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HR 6242 114th Congress House Taxation Corporate finance and management Income tax rates Wages and earnings

CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act

Introduced: September 28, 2016 Introduced by: DeSaulnier, Mark Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 28, 2016
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CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the corporate income tax rate for publicly traded corporations that pay their chief executive officers or highest paid employees more than 100 times the median compensation of all their U.S. employees, and (2) decrease the rate for publicly traded corporations that pay their chief executive officers or highest paid employees less than 50 times the median compensation of all their U.S. employees.

What's happening now September 28, 2016

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6242: CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6242/
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