Official Summaries

Taxpayer Data Protection Act

This bill restricts access to any public money receipt or payment system belonging to the Department of the Treasury.

Specifically, access is limited to authorized Treasury officers, employees, or contractors meeting certain performance standards who have held a qualified position for at least a year, or who hold other qualifications as provided by the bill. The bill specifically prohibits special government employees (i.e., temporary appointees hired to perform specific tasks) from having access to such systems. The bill also provides that an individual accessing such systems shall be treated as an executive branch employee for purposes of federal criminal conflict of interest laws. 

Treasury's Office of Inspector General must investigate and report on each instance of unauthorized use or other access of such payment systems.

Current Full Text

[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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