Preventing Rip-offs and Obtaining Oversight of Funds Act
PROOF Act
Latest action (Sep 17, 2026) — Received in the Senate and Read twice and on the Judiciary.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Sep 10, 2026Preventing Rip-offs and Obtaining Oversight of Funds Act or the PROOF Act
This bill requires states to provide such information as the Department of Justice (DOJ) may require for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting alleged fraud committed with regard to certain federally funded programs.
Programs covered by this requirement include:
Medicaid,Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF),certain federal payments and grants to state governments related to the coronavirus response, andany other program to which funds are made available to states and identified by DOJ as vulnerable to fraud.A federal agency may only use such information for law enforcement purposes related to fraud and may not disclose it for any unrelated administrative or commercial purpose.
DOJ must annually report to Congress on the number of requests for information issued to state agencies under this bill, the programs with respect to which such requests were made, and the number of fraud investigations initiated and convictions secured using the information obtained.
Face Value
as introducedHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
1 recordeddecisive vote
House · Sep 16, 2026
Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.
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