IB Union Calendar No. 28 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 1155 [Report No. 119–41] To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to elect to receive certain replacement refunds electronically. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY10, 2025 Ms. M ALLIOTAKIS(for herself, Ms. SEWELL, and Mr. KUSTOFF) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means M ARCH27, 2025 Additional sponsor: Mr. I SSA M ARCH27, 2025 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 10, 2025] VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:25 Mar 27, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6652 E:\BILLS\H1155.RH H1155 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 1155 RH A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax- payers to elect to receive certain replacement refunds electronically. VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:25 Mar 27, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6652 E:\BILLS\H1155.RH H1155 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 1155 RH Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Recovery of Stolen 4 Checks Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. ELECTION TO RECEIVE CERTAIN REPLACEMENT RE-6 FUNDS ELECTRONICALLY. 7 (a) I NGENERAL.—Section 6402 of the Internal Rev-8 enue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the 9 following new subsection: 10 ‘‘(o) E LECTION TORECEIVECERTAINREPLACEMENT 11 R EFUNDS BYDIRECTDEPOSIT.—Not later than the date 12 which is 6 months after the date of the enactment of this 13 subsection, the Secretary shall prescribe regulations to es-14 tablish procedures to allow for taxpayers, which are other-15 wise eligible to receive an amount by paper check in re-16 placement of a lost or stolen paper check which was pre-17 viously sent by the Secretary as a refund of an overpayment 18 of tax, to elect to receive such amount by direct deposit in 19 lieu of receiving such replacement paper check.’’. 20 (b) E FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by this 21 section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this 22 Act. 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:25 Mar 27, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6203 E:\BILLS\H1155.RH H1155 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS Union Calendar No. 28 119 TH CONGRESS 1 ST S ESSION H. R. 1155 [Report No. 119–41] A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to elect to receive certain replace- ment refunds electronically. M ARCH 27, 2025 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com- mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:25 Mar 27, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6651 Sfmt 6651 E:\BILLS\H1155.RH H1155 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS