[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 64 (Thursday, April 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:11 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2905. An act to require the Attorney General and the 
     Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress on efforts to 
     combat identity theft, including by persons purporting to be 
     acting on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 5444. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to modernize and improve the Internal Revenue Service, 
     to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent 
     the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grant program, 
     to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a 
     program for the issuance of identity protection personal 
     identification numbers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to allow officers and employees of the Department of the 
     Treasury to provide to taxpayers information regarding low-
     income taxpayer clinics, to provide for a single point of 
     contact at the Internal Revenue Service for the taxpayers who 
     are victims of tax-related identity theft, to require notice 
     from the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of any closure 
     of a Taxpayer Assistance Center, to amend the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986 to require electronic filing of the 
     annual returns of exempt organizations and provide for making 
     such returns available for public inspection, to amend the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve cybersecurity and 
     taxpayer identity protection, and modernize the information 
     technology of the Internal Revenue Service, to amend the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restrict the immediate sale 
     of seized property by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
     perishable goods, and for other purposes.


                          Enrolled Bill Signed

  The President pro tempore (Mr. Hatch) reported that he had signed the 
following enrolled bill, which was previously signed by the Speaker of 
the House:

       S. 167. An act to designate a National Memorial to Fallen 
     Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, 
     Kansas.

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