Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
Latest action · Jun 25, 2019 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 6, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
This 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.
The SSA may share the death data with federal and state agencies for various purposes. Such purposes include ensuring proper payments of benefits and tax administration duties.
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.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 6, 2019 to Jun 30, 2020, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I-ME | Angus S. King Jr. | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| R-LA | John Kennedy | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| D-VA | Mark R. Warner | Original | May 6, 2019 |
| R-FL | Marco Rubio | May 7, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Rick Scott | Jul 29, 2019 | |
| R-IN | Mike Braun | Jun 29, 2020 | |
| R-MT | Steve Daines | Jun 30, 2020 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Jun 30, 2020 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2019Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-49.
- Jun 25, 2019Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.
- May 15, 2019Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- May 6, 2019Introduced in Senate
- May 6, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2543 | Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act | Identical bill | May 7, 2019 |
| S 4104 | Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act | Related bill | Jul 1, 2020 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Congressional oversight
- Debt collection
- Government information and archives
- Health information and medical records
- Intergovernmental relations
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Social Welfare
- State and local government operations
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2019Reported to Senate
- May 6, 2019Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
