HR 5728
110th Congress
House
Taxation
Arizona
Boundaries
California
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Income tax
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Road construction
Security measures
Tax returns
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Border Fence Trust Fund Act of 2008
Introduced: April 8, 2008
Introduced by:
Capito, Shelley Moore
Republican
· West Virginia
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 28, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Apr 8, 2008
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
Apr 8, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Border Fence Trust Fund Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Border Improvement Trust Fund and allow individual taxpayers (other than nonresident aliens) to designate that $5.00 ($10.00 in the case of joint returns) of their income taxes be paid over to such Fund to install additional barriers and roads at the U.S. border.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Committees of jurisdiction
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