119th Congress Taxation
H.R. 6956: BARCODE Efficiency Act
Passed House
- Introduced (completed)
- Passed House (completed)
- Passed Senate (not reached)
- To the President (not reached)
- Became law (not reached)
Summary
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use barcodes, barcode scanning technology, and optical character recognition (or similar) technology to digitize certain federal tax return information and correspondence, unless the technology is slower or less reliable than other IRS processes (subject to conditions).
Specifically, the bill requires a scannable barcode on electronically-prepared federal tax returns that are printed and filed in paper format with the IRS. The bill also requires the IRS to use barcode scanning technology to convert data included on such returns into an electronic format.
Further, the bill requires the IRS to use optical character recognition (or similar) technology to transcribe federal tax returns and correspondence received by the IRS that are not prepared electronically and are received in paper format.
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However, under the bill, the use of barcodes, barcode scanning technology, and optical character recognition (or similar) technology is not required if (1) such technology is slower or less reliable than manual transcription or any other IRS process, and (2) the IRS provides a report to Congress regarding the determination to not use such technology.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Rudy Yakym R-INOriginal
Who scored on this bill
- 1Bradley Schneider SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, marked up, reported, passed House5 events+68
- 2Rudy YakymCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
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History
- Passed the House by voice vote.
- Introduced in the House by Bradley Schneider.
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- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3100-3101)
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6956.
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3100)
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3100)
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-508.
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 434.
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.