of at least $50,000 to submit a one-time report on its use of funds, and blocks payment vouchers for that program until a noncompliant recipient files the report.
- Takes effect 180 days after the date of enactment.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (23-APR-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 08-JUN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Ways and Means Committee (House)
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
Government Operations and Politics
■ 2 R■ 1 D
2 Republicans
1 Democrat