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Main Subject: Finance and financial sector

Protect our Checks Act of 2020

This bill prohibits the transference or assignment of a 2020 recovery rebate by legal process, including attachment, levy, or garnishment. Additionally, credit unions and depository institutions are prohibited from seizing a rebate to pay an amount due to them. A 2020 recovery rebate is a stimulus payment made to individual taxpayers and their dependents who have been affected by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.

House floor actions Actions

IntroReferral

May. 13
2020

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
May. 13 2020	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House bill HR6850-116

To protect stimulus checks from garnishment and fees and from being used as an offset by a credit union or depository institution, and for other purposes.

House bill HR6850-116

To protect stimulus checks from garnishment and fees and from being used as an offset by a credit union or depository institution, and for other purposes.

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