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To allow a Hope Scholarship Credit for expenses paid in December 1997 for education furnished in academic periods beginning after 1997.

Introduced: February 26, 1998 See on congress.gov
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Feb 26, 1998
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 26, 1998
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Allows taxpayers to elect to have expenses which they paid in December 1997 for education furnished in academic periods beginning after 1997 considered as having been paid in January 1998 for purposes of the Hope Scholarship Credit under the Internal Revenue Code as amended by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-34).

What's happening now February 26, 1998

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Lofgren, Zoe
California · Feb 26, 1998
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3282: To allow a Hope Scholarship Credit for expenses paid in December 1997 for education furnished in academic periods beginning after 1997.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-3282/
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"H.R. 3282: To allow a Hope Scholarship Credit for expenses paid in December 1997 for education furnished in academic periods beginning after 1997.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-3282/.
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H.R. 3282, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-3282/.
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