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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1611
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable tax
credit for certain teachers as a supplement to State efforts to provide
teachers with a livable wage, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY26, 2025
Mrs. H
AYES(for herself, Mr. LARSONof Connecticut, Mr. TAKANO, Ms.
S
CANLON, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. CHERFILUS-
M
CCORMICK, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. TLAIB, Ms.
E
LFRETH, Ms. ANSARI, Ms. BYNUM, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. NORTON, Ms.
G
ARCIAof Texas, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. LATIMER, Mr. FIELDS, Mr.
W
HITESIDES, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. MCGARVEY, and
Mr. P
OCAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Workforce, 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
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide
a refundable tax credit for certain teachers as a supple-
ment to State efforts to provide teachers with a livable
wage, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Respect, Advancement, 2
and Increasing Support for Educators Act of 2025’’ or 3
the ‘‘RAISE Act of 2025’’. 4
SEC. 2. REFUNDABLE TEACHER TAX CREDIT. 5
(a) A
LLOWANCE OFTAXCREDIT.— 6
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Subpart C of part IV of sub-7
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code 8
of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 36B 9
the following new section: 10
‘‘SEC. 36C. TEACHER TAX CREDIT. 11
‘‘(a) C
REDITALLOWED.—In the case of an individual 12
who is an eligible educator during school years ending with 13
or within the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a cred-14
it against the tax imposed by this chapter an amount 15
equal to the sum of— 16
‘‘(1) $1,000, plus 17
‘‘(2) in the case of an eligible educator who is 18
employed at a qualifying school, the applicable 19
amount. 20
‘‘(b) A
PPLICABLEAMOUNT.—For purposes of sub-21
section (a), the applicable amount is the amount which 22
bears the same ratio (not to exceed one) to $14,000 23
($9,000, in the case of any early childhood educator with-24
out a bachelor’s degree) as— 25
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‘‘(1) the number of percentage points by which 1
the student poverty ratio for such qualifying school 2
exceeds 39 percent, bears to 3
‘‘(2) 36 percentage points. 4
‘‘(c) E
LIGIBLEEDUCATOR.—For purposes of this 5
section— 6
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘eligible educator’ 7
means— 8
‘‘(A) any elementary or secondary teacher, 9
and 10
‘‘(B) any early childhood educator. 11
‘‘(2) E
LEMENTARY OR SECONDARY TEACHER .— 12
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘elementary 13
or secondary teacher’ means an individual 14
who— 15
‘‘(i) is a teacher of record who pro-16
vides direct classroom teaching (or class-17
room-type teaching in a nonclassroom set-18
ting) in a public elementary school or a 19
public secondary school for not less than 20
75 percent of the normal or statutory 21
number of hours of work for a full-time 22
teacher over a complete school year (as de-23
termined by the State in which the school 24
is located), 25
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‘‘(ii) meets the applicable require-1
ments for State certification and licensure 2
in the State in which such school is located 3
in the subject area in which the individual 4
is the teacher of record, and 5
‘‘(iii) has met the requirements of 6
clauses (i) and (ii) for a period of not less 7
than 1 year before the first day of the tax-8
able year. 9
‘‘(B) T
EACHER OF RECORD .—For pur-10
poses of subparagraph (A), the term ‘teacher of 11
record’ means a teacher who has been assigned 12
the responsibility for specified pupils’ learning 13
in a grade, subject, or course as reflected on the 14
school’s official record of attendance. 15
‘‘(3) E
ARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR .—The 16
term ‘early childhood educator’ means an individual 17
who— 18
‘‘(A) has a Child Development Associate 19
credential (or an equivalent credential), or has 20
an associate’s degree or higher, 21
‘‘(B) meets the applicable requirements for 22
State certification, licensure, or permitting 23
under State law for early childhood education, 24
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‘‘(C) has primary responsibility for the 1
learning and development of children in an 2
early childhood education program (as defined 3
in section 103 of the Higher Education Act of 4
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) for not less than 75 5
percent of the normal or statutory number of 6
hours of work for a full-time teacher over a 7
complete program year, as determined by the 8
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and 9
