[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1101 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1101
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the Bureau of the
Fiscal Service within the Department of the Treasury, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 6, 2025
Ms. Stevens (for herself, Mr. Casten, Mr. Whitesides, Ms. Velazquez,
Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Adams, Mr.
Pallone, Mr. Frost, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. Norton, Mr. Larson of
Connecticut, Mr. Subramanyam, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Titus,
Mr. Meeks, Mr. Garcia of California, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Amo, Ms.
Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Turner of Texas, Mr.
Courtney, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Landsman, Mr.
Deluzio, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Soto, Mr.
Connolly, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. McClellan, Ms.
Schakowsky, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Panetta, Mr.
Thanedar, Mr. Peters, Mr. Lieu, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mr.
Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Keating, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick,
Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Latimer, Mrs. Trahan, Ms. Budzinski, Ms.
Tlaib, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Carson, Mr. Stanton,
Mr. Vargas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Mannion, Mr. Takano, Ms. Craig, Ms.
Matsui, Mr. Cohen, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Pressley, Mr.
Casar, Ms. Ansari, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. McGarvey,
Mr. Tonko, Ms. Ross, Mr. Foster, Mrs. Foushee, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Mrvan,
Ms. Brown, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Omar, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Pingree,
Mrs. McBath, Ms. Balint, Mr. Crow, Mr. Ivey, Ms. Chu, Mrs. Sykes, Mr.
Schneider, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Elfreth, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Gomez, Mrs.
Dingell, Mr. Sherman, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Levin, Mr. Thompson of
California, Ms. Pou, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Raskin, Ms. DeLauro, Mr.
Figures, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Escobar, Ms. Crockett, Mr.
Magaziner, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Himes, Ms. McDonald
Rivet, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Liccardo, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Tran,
Ms. Friedman, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Vindman, Ms. Salinas, Ms.
Leger Fernandez, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Clyburn, Ms.
Strickland, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Carbajal,
Ms. Randall, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Rivas, Mr. Aguilar, Mr.
Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Morrison, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Min,
and Mr. Castro of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the
Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as
fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the Bureau of the
Fiscal Service within the Department of the Treasury, 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 ``Taxpayer Data Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ACCESS TO PAYMENT SYSTEM OF BUREAU OF THE FISCAL
SERVICE.
Section 321 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:
``(e)(1) The Secretary may not allow any individual to use,
exercise administrative control over, or otherwise access any
Department of the Treasury public money receipt or payment system
(including any payment system of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (or
any successor thereof)), or any data from any such system, unless--
``(A) such individual is an officer, employee, or
contractor of the Department of the Treasury--
``(i) who is otherwise eligible to access such
system or data;
``(ii) whose most recent performance rating was at
the fully successful level or higher (or the equivalent
thereof); and
``(iii) who, as of the date of such access, with
respect to such an officer or employee has occupied a
position in the civil service (as that term is defined
in section 2101 of title 5), or with respect to such a
contractor has been performing under a contract with
the Department, for a period of at least one year; or
``(B) in the case of an individual not described in
subparagraph (A)--
``(i) such individual holds a security clearance at
the appropriate level with respect to such system or
data and such clearance was granted pursuant to the
procedures established under section 801 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3161));
``(ii) such individual's access to such system or
data, or use thereof, does not constitute a violation
of section 208 of title 18 (determined after the
application of paragraph (2));
``(iii) such individual is not a special Government
employee (as defined in section 202 of title 18);
``(iv) such individual's current continuous service
in the civil service (as that term is defined in
section 2101 of title 5) as of the date of such access
is for a period of at least 1 year;
``(v) such individual has completed any required
training or compliance procedures with respect to
privacy laws and cybersecurity and national security
regulations and best practices; and
``(vi) has signed a written ethics agreement with
either the Department of the Treasury or the Office of
Government Ethics.
``(2)(A) Any individual who accesses any system or data
described in paragraph (1) who is not otherwise an officer or
employee of the executive branch of the United States
Government shall be treated as an employee of the executive
branch of the United States Government for purposes of section
208 of title 18.
``(B) For purposes of such section 208, exercise of
administrative control or stopping, canceling, adjusting,
holding, rejecting, changing, or otherwise impacting any
payment or data in any Department of the Treasury public money
receipt or payment system (including any payment system of the
Bureau of the Fiscal Service (or any successor thereof)), shall
be considered personal and substantial participation as a
Government officer or employee in a particular matter.
``(3) The Inspector General of the Department of the
Treasury shall investigate, and submit a report to Congress on
such investigation, each instance of unauthorized use or other
access of any payment system described in paragraph (1). Any
such report shall be submitted not later than 30 days after any
such instance and shall include--
``(A) a detailed description of the unauthorized
use or access, including any actions the individual
carried out;
``(B) a risk assessment of any threat to privacy,
national security, cybersecurity, or the integrity of
the applicable system as a result of such unauthorized
use or access; and
``(C) a detailed description of any stopped
payments during the unauthorized use or access.''.
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