US Congress Senate Bill 4104 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on July 1 2020 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-07-01 - Held at the desk.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Expands and otherwise modifies the sharing of death data, particularly with regard to the recovery of improper payments to deceased individuals. The bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay to states their reasonable costs for compiling and sharing records of deaths with the SSA. Under current law, the SSA is not required to pay the states but may choose to do so. In addition, the SSA may share, if certain conditions are met, the death data with federal and state agencies for a broader range of purposes. Such purposes include ensuring proper payments of benefits and tax administration duties. This authority terminates after five years. The Office of Management and Budget shall develop guidance for federal agencies that collect death data, and the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services shall jointly develop a plan to assist and states, local agencies, and Indian tribes in providing the data. Additionally, the SSA must share, within 30 days, death data with Treasury to facilitate the recovery of certain stimulus payments made to individuals who were deceased before January 1, 2020.

Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act

Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]

Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA]

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-07-01	House	Held at the desk.
2020-07-01	House	Received in the House.
2020-07-01	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2020-06-30	Senate	Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3999-4001; text: CR S3999-4001)

HB2543 (Related) 2019-05-07 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
SB1333 (Related) 2019-06-25 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4104/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4104/BILLS-116s4104es.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4104/BILLS-116s4104cps.pdf