‘‘(D) has met the requirements of subpara-10
graphs (A), (B), and (C) for a period of not 11
less than 1 year before the first day of the tax-12
able year. 13
‘‘(d) Q
UALIFYINGSCHOOL.— 14
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘qualifying 15
school’ means, with respect to any school year— 16
‘‘(A) a public elementary school or a public 17
secondary school that— 18
‘‘(i) is served by a local educational 19
agency that is eligible in such year for as-20
sistance pursuant to part A of title I of the 21
Elementary and Secondary Education Act 22
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.), or 23
‘‘(ii) is served by an educational serv-24
ice agency, or a location operated by an 25
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educational service agency, that is eligible, 1
for the year in which the determination is 2
made, for assistance under part A of title 3
I of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-4
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 5
seq.), 6
‘‘(B) an elementary school or secondary 7
school that is funded by the Bureau of Indian 8
Education, or 9
‘‘(C) an early childhood education program 10
(as defined in section 103 of the Higher Edu-11
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) that 12
serves children who receive, or are eligible for, 13
services for which financial assistance is pro-14
vided in accordance with the Child Care and 15
Development Block Grant of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 16
9857 et seq.) or the child and adult care food 17
program established under section 17 of the 18
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 19
(42 U.S.C. 1766). 20
‘‘(2) ESEA
DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of 21
this subsection, the terms ‘educational service agen-22
cy’, ‘elementary school’, ‘local educational agency’, 23
‘secondary school’, and ‘State educational agency’ 24
have the meanings given such terms in section 8101 25
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of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 2
‘‘(e) S
TUDENTPOVERTYRATIO.— 3
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘student poverty 4
ratio’ means— 5
‘‘(A) with respect to any qualifying school 6
described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of sub-7
section (d)(1), the ratio (expressed as a per-8
centage) of— 9
‘‘(i) the total number of children 10
served at such qualifying school meeting at 11
least one measure of poverty described in 12
section 1113(a)(5) of the Elementary and 13
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 14
U.S.C. 6313(a)(5)), to 15
‘‘(ii) the total number of children 16
served at such qualifying school, and 17
‘‘(B) with respect to any qualifying school 18
described in subsection (d)(1)(C), the ratio (ex-19
pressed as a percentage) of— 20
‘‘(i) the total number of children at-21
tending such qualifying school who are eli-22
gible for services under the Child Care and 23
Development Block Grant of 1990 (42 24
U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) or for the child and 25
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adult care food program established under 1
section 17 of the Richard B. Russell Na-2
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 3
to 4
‘‘(ii) the total number of children at-5
tending such qualifying school. 6
‘‘(2) D
ETERMINATION OF RATIO .—In deter-7
mining the student poverty ratio with respect to a 8
qualifying school under paragraph (1)(A), the Sec-9
retary shall use the same measure of poverty as is 10
used for purposes of determining the allocation of 11
funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and 12
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 13
et seq.) with respect to the qualifying school. 14
‘‘(f) I
NFLATIONADJUSTMENT.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—In the case of any taxable 16
year beginning after 2026, each of the dollar 17
amounts in subsections (a) and (b) shall be in-18
creased by an amount equal to— 19
‘‘(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by 20
‘‘(B) the cost-of-living adjustment deter-21
mined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar 22
year in which the taxable year begins, deter-23
mined by substituting in subparagraph (A)(ii) 24
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thereof ‘calendar year 2025’ for ‘calendar year 1
2016’. 2
‘‘(2) R
OUNDING.—If any increase determined 3
under paragraph (1) is not a multiple of $50, such 4
increase shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5
$50.’’. 6
(2) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 7
(A) The table of sections for subpart C of 8
part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the In-9
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by in-10
serting after the item relating to section 36B 11
the following new item: 12
‘‘Sec. 36C. Teacher tax credit.’’.
