The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved HR-598, to improve disclosure of federal programs and HR-2320, to broaden the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act.
The former bill requires OMB to post an inventory of government programs, including the statute authorizing it, the number of people it serves, the number of federal employees working in it, financial information on it, and links to any evaluations of it by agency IGs or the GAO over the prior five years.
OMB also would issue guidance to assist agencies in identifying how the program activities used in budget or appropriations accounts correspond with programs identified in the program inventory, and would post the amount of undisbursed grant funding remaining in grant accounts with expired availability.
The latter bill would extend the availability of the Do Not Pay Initiative to the judicial and legislative branches and to the states; require f Defense and State to submit relevant information on the deaths of individuals; and require Treasury to report to Congress on data analytics performed as part of the Do Not Pay Initiative.
