Recovery of Stolen Checks Act passed the House 49 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
IntroducedFeb 10, 2025
ReportedFeb 12, 2025
Passed one chamberMar 31, 2025
Passed both—
Law—
What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 71 words.
Recovery of Stolen Checks Act This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish procedures that allow an eligible taxpayer to elect to receive by direct deposit a replacement of a federal tax refund amount that was originally issued as a paper check and was lost or stolen. (Currently, taxpayers eligible to receive a replacement of a lost or stolen federal tax refund check are generally issued another paper check.)
Context
- Committees
- House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee - Policy area
- Taxation: 20 of 6,214 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.3%)
- Sponsor
- 0 of 120 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 4, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 161 words
- Subjects
- Bank accounts, deposits, capitalTax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Latest action
- Apr 1, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 2449 Recovery of Stolen Checks Act R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]