(B) Section 6211(b)(4)(A) of such Code is 13
amended by inserting ‘‘36C,’’ after ‘‘36B,’’. 14
(C) Section 1324(b)(2) of title 31, United 15
States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘36C,’’ 16
after ‘‘36B,’’. 17
(b) I
NFORMATIONSHARING.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Education 19
shall— 20
(A) collect such information as necessary 21
for purposes of determining whether a school is 22
a qualifying school (as defined in section 36C of 23
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added 24
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by subsection (a)) and the appropriate amount 1
of tax credit under such section; and 2
(B) provide such information to the Sec-3
retary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s dele-4
gate). 5
(2) I
NFORMATION FOR THE SECRETARY OF 6
EDUCATION.—As a condition of receiving Federal 7
funds and if requested by the Secretary of Edu-8
cation, each qualifying school shall collect and sub-9
mit to the Secretary of Education such information 10
as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Edu-11
cation to carry out paragraph (1). 12
(c) S
UPPLEMENTATION OF FUNDS.— 13
(1) E
LEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDU -14
CATION.—A State educational agency or local edu-15
cational agency (as such terms are defined in section 16
8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 17
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) shall not reduce or 18
adjust any teacher pay or teacher loan forgiveness 19
program due to the eligibility of teachers within the 20
jurisdiction of such agency for the tax credit under 21
section 36C of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 22
Each State educational agency and local educational 23
agency (as so defined), upon request by the Sec-24
retary of the Treasury, shall demonstrate that the 25
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methodology used to allocate teacher pay and teach-1
er loan forgiveness (if applicable) to qualifying 2
schools (as defined in section 36C(d) of such Code) 3
ensures that each such school receives the same 4
State and local funds for teacher compensation it 5
would receive if the credit under such section 36C 6
had not been enacted. 7
(2) E
ARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION .—An agen-8
cy or other entity that funds, licenses, or regulates 9
an early childhood education program (as defined in 10
section 103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 11
(20 U.S.C. 1003)) shall not reduce or adjust any 12
teacher pay or teacher loan forgiveness program, or 13
permit such a reduction or adjustment in the early 14
childhood education program, due to the eligibility of 15
teachers within the jurisdiction of such agency for 16
the tax credit under section 36C of the Internal Rev-17
enue Code of 1986. Each such agency or entity, 18
upon request by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 19
demonstrate that the methodology used to allocate 20
teacher pay and teacher loan forgiveness (if applica-21
ble) to such early childhood education programs en-22
sures that each such program receives the same 23
State and local funds for teacher compensation it 24
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would receive if the credit under such section 36C 1
had not been enacted. 2
(d) E
MPLOYERLIMITATIONS.— 3
(1) P
ROHIBITION OF USE IN COLLECTIVE BAR -4
GAINING.—An employer that engages in collective 5
bargaining with employees who are eligible edu-6
cators, as defined in section 36C(c) of the Internal 7
Revenue Code of 1986, shall not include the amount 8
of the teacher tax credit under section 36C of such 9
Code in determining the amount of salary or other 10
compensation provided to any employee under the 11
collective bargaining agreement. 12
(2) P
ROHIBITION OF USE AS PUNISHMENT OR 13
RETRIBUTION.—An employer of an eligible educator, 14
as defined in section 36C of the Internal Revenue 15
Code of 1986, shall not change the work assignment 16
or location of the eligible educator if one of the pri-17
mary reasons for the change is to— 18
(A) prevent the eligible educator from re-19
ceiving a teacher tax credit under section 36C 20
of such Code; or 21
(B) reduce the amount of the teacher tax 22
credit that the eligible educator will receive. 23
(3) E
NFORCEMENT.—Notwithstanding any 24
other provision of law, the Federal Labor Relations 25
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Authority shall have the authority to investigate and 1
enforce any alleged violation of this section in the 2
same manner, and subject to the same procedures, 3
as would apply to an allegation of an unfair labor 4
practice under section 7118 of title 5, United States 5
Code. 6
(4) D
EFINITION.—In this subsection— 7
(A) the term ‘‘affecting commerce’’ has the 8
meaning given the term in section 2 of the Na-9
tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152); 10
(B) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an em-11
ployee of an employer who is employed in a 12
business of an employer that affects commerce; 13
and 14
(C) the term ‘‘employer’’ means a person, 15
including a State or political subdivision of a 16
State, engaged in a business affecting com-17
merce. 18
(e) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 19
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 20
the date of the enactment of this Act. 21
SEC. 3. INCREASE IN AND EXPANSION OF DEDUCTION FOR 22
EXPENSES OF ELEMENTARY AND SEC-23
ONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. 24
(a) I
NCREASE.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (D) of section 1
62(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 2
amended by striking ‘‘$250’’ and inserting ‘‘$500’’. 3
