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S 1366 111th Congress Senate Taxation Government trust funds Homelessness and emergency shelter Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 25, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Jun 25, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 25, 2009
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund and to allow individual taxpayers to designate on their tax returns $3.00 of income taxes ($6.00 in the case of joint returns) to be paid over to such Fund to provide assistance to homeless veterans.

Requires that the President's annual budget submission for FY2011 and subsequent years contain a description of the use of funds from the Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund.

What's happening now June 25, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Nov 16, 2009
 D
Merkley, Jeff
Oregon · Nov 10, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1366: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1366/
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"S. 1366: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1366/.
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S. 1366, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1366/.
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