YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityAgencies would set up fraud checks on relief money before the next crisis — and report back.
Transparency & Accountability
Each major agency would write a plan for guarding emergency funds before a crisis hits. The plan goes to the White House budget office within a year, and gets a fresh look every three years.
The plan must name one senior person at the agency who answers for carrying it out. That puts a single name behind how the agency guards emergency money.
Plans must use tools that flag odd payments as they happen, like unusual patterns or volumes. The aim is to stop bad payments before the money is gone.
Once an agency starts spending emergency funds, it has 180 days to report how its controls held up. It writes that review with its inspector general, the in-house watchdog.
Each review must say how many payments went out wrongly and what they cost, program by program. It must also explain any plan to get that money back.
The White House budget office would collect the plans and send them to two oversight committees. The first batch is due 15 months after the law takes effect, then once a year.
More about this bill
You would not notice this change in daily life. It works inside the government, before the next disaster or pandemic. Major federal agencies would have to write fraud-prevention plans now, not after relief money starts moving. Each plan must name one senior official who answers for it. Agencies would send their plans to the White House budget office (OMB) within a year. Plans must include real-time checks on payments to catch fraud and errors early. After emergency money goes out, each agency must review how well its controls worked. That review is due in 180 days and is written with the agency watchdog. The budget office must pass all of it to Congress each year. No new money is set aside for the work.
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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