The Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act, or H.R. 828, may come to a vote on the House floor as early as tomorrow.

H.R.828, targetting Federal employees who are chronically behind on paying their taxes each year was introduced by Representative Jason Chaffetz.(R-Utah)

There are roughly 100,000 federal employees that regularly miss making their taxes on time and according to Chaffetz, owed at least $1 billion in delinquent taxes from 2009.

This is up from $600 million in 2004 according to the legislator.

Even though the amount owed has risen substanially, the number of federal employees owing the taxes has remained about the same.

Current laws allow for IRS employees to be terminated from their jobs for failure to pay their taxes, this new bill will extend the law to cover all federal employees. The bill would require the Office of Personnel Management to put in place procedures to insure that federal employees will have due process. The law allows for a period of 180 days where employees can show that their tax debt is getting paid off.

Only employees that are showing seriously delinquent tax debts are being targetted under this new expansion of law. It is considered seriously delinquent if the IRS has filed a notice of lein because of owed taxes.

A two-thirds majority will be needed to pass this piece of legislation. This means in addition to all Republican House members as well as about fifty democrats will need to vote in favor to pass the bill.