Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act

This bill lets federal agencies pause, condition, or split a payment before it is certified when an official finds the payment carries an elevated risk of fraud or an improper loss, based on a documented fraud-risk indicator. It adds a new section 3337 to title 31 of the U.S. Code. It also lets the Treasury order a certified payment voucher returned within 2 days when the Do Not Pay system flags the payment. A pause must be based on an objective, documented indicator, applied only to the risky portion, and held for the minimum time needed to verify eligibility. Routine, historically consistent portions of a payment are allowed to proceed while only the anomalous portion is held. The agency must notify the payee within 2 days, state the reason, and give the payee a process to contest it. The agency must issue the payment within 30 days of the pause decision, and within 7 days after a payee contest, once it determines the payment is not high-risk. Federal officers are shielded from personal liability for good-faith actions under the section, and a pause does not count as a final determination of eligibility or wrongdoing. Agencies may waive the section case-by-case when a law enforcement authority says it would jeopardize an active investigation. The Treasury must issue implementing regulations within 180 days and report to Congress on the results within 18 months and annually after. The amendments take effect one year after enactment.

At least 15 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 27 quarterly reports filed by 4 lobbying firms and by 11 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

1 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 4747, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: National Council of Nonprofits; Grant Professionals Association; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; National Council of Nonprofits (Formerly Known As the National Council of Nonpro; Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 10 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.