Introduced
S. 452
Introduced in Senate · March 11, 2025February 6 (
legislative day
, February 5), 2025
Mr. Young (for himself and Mr. Warnock) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To require electronically prepared tax returns to include scannable code when submitted on paper, and to require the use of optical character recognition technology for paper documents received by the Internal Revenue Service.
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 “Barcode Automation for Revenue Collection to Organize Disbursement and Enhance Efficiency Act” or the “BARCODE Efficiency Act”.