Title: Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2019
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of  2019
This bill prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from rehiring former IRS employees who were involuntarily separated for misconduct.
The bill generally applies with respect to any employee removed from employment before, on, or after the date of enactment of this bill. It does not apply to any employee who is employed by the IRS as of the enactment of this bill with respect to any removal for misconduct which occurred prior to enactment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1115 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1115

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the Commissioner 
   of the Internal Revenue Service from rehiring any employee of the 
 Internal Revenue Service who was involuntarily separated from service 
                            for misconduct.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2019

    Mr. Burr (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Enzi) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the Commissioner 
   of the Internal Revenue Service from rehiring any employee of the 
 Internal Revenue Service who was involuntarily separated from service 
                            for misconduct.

    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 ``Ensuring Integrity in the IRS 
Workforce Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REHIRING FORMER IRS EMPLOYEES WHO WERE 
              INVOLUNTARILY SEPARATED FOR MISCONDUCT.

    (a) In General.--Section 7804 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Prohibition on Rehiring Employees Involuntarily Separated.--
The Commissioner may not employ any individual previously employed by 
the Commissioner who was removed for misconduct under this subchapter 
or chapter 43 or chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code, or whose 
employment was terminated under section 1203 of the Internal Revenue 
Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (26 U.S.C. 7804 note).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to 
        any employee removed from employment before, on, or after the 
        date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Exception.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
        not apply to any employee who is employed by the Internal 
        Revenue Service as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
        with respect to any removal for misconduct which occurred 
        before such date.
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