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S 1074 115th Congress Senate

Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide uniform standards for the use of electronic signatures for third-party disclosure authorizations.

Introduced: May 9, 2017 See on congress.gov
Taxation Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of the TreasuryGovernment information and archivesTax administration and collection, taxpayers
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May 9, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 9, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 9, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance to establish uniform standards and procedures for the acceptance of practitioner signatures in digital or other electronic form for the purposes of: (1) disclosures of tax returns and return information to a designee of the taxpayer, and (2) any power of attorney executed by the taxpayer.

 Related & companion bills 4
  • S 3278 Related bill Protecting Taxpayers Act
  • HR 7227 Related bill Taxpayer First Act of 2018
  • HR 5445 Related bill 21st Century IRS Act
  • HR 3153 Identical bill Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Bennet, Michael F.
Colorado · May 9, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1074: Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1074/
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"S. 1074: Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1074/.
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S. 1074, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1074/.
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