118 S155 IS: Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now Act U.S. Senate 2023-01-31 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

II118th CONGRESS1st SessionS. 155IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESJanuary 31, 2023Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on FinanceA BILLTo ensure that employees of the Internal Revenue Service are brought back to their offices until the backlog of income tax returns has been eliminated.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now Act or the RETURN Act.

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Bringing IRS employees back to the office

(a)

In general

Notwithstanding any other law, in the case of an applicable employee, such employee shall not be authorized to telework during the period—(1)beginning on the date that is 5 business days after the date of enactment of this Act, and(2)ending on the date on which the Commissioner of Internal Revenue certifies that the processing backlog with respect to income tax returns has been eliminated.(b)

Definitions

In this section—(1)

Applicable employee

The term applicable employee means an employee of the Internal Revenue Service who, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is authorized to telework, on a temporary or permanent basis, pursuant to a policy established by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19).(2)

Telework

The term telework has the same meaning given such term under section 6501(3) of title 5, United States Code.