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HR 4334 104th Congress House Taxation College costs Education Educational finance Excise tax Higher education Income tax Individual retirement accounts Labor and Employment Occupational retraining Tax exclusion Tax penalties Tax-deferred compensation plans

Lifetime Education and Retraining Needs Act

Introduced: September 30, 1996 See on congress.gov
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Sep 30, 1996
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 30, 1996
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Lifetime Education and Retraining Needs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income individual retirement account distributions used for post-secondary education and job retraining expenses. Exempts such distributions from excess distributions tax provisions.

What's happening now September 30, 1996

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Oct 2, 1996
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4334: Lifetime Education and Retraining Needs Act. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-4334/
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"H.R. 4334: Lifetime Education and Retraining Needs Act." 104th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-4334/.
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