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HR 3019 108th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Families Income tax Labor and Employment Military pensions Survivors' benefits Tax exclusion Taxation

To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the military death gratuity from $6,000 to $12,000 and to provide that such death gratuity shall be excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Introduced: September 5, 2003 Introduced by: McGovern, James P. Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
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Sep 5, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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.
Sep 5, 2003
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Increases from $6,000 to $12,000 the death gratuity paid upon the active-duty death of a member of the armed forces.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any such death gratuity from gross income.

What's happening now September 5, 2003

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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.

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