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The bill strengthens antifraud training, transparency, and program capacity to reduce improper payments, but does so at modest federal cost while imposing training, tracking, and potential grant-conditionality burdens that could strain agencies and delay funds to state/local/Tribal recipients.
Federal, State, local, territorial, and Tribal program administrators and financial officials will receive standardized antifraud training and technical assistance, helping reduce improper payments in federally funded programs.
OPM certification, recordkeeping of training completion, and annual reporting to Congress increase accountability and transparency, improving oversight of antifraud efforts.
Authorizing dedicated funding (up to $5 million annually to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service) provides resources to run and maintain the Program and deliver technical assistance.
Conditioning federal grants on Program completion could impose administrative burdens on State, local, territorial, and Tribal entities and potentially delay access to federal funds and services.
Covered federal employees and officials will face mandatory training requirements (initial within 180 days and biennially thereafter), which will take staff time and may divert resources from other duties.
Implementing, certifying, and tracking training across federal, state, local, territorial, and Tribal levels may create administrative complexity and require agencies to allocate resources to manage compliance.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires Treasury and OMB to create a government-wide antifraud and improper payment training program, mandates training for specified officials, and authorizes $5M/year to support it.
Creates a government-wide antifraud and improper payment training program run by Treasury and OMB (with OPM consultation) and requires key federal program administrators and financial/oversight officials to complete the training within specified timeframes and every two years thereafter. OPM will certify and track completion; Treasury will offer the program to state, local, territorial, and Tribal partners, can tie grant conditions to training completion, and must provide technical assistance. Authorizes $5,000,000 annually beginning in FY2027 for the Bureau of the Fiscal Service to support the program, requires reporting to congressional oversight committees within two years and annually after, and generally takes effect 180 days after enactment with Treasury able to issue implementing regulations by that date.
Introduced April 22, 2026 by Glenn Grothman · Last progress June 9, 2026