Federal agencies would be required to develop pre-positioned plans for preventing fraud and improper payments before the next major emergency spending event. Within 180 days, the Office of Management and Budget must issue guidance — updated every three years — covering how agencies should assess fraud risk, implement real-time payment monitoring, and build fraud-detection controls before funds are spent. Each covered agency must submit its plan to OMB within one year and revise it at least every three years. OMB must then deliver a consolidated summary of all agency plans to Congress within 15 months, including any recommendations for future emergency legislation. No new funding is authorized for implementation.
Transparency & Accountability
- Agency emergency-spending control plans — new requirement to submit to OMB within 1 year of enactment
- OMB consolidated plan summary — new annual submission to Congress covering all agency emergency-spending controls
- Real-time payment monitoring mandate — requires agencies to adopt anomaly-detection and fraud-tracking tools before emergency funds flow
- 3-year plan review cycle — adds recurring revision and resubmission requirement for all covered agencies
Congressional Summary
Taxpayer Resources Used in Emergencies Accountability Act or the TRUE Accountability ActThis bill requires agencies to develop and implement plans for preventing fraud and improper payments relating to federal emergency spending (e.g., providing funding relating to disasters or pandemics).The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must issue, and review every three years, guidance to agencies for developing plans with appropriate internal controls. The guidance must incorporate the current Government Accountability Office frameworks for managing fraud risk in federal programs and managing improper payments in federal emergency assistance.Within one year after the bill’s enactment, agencies must submit to OMB plans required by the guidance. Each plan must include procedures to (1) evaluate the risk of financial loss to the federal government caused by improper payments and fraud relating to the agency’s federal emergency spending; (2) develop risk reduction strategies that are, to the extent possible, implemented prior to expenditure; and (3) adopt payment monitoring to identify and reduce improper and fraudulent payments (e.g., anomaly detection). Agencies must revise and resubmit plans, as necessary, at least every three years.OMB must annually submit the plans to Congress along with information relating to helping agencies implement the plans and legislative recommendations for emergency appropriations.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-04-23
- Date Added
- 2026-06-04
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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