To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mail paper forms to any individual who filed a paper return for the preceding taxable year.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3673.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BENISHEK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 143, October 1, 2015, Page H6788):
  Clause 1, Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution which reads: ``The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defense and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties and Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 1, 2015 ↗

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  350 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3673, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3673

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  18ba627bef1a0b72863f66563f445ce69914d354c02e980670303ccb50e11c87

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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