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HR 998

119th Congress

Latest action 2025-11-25: Became Public Law No: 119-39.

This bill number also appears in other loaded Congresses: 118th, 117th, 116th, 115th, 114th, 113th, 112th, 111th, 110th, 109th, 108th (bill numbers are reused each Congress, so these are different bills).

Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act bill

introduced
2025-02-05
policy area
Taxation
cosponsors
1
lobbying filings citing it
10
money facing its subject
the record
congress.gov
4 CRS legislative subjects, as written

Congressional oversight, Income tax rates, Tax administration and collection, taxpayers, Tax reform and tax simplification

Actions: 26 on the record

The record's own timeline, word for word, newest first. An action that names a committee links to it.

datetypeaction, as writtencommittee
2025-02-05 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-02-05 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-02-05 IntroReferral Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-02-12 Committee Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-02-12 Committee Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 0. House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-03-27 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-42. House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-03-27 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-42. House Committee on Ways and Means
2025-03-27 Calendars Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 29.
2025-03-31 Floor Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2025-03-31 Floor Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1348-1349)
2025-03-31 Floor DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 998.
2025-03-31 Floor Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1348-1349)
2025-03-31 Floor On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1348-1349)
2025-03-31 Floor Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2025-04-01 IntroReferral Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Senate Committee on Finance
2025-10-20 Committee Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent. Senate Committee on Finance
2025-10-20 Discharge Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent. Senate Committee on Finance
2025-10-20 Floor Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
2025-10-20 Floor Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7168-7169)
2025-10-23 Floor Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2025-11-25 President Presented to President.
2025-11-25 Floor Presented to President.
2025-11-25 BecameLaw Signed by President.
2025-11-25 President Signed by President.
2025-11-25 BecameLaw Became Public Law No: 119-39.
2025-11-25 President Became Public Law No: 119-39.

Cosponsors: 1

In order of signing; an original cosponsor signed on introduction day. A withdrawal stays on the record, marked, never deleted.

memberpartystatesigned
Bradley Scott Schneider Democrat IL 2025-02-05 original

Lobbying: 10 filings cite this bill

Filings whose specific-issues text cites the bill, as the filers typed it ("H.R. 998"). The LDA does not disclose positions on a bill (support or oppose), so none appear here; a filing is attributed to a Congress by its filing year. Counts, never dollars. ‡ lobbying estimates

registrant, as filedfilings citing ityears
AICPA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS 10 2025 to 2026
client, as filedfilings citing ityears
AICPA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS 10 2025 to 2026

Money facing this bill

A giver's face is the list of subjects its organization lobbies Congress on, read from its own lobbying reports and spread by how often each subject comes up; a gift from someone who works there is spread the same way.

$58k

measureMoney facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3

subjectTaxation

members counted2

members with a candidacy in 20262

this row as datathe stored row

from individual donors whose organizations lobby on Taxation, the bill's policy area, reached the 2 members who sponsor or cosponsor it, in the 2026 cycle, more than 40% of Taxation bills. From PACs whose sponsors lobby on it: $259k, counted separately.

This is money tied to the bill's subject, not money given for or against the bill. It shows what an organization lobbies on, not what position it takes, and no gift is tied to a bill.

The members it reached, and who gave it

The organizations are each member's three largest on this subject. A group of organizations is shown by name only after a person has reviewed it.

Lobbying clients that named this bill in their filings
ClientFilingsIts face on Taxation
AICPA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS 10
27%

what it isthe share of this client's lobbying activity on the subject

face window2025-2026

its face and filingsopen the evidence

Money facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3 · ‡ self-reported text ‡ small donors invisible ‡ lobbying estimates

Votes: 0 roll calls tied to this bill by the chambers' own documents

No roll call in the loaded votes ties to this bill. A vote whose document reference did not parse to a bill keeps its reference as filed and cannot appear here. ‡ votes, not motives

Coverage: bills are loaded for Congresses 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. We have not collected a Congress missing from that list, so its bills do not show here even though they exist. Lobbying citations cover the LDA years we collected; votes cover the loaded roll-call files. ‡ correlation, not purchase ‡ lobbying estimates ‡ votes, not motives