US Congress House Bill 4172 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: Introduced on October 31 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-11-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Give A HAND Act Give Assistance and Help to Americans impacted by Natural Disasters Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow various tax credits, deductions, and modifications to existing rules in areas impacted by disasters. With respect to areas in which a federally declared disaster occurred, the bill allows: expensing of disaster expenses, increased charitable contribution limits and mileage rates, modifications to rules regarding deductions for losses, waivers of certain mortgage revenue bond requirements, increased expensing and bonus depreciation, an increased new markets tax credit allocation, penalty-free distributions from retirement plans, an additional exemption for providing housing to displaced individuals, an exclusion for cancellations of indebtedness, the use of the previous year's income for calculating the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, an increased rehabilitation credit for buildings, additional advance refundings of certain tax-exempt bonds, disaster area recovery bonds, additional low-income housing credit allocations, an exclusion for disaster mitigation payments received from state and local governments, a deduction for payments to a tax-exempt natural disaster fund, a credit for a portion of the wages paid to employees, an exclusion for employer-provided housing, an enhanced deduction for medical expenses, and extensions for tax and Medicare filing deadlines. The bill also modifies several deductions, credits, and other tax provisions that affect Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Give A HAND Act Give Assistance and Help to Americans impacted by Natural Disasters Act

Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]
Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]
Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]
Rep. Stacey Plaskett [D-VI]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-11-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-10-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
2017-10-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
2017-10-31	House	Introduced in House

HB3679 (Related) 2017-09-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB1403 (Related) 2017-03-07 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB2530 (Related) 2017-05-18 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB4060 (Related) 2017-10-12 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4172/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4172/BILLS-115hr4172ih.pdf