Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee Bills & Legislation (Page 8)

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Us Congress House Bill HB561

Introduced
1/20/25  
Overtime Pay Tax Relief Act of 2025This bill allows a tax deduction for overtime compensation received by an individual, subject to income limitations, through 2029. The amount of the deduction may not exceed 20% of the individual’s regular wages from the same employer. Further, the deduction is not allowed for an individual with adjusted gross income exceeding $100,000 (or $150,000 for a head of the household and $200,000 for a married couple filing a joint return).  
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Us Congress House Bill HB557

Introduced
1/20/25  
Working Class Bonus Tax Relief Act of 2025This bill allows a tax deduction for bonuses received by an individual, subject to income limitations, through 2029. The amount of the deduction may not exceed 15% of the individual’s regular wages from the same employer. Further, the deduction is not allowed for individuals with annual adjusted gross income exceeding $100,000 (or $150,000 for heads of the household and $200,000 for married couples filing a joint return).  
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Us Congress House Bill HB574

Introduced
1/21/25  
ALIGN Act Accelerate Long-term Investment Growth Now Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB579

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care.The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.
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Us Congress House Bill HB571

Introduced
1/21/25  
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Us Congress House Bill HB591

Introduced
1/21/25  
Defending American Jobs and Investment Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB570

Introduced
1/21/25  
This bill expands the definition of a qualifying child to include a stillborn child for purposes of the child tax credit. (Under current law, taxpayers may claim a tax credit of up $2,000 for each qualifying child.)Under the bill, a stillborn child is an unborn child (1) carried in the womb for a gestational period of 20 weeks or more, and (2) delivered after the spontaneous intrauterine fetal demise of the child.
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Us Congress House Bill HJR25

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/26/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Enrolled
4/1/25  
Passed
4/10/25  
Chaptered
4/10/25  
This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales and issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on December 30, 2024. The rule generally requires persons effectuating decentralized financial (DeFi) transactions to report certain information regarding digital asset sales to the IRS.
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Us Congress House Bill HB593

Introduced
1/21/25  
Strengthening Pathways to Health Professions Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB547

Introduced
1/16/25  
No Child Tax Credit for Illegals Act of 2025This bill extends and expands the Social Security number (SSN) identification requirements for claiming the child tax credit. The bill also provides that the omission of a correct SSN related to a child tax credit claim is to be treated as a mathematical error for certain purposes.Under current law, to claim the child tax credit, a taxpayer must provide a work-authorized SSN (issued prior to the due date of the federal income tax return) for each qualifying child. Beginning in 2026, to claim the child tax credit, a taxpayer must provide a valid taxpayer identification number (issued on or before the due date of the federal income tax return) for each qualifying child.Under the bill, to claim the child tax credit, a taxpayer must provide a work-authorized SSN (issued before the due date of the federal tax return) for (1) each qualifying child; and (2) the taxpayer, the taxpayer and the taxpayer’s spouse (if filing jointly), or either the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse (if either is a member of the Armed Forces).Finally, the bill provides that the omission of a correct SSN related to a claim for the child tax credit is a mathematical error for purposes of certain tax assessment and collection procedures. 
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Us Congress House Bill HB549

Introduced
1/16/25  
This bill repeals the business tax credit for clean fuel production beginning in 2025. (Under current law, the business tax credit for clean fuel production is available for the production and sale of qualified transportation fuel between 2025 and 2027.)
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Us Congress House Bill HB483

Introduced
1/16/25  
Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility ActThis bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay certain requirements relating to the reporting of quality measures by accountable care organizations (ACOs) and to also test alternative reporting methods for ACOs.Specifically, the CMS must delay the requirement that ACOs use a specified electronic system for reporting quality measures until January 1, 2030. Additionally, the CMS must establish a pilot program to test other digital reporting methods; ACOs that participate in the pilot program are exempt from using the existing electronic system. The CMS must also implement standards for digital reporting by January 1, 2030, that ensure all electronic health record systems used by ACOs are able to support reporting across a range of practice sizes, specialties, and geographic locations. ACOs may use existing reporting methods until the standards are implemented.
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Us Congress House Bill HB538

Introduced
1/16/25  
Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025This bill repeals the 96-hour physician-certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services under Medicare. Under current law, as a condition for Medicare payment for such services, a physician must certify that a patient may reasonably be expected to be discharged or transferred to a hospital within 96 hours after admission to the critical access hospital.
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Us Congress House Bill HB500

Introduced
1/16/25  
Medicare Hearing Aid Coverage Act of 2025This bill allows for Medicare coverage of hearing aids and related examinations.The Government Accountability Office must study programs that provide assistance for hearing aids and related examinations for individuals with hearing loss.
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Us Congress House Bill HB517

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/26/25  
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters ActThis bill authorizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to postpone federal tax deadlines for taxpayers affected by a qualified state declared disaster, upon written request by the state governor. The bill also increases the automatic extension of federal tax deadlines for certain taxpayers.Under current law, the IRS may postpone federal tax deadlines for taxpayers affected by a federally declared disaster, including (but not limited to) deadlines for (1) filing federal tax returns, (2) paying federal taxes, (3) making retirement plan contributions, and (4) tax assessments and collections.The bill authorizes the IRS to postpone such federal tax deadlines for taxpayers affected by a qualified state declared disaster upon written request by the state’s governor (or the District of Columbia mayor). Under the bill, a state includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.The bill defines qualified state declared disaster as any natural catastrophe, fire, flood, or explosion that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant a request to postpone such federal tax deadlines.Further, under current law, an automatic 60-day extension of such federal tax deadlines applies to certain relief workers, individuals killed or injured as a result of a federally declared disaster, and taxpayers whose principal residence, business, or tax records are located in a federally declared disaster area.The bill increases to 120 days the automatic extension of federal tax deadlines for these taxpayers.