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Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006

Introduced: June 21, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jun 21, 2006
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for empowerment zones and renewal communities through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; and (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zone facility bonds.

What's happening now June 21, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Related & companion bills 1
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Sep 27, 2006
Davis, Artur
· Sep 27, 2006
 R
Rogers, Harold
Kentucky · Jun 27, 2006
Melancon, Charlie
· Jun 21, 2006
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5660: Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5660/
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"H.R. 5660: Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5660/.
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