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S 1019 111th Congress Senate

Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for the purchase of hearing aids.

Introduced: September 8, 2009 See on congress.gov
Taxation AgingHealth technology, devices, suppliesHearing, speech, and vision careIncome tax creditsTax treatment of families
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May 11, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 11, 2009
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 11, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an income tax credit of up to $500 for the purchase of a hearing aid for the use of the taxpayer or a dependent.
 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1646 Related bill Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Sep 8, 2009
 D
Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Jun 15, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1019: Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1019/
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"S. 1019: Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1019/.
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S. 1019, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1019/.
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