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H.R. 5141: Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act

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H.R. 5141: Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act

111th Congress · introduced 2010-04-26 · Taxation · Latest: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Lungren. Petition No: 111-13. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis13.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2010-04-26 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Lungren. Petition No: 111-13. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis13.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act

Plain summary

Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal a provision (added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that extends to corporations that are not tax-exempt the requirement to report payments of $600 or more.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3] · 179 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Joe Wilson (R-SC), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), John R. Carter (R-TX), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Sam Graves (R-MO), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), John Boozman (R-AR), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA) and 119 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-hr5141 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111