US Congress Senate Bill 661 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Introduced on March 4 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent, to: (1) increase to $110,000, the adjusted gross income threshold level above which such credit is incrementally reduced; (2) increase the dollar limit on the allowable amount of such credit; (3) allow an inflation adjustment to the threshold amount and the maximum credit amounts, beginning after 2016; and (4) make such credit refundable.

Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act

Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-04	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

SB820 (Related) 2015-03-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB1780 (Same As) 2015-04-14 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/661/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s661/BILLS-114s661is.pdf