[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1155 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1155

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to elect 
         to receive certain replacement refunds electronically.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 2025

 Ms. Malliotakis (for herself, Ms. Sewell, and Mr. Kustoff) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to elect 
         to receive certain replacement refunds electronically.

    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 ``Recovery of Stolen Checks Act''.

SEC. 2. ELECTION TO RECEIVE CERTAIN REPLACEMENT REFUNDS ELECTRONICALLY.

    (a) In General.--Section 6402 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(o) Election To Receive Certain Replacement Refunds by Direct 
Deposit.--Not later than the date which is 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall prescribe 
regulations to establish procedures to allow for taxpayers, which are 
otherwise eligible to receive an amount by paper check in replacement 
of a lost or stolen paper check which was previously sent by the 
Secretary as a refund of an overpayment of tax, to elect to receive 
such amount by direct deposit in lieu of receiving such replacement 
paper check.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this subsection shall 
take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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