TANF State Expenditure Integrity Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2108 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2108 To prevent and address intentional misuse of subrecipient TANF funds. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 14, 2025 Mr. Davis of Illinois (for himself, Ms. Chu, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prevent and address intentional misuse of subrecipient TANF funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``TANF State Expenditure Integrity Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PREVENT AND ADDRESS INTENTIONAL MISUSE OF SUBRECIPIENT FUNDS UNDER THE TANF PROGRAM. (a) In General.--Section 417 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 617) is amended-- (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``No''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(b) Authority To Prevent Intentional Misuse of Subrecipient Funds.-- ``(1) Subrecipient monitoring.-- ``(A) In general.--The Secretary-- ``(i) shall develop a framework for the monitoring of subrecipient use of funds provided under section 403(a)(1) of this Act, for the purpose of identifying intentional misuse, to supplement single State audits conducted under chapter 75 of title 31, United States Code; ``(ii) may establish State plan requirements or formats relating to clause (i); and ``(iii) may require States to report to the Secretary such information to supplement the report provided under section 411(a) as the Secretary determines is necessary to enable the Secretary to comply with clauses (i) and (ii) of this subparagraph. ``(B) No effect on single s