HR-8466 — TRUE Accountability Act

YourVoice.Now Summary

Transparency & Accountability

Requires agencies to have written anti-fraud plans ready before the next emergency, then report to Congress on what worked afterward.

Transparency & Accountability

Emergency-spending fraud-prevention plans — Agencies must file pre-positioned internal control plans with OMB before emergencies occur
After-action review requirement — Agencies must submit formal effectiveness assessments to OMB within 180 days of emergency fund obligation
Annual congressional reporting — OMB must compile and transmit all agency plans and reviews to congressional oversight committees yearly
Senior accountability designation — Each agency must name a specific official responsible for emergency-spending internal controls

The details

Major federal agencies would be required to have written anti-fraud plans in place before the next emergency — whether a pandemic, natural disaster, or economic crisis — rather than scrambling to build safeguards after relief money starts flowing. Within one year, each agency must submit a plan to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) naming a senior official responsible for fraud prevention and detailing how the agency will monitor payments in real time. After any emergency spending is triggered, agencies must complete a formal review of what their controls achieved and missed, and send findings to OMB within 180 days. OMB must compile all plans and after-action reviews and submit them to Congress at least once a year.

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

Congressional oversightDisaster relief and insuranceGovernment information and archivesHealth programs administration and funding

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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