Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8312 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8312 To establish fraud prevention and program integrity functions and data sharing authorities within the Department of Treasury and a permanent governmentwide Inspector General for Fraud, Accountability, and Recovery, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 15, 2026 Mr. Sessions introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish fraud prevention and program integrity functions and data sharing authorities within the Department of Treasury and a permanent governmentwide Inspector General for Fraud, Accountability, and Recovery, and for other purposes. 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 ``Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act''. SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF FRAUD PREVENTION AND FINANCIAL INTEGRITY FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. (a) In General.--Section 306 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ``Sec. 306. Fiscal Service ``(a) The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a service in the Department of the Treasury. ``(b) The head of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service is the Fiscal Assistant Secretary appointed under section 301(d) of this title. ``(c) The Bureau of the Fiscal Service, having as its head a Commissioner, shall maintain the following functions related to financial integrity, spending transparency, and preventing improper payments resulting in financial loss to the government, and does not include any investigative or law enforcement function, which, in addition to any other duty the Secretary of the Treasury