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HR 1643 113th Congress House

Employee Hardship Financial Relief Act of 2013

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free withdrawals from the Federal Thrift Savings Fund to employees who are furloughed as a result of the Federal budget sequester.

Introduced: April 18, 2013 See on congress.gov
Taxation AppropriationsBudget deficits and national debtGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementIncome tax exclusionTax administration and collection, taxpayers
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Apr 18, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Apr 18, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 18, 2013

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Employee Hardship Financial Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit federal employees who are furloughed due to sequestration to make penalty-free distributions from their Thrift Savings Account Fund but only to the extent that such distributions do not exceed the aggregate reduction in compensation of such employees resulting from such furlough.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 1
O'Rourke, Beto
· Jun 18, 2013
Owens, William
· May 22, 2013
Delaney, John
· May 21, 2013
Heck, Denny
· Apr 25, 2013
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Carson, André
Indiana · Apr 24, 2013
Hanabusa, Colleen
· Apr 18, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1643: Employee Hardship Financial Relief Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1643/
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"H.R. 1643: Employee Hardship Financial Relief Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1643/.
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H.R. 1643, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1643/.
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