Legislation· May 2023Sponsored by Jason Smith (R)
Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act
Would have let states keep 25% of recovered pandemic unemployment fraud money.
Tradeoff
Would have let states keep part of recovered fraud money to pay for fraud investigations and system upgrades. Would also have extended the time to recover pandemic overpayments from 3 to 10 years.
What's in it
The House passed it 230-200 on May 11, 2023, and the Senate never voted on it before the 118th Congress ended.
House
Introduced
(Feb 24, 2023)
House
Committee on Ways and Means(Feb 24, 2023)
House
The Committee on Ways and Means voted to send it to the floor
Reported 20 - 17(Feb 28, 2023)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-34.
House
On
Failed(Roll #210 · May 11, 2023)
210 yeanay 221House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #211 · May 11, 2023)
230 yeanay 200
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
- A. Drew, IV Ferguson (R-GA)
- W. Gregory Steube (R-FL)
- Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH)
- Randy Feenstra (R-IA)
- Blake D. Moore (R-UT)
- Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX)
- Michelle Steel (R-CA)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
- Mike Carey (R-OH)
- David Kustoff (R-TN)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC)
- Adrian Smith (R-NE)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- Darin LaHood (R-IL)
- David Schweikert (R-AZ)
- Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX)
- James Comer (R-KY)
- Kevin Hern (R-OK)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
- Bill Posey (R-FL)
- George Santos (R-NY)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
- Byron Donalds (R-FL)
- J. French Hill (R-AR)
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX)
- Rudy Yakym (R-IN)
- Mike D. Rogers (R-AL)
- Brian J. Mast (R-FL)
Passage votes· May 11, 2023· 118th Congress · 2023–2025