# H.R. 8466 (119th): Taxpayer Resources Used in Emergencies Accountability Act or the TRUE Accountability Act

Taxpayer Resources Used in Emergencies Accountability Act or the TRUE Accountability Act This 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: emergency_spending. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: fraud_prevention. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: government_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: improper_payments. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 208: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure is a prudential good-government bill. It aims to restrain fraud and improper payments of public money, which supports honest stewardship, but it does not directly restrain evil or defend justice in the way that protection of life, abuse accountability, or limits on coercive power would. Its operative mechanisms are administrative planning, guidance, and reporting, so it is best read as mixed or prudential rather than morally decisive.
Theological note: The bill concerns stewardship of public funds and the prevention of fraud and waste in emergency spending. Scripture's concern for honest weights, faithful stewardship, and protection against theft gives general relevance to measures that guard taxpayer resources, while the bill itself is administrative and does not directly advance or restrain a morally grave act.

## Recorded votes

Roll 208: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 384 · Nay 0 · Other 46.

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