[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3385 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3385

To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the 
  Treasury to provide for the purchase of paper United States savings 
                        bonds with tax refunds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 30, 2013

  Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Jones, Mr. Olson, Ms. 
Tsongas, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Lee of 
    California, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Esty, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Enyart, Mr. 
Conyers, Mr. Holt, Mr. Engel, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. McGovern, 
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Owens, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. Fattah, Mr. 
    Tonko, and Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the 
  Treasury to provide for the purchase of paper United States savings 
                        bonds with tax refunds.

    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 ``Save Access to a Valuable Investment 
Needed to Generate Savings Act of 2013'' or the ``SAVINGS Act''.

SEC. 2. PURCHASE PAPER UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS WITH TAX REFUND.

    Section 3106 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) During the period ending on December 31, 2018, the 
Secretary shall provide an option on individual returns of tax under 
subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to purchase United 
States savings bonds in paper form with a portion or all of a refund of 
overpayment of such tax for the purchaser or anyone.
    ``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply if the Secretary implements an 
alternative option which--
            ``(A) allows for the gifting of United States savings 
        bonds,
            ``(B) serves the unbanked, and
            ``(C) retains the ability to sign-up on the return of 
        tax.''.
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