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H.R. 3500 - Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2017

JUL. 27, 2017

H.R. 3500; Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2017

DATED JUL. 27, 2017
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115TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION

H.R. 3500

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the Commissioner
of the Internal Revenue Service from rehiring any employee of the Internal
Revenue Service who was involuntarily separated from service for misconduct.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 27, 2017

Mrs. NOEM (for herself, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. RICE of South Carolina, and Mrs. BLACK)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from rehiring any employee of the Internal Revenue Service who was involuntarily separated from service for misconduct.

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 "Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2017".

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REHIRING ANY EMPLOYEE OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE WHO WAS INVOLUNTARILY SEPARATED FROM SERVICE FOR MISCONDUCT.

(a) IN GENERAL. — Section 7804 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

"(d) PROHIBITION ON REHIRING EMPLOYEES INVOLUNTARILY SEPARATED. — The Commissioner may not hire any individual previously employed by the Commissioner who was removed for misconduct under this subchapter or chapter 43 or chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code, or whose employment was terminated under section 1203 of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (26 U.S.C. 7804 note).".

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. — The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the hiring of employees after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.

No additional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements of this Act and the amendments made by this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized.

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