[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 56 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 56

   To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the 
    Committee on Ways and Means to include in committee reports the 
     identity, sponsor, and revenue cost of single-taxpayer relief 
                provisions contained in reported bills.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 1995

 Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania submitted the following resolution; which 
                 was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the 
    Committee on Ways and Means to include in committee reports the 
     identity, sponsor, and revenue cost of single-taxpayer relief 
                provisions contained in reported bills.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Targeted Tax Relief 
Disclosure Resolution of 1995''.

SEC. 2. IDENTITY, SPONSOR, AND REVENUE COST OF SINGLE-TAXPAYER RELIEF 
              PROVISIONS REQUIRED TO BE REPORTED.

    Clause 4 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
    ``(j) The report accompanying each bill or joint resolution of a 
public character reported by the Committee on Ways and Means shall 
identify--
            ``(1) each provision (if any) of the bill or joint 
        resolution which is intended to provide special benefits with 
        respect to 5 or fewer taxpayers, transactions, events, items of 
        property, projects, or issuances of bonds,
            ``(2) the identity of each beneficiary (known by the 
        Committee) of such provision,
            ``(3) the Member or Members of Congress who sponsored the 
        inclusion of each such beneficiary in such provision, and
            ``(4) an estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation of the 
        loss in revenues resulting from such provision with respect to 
        each such beneficiary for the fiscal year for which such loss 
        in revenues first occurs and each of the 5 fiscal years 
        thereafter.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall apply to bills and joint 
resolutions reported after the date of the adoption of this resolution.

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