The record

LegislationLegislation· Apr 2025
HR 1152 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Darin LaHood (R)

Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act

Treats electronically filed taxes and payments as delivered when sent, matching the postal mailbox rule.

Tradeoff

Gives taxpayers the same deadline protection for electronic filing that they have for mailed returns. No fiscal cost or revenue impact cited.

What's in it

See official bill text
H.R. 1152, Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Actwww.cbo.gov/publication/61285 · Apr 2025

Passed the House by on March 31, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Feb 10, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Ways and Means(Feb 10, 2025)

  3. House

    The Committee on Ways and Means voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 41 - 0(Feb 12, 2025)

    Committee report H. Rept. 119-45.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Mar 31, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Finance(Apr 1, 2025)