Identify and Recover Sent E-Mails Act

Identify and Recover Sent E-Mails Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) pay a cash award of $1 million to any individual or group who retrieves and submits to Congress the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during her employment with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and (2) pay a cash award of $500,000 to any individual or group who provides pertinent information sufficient for the prosecution of individuals involved in any illegal activities with respect to the destruction of the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during her employment with IRS. Directs payment of such awards from the IRS Taxpayer Services Account.

Limits the amount of funds that may be obligated for IRS employee salaries in 2014 until the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner have been recovered and submitted to Congress.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4958 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4958

 To provide monetary awards to any individual who provides information 
pertaining to the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during 
her employment at the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2014

Mr. Flores (for himself and Mr. Gohmert) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide monetary awards to any individual who provides information 
pertaining to the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during 
her employment at the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Identify and Recover Sent E-Mails 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AWARDS IN CONNECTION WITH LOIS LERNER IRS E-MAILS.

    (a) Recovery of e-mails.--Upon receipt of certification from 
Congress that an individual or group of individuals has retrieved and 
submitted to Congress the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner 
during her employment with the Internal Revenue Service, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall pay a cash award of $1,000,000 to such individual 
or group of individuals.
    (b) Destruction of e-mails.--Upon receipt of certification from the 
Attorney General that an individual or group of individuals has 
provided pertinent information sufficient for prosecution of the 
individuals involved in illegal activities (if any) with respect to the 
destruction of the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during 
her employment with the Internal Revenue Service, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall pay a cash award of $500,000 to any such individual or 
group of individuals.
    (c) Source of Funds.--The award amounts authorized under this 
section shall be derived from the unobligated amounts available for 
fiscal year 2014 in Public Law 113-76 under the heading ``Department of 
the Treasury--Internal Revenue Service--Taxpayer Services''.

SEC. 3. OBLIGATION LIMITATION ON IRS EMPLOYEE SALARIES UNTIL LOIS 
              LERNER IRS E-MAILS ARE RECOVERED.

    (a) In General.--Of the amounts made available in Public Law 113-76 
for the salaries for employees of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
more than 80 percent of such funds may be obligated during fiscal year 
2014 until the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during her 
employment with the Internal Revenue Service have been recovered and 
submitted to Congress.
    (b) Application.--The limitation provided in subsection (a) shall 
cease to apply on the date that Congress certifies to the Commissioner 
of Internal Revenue and the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management that such e-mails have been recovered.
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