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H.R. 4180, Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 1 (January 15, 2016)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2723 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE January 15, 2016 H.R. 4180 Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 9, 2015 H.R. 4180 would require federal agencies to report on their efforts to assess and combat fraud and improper payments in each of the next three years. In addition, the legislation would require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to set up a working group to establish best practices for preventing fraud and improper payments and for sharing analytical information among federal agencies. The Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act requires agencies to establish and maintain internal controls to ensure that federal programs operate efficiently, effectively, and in compliance with relevant laws. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issues financial control standards for the federal government in the Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (known as the Green Book). Additionally, OMB establishes specific requirements for assessing and reporting on financial controls used by the federal government. The standards in the most recent Green Book include methods for assessing the risk of fraud. Based on information from GAO and OMB, CBO expects that implementing the bill would increase the administrative costs of each major federal agency by roughly $50,000 annually, primarily to prepare reports for the Congress for three years. Because there are about 25 major agencies, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 4180 would cost about $4 million over the 2016-2020 period, including funds to operate the proposed working group. Such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Under H.R. 4180, some agencies would increase their efforts to detect fraud and improper payments. Such efforts could result in cost savings to those agencies, but could also lead to additional costs to improve their financial systems. CBO has no basis for estimating the magnitude of either increases in the recovery of fraudulent payments or costs to improve financial systems. Enacting H.R. 4180 also could affect direct spending by some agencies (such as the Tennessee Valley Authority) because they are authorized to use receipts from the sale of goods, fees, and other collections to cover their operating costs. Therefore, pay-as-you-go

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