S 1173
108th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Adoption
Agricultural education
Agriculture and Food
Child support
Congress
Day care
Disabled
Divorce
Earned income tax credit
Education
Families
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Kidnapping
Law
Marriage
Scholarships
Relief for Working Families Tax Act of 2003
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 3, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 3, 2003
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7250-7251)
Jun 3, 2003
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Relief for Working Families Tax Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the child care credit to: (1) accelerate and make permanent the $1,000 child tax credit; (2) make the 15 percent refundable portion of the child tax credit effective as of 2003 (currently 2005); and (3) increase the income threshold amounts for joint filers and for married filing separate filers. Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to make the revisions to such credit made by the Act permanent.
Amends the Code to provide a uniform definition of "child."
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1