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HR 4137 112th Congress House

Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2012

Official title: To make permanent the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided educational assistance.

Introduced: September 14, 2012 See on congress.gov
Taxation Employee benefits and pensionsIncome tax exclusionStudent aid and college costs
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Mar 5, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 5, 2012
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 5, 2012

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2012 - Renders the general terminating date (i.e., December 31, 2010) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 inapplicable to provisions of that Act that extended the exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance from the gross income of employees (thus making such tax exclusion permanent).

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 2
Bordallo, Madeleine
· Nov 27, 2012
BACHUS, SPENCER
· Sep 21, 2012
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Sep 14, 2012
Gerlach, Jim
· Sep 10, 2012
Marchant, Kenny
· Sep 10, 2012
Jenkins, Lynn
· May 7, 2012
Brooks, Mo
· Apr 16, 2012
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Mar 5, 2012
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4137: Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2012. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-4137/
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"H.R. 4137: Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2012." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-4137/.
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