H.R.8742 - RETURN Act was cosponsored by Randy Weber, Byron Donalds, Andrew Garbarino and Darrell Issa.
It was referred to the Ways and Means committee.
This bill prohibits Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees from teleworking during the period beginning five business days after the enactment of this bill and ending on the date on which the IRS certifies that the processing backlog for 2020 income tax returns has been eliminated.
The Department of the Treasury may not obligate additional funds for the IRS until the date on which the IRS certifies the backlog has been eliminated.
117th CONGRESS 2d Session |
To ensure that employees of the Internal Revenue Service are brought back to their offices until the backlog of 2020 tax returns has been eliminated.
August 23, 2022
Mr. Meuser (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Donalds, and Mr. Garbarino) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
To ensure that employees of the Internal Revenue Service are brought back to their offices until the backlog of 2020 tax returns has been eliminated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now Act” or the “RETURN Act”.
SEC. 2. Bringing IRS employees back to the office.
(a) In general.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of an applicable employee, such employee shall not be authorized to telework during the period—
(1) beginning on the date that is 5 business days after the date of enactment of this Act, and
(2) ending on the date on which the Commissioner of Internal Revenue certifies that the processing backlog with respect to income tax returns for taxable year 2020 has been eliminated.
(b) Definitions.—In this section—
(1) APPLICABLE EMPLOYEE.—The term “applicable employee” means an employee of the Internal Revenue Service who, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is authorized to telework, on a temporary or permanent basis, pursuant to a policy established by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19).
(2) TELEWORK.—The term “telework” has the same meaning given such term under section 6501(3) of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 3. Prohibition on obligation of funds until IRS backlog is eliminated.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate) may not obligate the funds appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service under section 10301 of the Inflation Reduction Act (Public Law 117–169) until the date described in section 2(a)(2).
You can read the bill here.
