Amendment SA 789 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Purpose
To expand the adoption credit, to allow a deduction for 100 percent of the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals, to ease rollover limitations on qualified tuition programs, to disregard any child tax credit refund in the administration of Federal programs and federally assisted programs, to provide that certain computer expenses are to be treated as qualified elementary and secondary education expenses for purposes of education savings accounts, to exempt State and local candidate committees from notification requirements, to expand the dependent care credit, to provide for education savings accounts, to provide a credit against tax for employers who provide child care assistance, to provide that a deduction equal to fair market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor, to waive the statute of limitation for taxes on certain farm valuations, to permanently extend the research credit and to increase the rates of the alternative incremental credit, to provide for a credit for medical research related to developing vaccines against wide-spread diseases, to clarify the coordination of various education-related exclusions with the deduction for higher education expenses, to modify the treatment of bonds issued to acquire renewable resources on land subject to conservation easement, to accelerate benefits of wage tax credits for empowerment zones, to enhance book donations and literacy, to treat certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for purposes of determining acquisition indebtedness, to provide tax-exempt bond authority for treatment facilities that reduce arsenic levels in drinking water, and to provide for marriage penalty relief.
Proposed Date
2001-05-23T04:00:00Z
Congress
107
Chamber
Senate
Bill
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Amendment
SAMDT 789
Sponsors
+5
Cosponsors
+5
Purpose and Summary
Latest Action5/23/2001
Amendment SA 789 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.