House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act
Official title: To require the Internal Revenue Service to establish a fellowship program within the Internal Revenue Service to recruit qualified data scientists to partner with tax law specialists and provide insights and identify emerging and complex issues in tax administration, ranging from data acquisition and quality through developing advanced analytics, statistics, and models to improve core tax administration activities in services and enforcement.
Sponsor: Rep. David Schweikert R-AZWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 18, 2026
- Committee actionJul 1, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 8, 2026 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 706.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7972.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7972, Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act” on August 20, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on July 1, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 20, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62710
- CBO publication date
- August 20, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7972, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7972
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-807 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on September 8, 2026.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 8, 2026 ↗
Evidence
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/807
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7972, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7972
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 49, March 18, 2026, Page H2597):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2026 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7972, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7972
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert.
- H.R. 7971 (119th) Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
- H.R. 4242 (119th) Innovate Less Lethal to De-Escalate Tax Modernization Act
- H.R. 9772 (119th) Foreign Funding Transparency Act
- H.R. 2653 (119th) Manifest Modernization Act of 2025
- H.R. 10218 (119th) Advancing American Innovation Act
- H.R. 4203 (119th) WEAR IT Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.