(2) I
NFLATION ADJUSTMENT .—Section 4
62(d)(3) of such Code is amended— 5
(A) by striking ‘‘2015’’ and inserting 6
‘‘2026’’; 7
(B) by striking ‘‘the $250 amount’’ and in-8
serting ‘‘each of the dollar amounts’’; and 9
(C) by striking ‘‘2014’’ in subparagraph 10
(B) thereof and inserting ‘‘2025’’. 11
(b) E
XPANSION TO EARLYCHILDHOOD EDU-12
CATORS.—Section 62(d)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue 13
Code of 1986 is amended— 14
(1) by striking ‘‘who is a kindergarten’’ and in-15
serting ‘‘who is— 16
‘‘(i) a kindergarten’’; 17
(2) by striking the period at the end and insert-18
ing ‘‘, or’’; and 19
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-20
paragraph: 21
‘‘(ii) an early childhood educator (as 22
defined in section 200 of the Higher Edu-23
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1021)) in 24
an early childhood education program (as 25
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defined in section 103 of such Act (20 1
U.S.C. 1003)) for at least 1,020 hours 2
during a year.’’. 3
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 4
this section shall apply to amounts paid or incurred in tax-5
able years beginning after the date of the enactment of 6
this Act. 7
SEC. 4. MANDATORY FUNDING TO SUPPORT LOCAL EDU-8
CATIONAL AGENCIES THAT MAINTAIN OR IN-9
CREASE TEACHER SALARIES. 10
Section 2003 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-11
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6603) is amended— 12
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘
AU-13
THORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS ’’ and insert-14
ing ‘‘
FUNDING’’; and 15
(2) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 16
following: 17
‘‘(a) A
PPROPRIATIONS FORPARTA.— 18
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 19
appropriated, and there are appropriated, out of any 20
funds not otherwise appropriated— 21
‘‘(A) for fiscal year 2026, $5,200,000,000 22
to carry out part A; and 23
‘‘(B) for fiscal year 2027 and each suc-24
ceeding fiscal year, the amount appropriated 25
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under this paragraph for the preceding year, in-1
creased by a percentage equal to the annual 2
percentage increase in the Consumer Price 3
Index for All Urban Consumers published by 4
the Department of Labor for the most recent 5
calendar year. 6
‘‘(2) R
ESERVATION FOR TEACHER SALARY IN -7
CENTIVE GRANTS.— 8
‘‘(A) D
EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 9
‘‘(i) E
LIGIBLE LOCAL EDUCATIONAL 10
AGENCY.—The term ‘eligible local edu-11
cational agency’ means a local educational 12
agency that, for the preceding school year, 13
maintained or increased the salary sched-14
ule for all teachers employed by the local 15
educational agency. 16
‘‘(ii) T
EACHER SALARY INCENTIVE 17
RESERVATION.—The term ‘teacher salary 18
incentive reservation’ means, for each fis-19
cal year, the amount that is 20 percent of 20
the amount by which the funds appro-21
priated under paragraph (1) for the fiscal 22
year exceeds $2,200,000,000. 23
‘‘(B) I
N GENERAL.—For each fiscal year 24
for which the total amount appropriated under 25
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paragraph (1) is greater than $2,200,000,000, 1
the Secretary shall, after making any reserva-2
tions under section 2101(a), reserve and use 3
the teacher salary incentive reservation to 4
award grants, based on allotments under sub-5
paragraph (C), to eligible local educational 6
agencies for purposes described in subpara-7
graph (E). 8
‘‘(C) A
LLOTMENTS.—An allotment under 9
this subparagraph for a fiscal year to an eligible 10
local educational agency shall bear the same re-11
lationship to the teacher salary incentive res-12
ervation as the number of children counted 13
under section 1124(c) who are served by the 14
local educational agency bears to the total num-15
ber of such children counted under such section 16
served by all eligible local educational agencies 17
that submitted an application under subpara-18
graph (D). 19
‘‘(D) A
PPLICATION.—An eligible local edu-20
cational agency desiring an allotment under this 21
paragraph shall submit to the Secretary an ap-22
plication at such time, in such manner, and 23
containing such information as the Secretary 24
may require. 25
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‘‘(E) USE OF FUNDS.—A local educational 1
agency receiving an allotment under subpara-2
graph (C) may use the allotment to carry out 3
one or more of the following: 4
‘‘(i) Comprehensive teacher or school 5
leader preparation programs described sub-6
section (d), (e), or (f) of section 202 of the 7
Higher Education Act of 1965. 8
‘‘(ii) Support for teachers to earn cer-9
tifications or credentials in high-need fields 10
or advanced credentials, such as certifi-11
cation or credentialing by the National 12
Board for Professional Teaching Stand-13
ards. 14
‘‘(iii) Teacher leadership programs. 15
‘‘(iv) Induction or mentoring pro-16
grams for new teachers, principals, or 17
other school leaders. 18
‘‘(v) High-quality research-based pro-19
fessional development. 20
‘‘(vi) Other activities approved by the 21
Secretary that— 22
‘‘(I) promote and strengthen the 23
teaching profession; 24
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‘‘(II) attract, retain, and diver-1
sify the educator workforce; or 2
‘‘(III) advance the skills and effi-3
cacy of the educator workforce. 4
‘‘(F) S
UPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—A 5
local educational agency receiving an allotment 6
under subparagraph (C) shall use the allotment 7
to supplement, and not supplant, any State 8
funds or efforts to raise teacher pay.’’. 9
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