[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1953 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1953

  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit incarcerated 
           individuals from receiving 2021 recovery rebates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2021

  Mr. Steil (for himself, Mr. Perry, Mr. Gallagher, and Mr. Grothman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit incarcerated 
           individuals from receiving 2021 recovery rebates.

    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 ``No Taxpayer-Funded Checks for 
Prisoners Act''.

SEC. 2. INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS PRECLUDED FROM 2021 RECOVERY REBATES.

    (a) In General.--Section 6428B(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 (as added by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) is amended by 
striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (2), by redesignating 
paragraph (3) as paragraph (4), and by inserting after paragraph (2) 
the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) any individual who was incarcerated in a Federal 
        prison on the date of the enactment of the American Rescue Plan 
        Act of 2021, and''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of section 9601 of the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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