Pay Victims Not Prisoners Act

Bill: 117-hr-8353
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2022-07-13
Policy area: Taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Pay Victims Not Prisoners Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits payment of any amount of the 2021 recovery rebate to federal prisoners convicted of a crime or confined due to insanity or a finding that the prisoner is a sexually dangerous person or a sexual predator. </p> <p>The bill requires (1) the disclosure of certain prisoner tax return information to the Department of Justice for purposes of making restitution to crime victims, and (2) the payment of judgments issued against prisoners using rebate amounts.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8353 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 13, 2022 Mr. Budd introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make incarcerated taxpayers ineligible for recovery rebates, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pay Victims Not Prisoners Act . 2. Incarcerated taxpayers made ineligible for 2021 recovery rebate credits (a) 2021 recovery rebates Section 6428B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections (i) and (j), respectively, by striking subsection (h)(1) each place it appears and inserting subsection (i)(1) , and by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection: (h) Special rules with respect to prisoners (1) Disallowance of credit (A) In general Subject to subparagraph (B), no credit shall be allowed under subsection (a) to an eligible individual who is, for each day during calendar year 2021, described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of section 202(x)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 402(x)(1)(A) ). (B) Joint return In the case of a joint return where 1 spouse is described in subparagraph (A), subsection (g) shall be applied by treating such spouse as having failed to include the valid identification number of such spouse on the return of tax for the taxable year. (2) Denial of advance refund or credit No refund or credit shall be made or allowed under subsection (f) with respect to any individual whom the Secretary has knowledge is, at the time of any determination made pursuant to paragraph (3) of such subsection, described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of section 202(x)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2020. 3. Disclosure of certain prisoner tax return information to Department of Justice (a) In general Section 6103(l) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (23) Disclosure of return information to Department of Justice to carry out the Pay Victims Not Prisoners Act (A) In general The Secretary shall, upon written request from the Attorney General, disclose to officers, employees, and contractors of the Department of Justice the return information of a taxpayer whose prisoner commissary account may be subject to adjustment under section 4 of the Pay Victims Not Prisoners Act . Such return information shall be limited to— (i) taxpayer identity information with respect to such taxpayer, and (ii) with respect to the refundable credit under section 6428B— (I) the amount of the refundable credit allowed to such taxpayer under such section, (II) verification of whether such refundable credit was disbursed electronically or via paper check, (III) if such refundable credit was disbursed electronically, verification of the account to which such refund was disbursed, (IV) the date on which such refund was disbursed, and (V) if applicable, the fact that there was no refund disbursed to such taxpayer with respect to such section. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall apply to disclosures made after the date of the enactment of this Act. 4. Payment of outstanding judgments against Federal prisoners using 2021 recovery rebate credits (a) Identification of prisoners who received 2021 recovery rebate credits Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall identify— (1) the Federal prisoners who received a disbursement of a refundable credit under section 6428B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which was disbursed to the prisoner’s commissary account; and (2) of the Federal prisoners identified under paragraph (1), the prisoners who owe money pursuant to a judgment issued by a Federal court. (b) Payment of outstanding judgments Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall make payments on any judgment described in subsection (a)(2) using amounts remaining in the prisoner’s commissary account from the disbursement described in subsection (a)(1).