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S 2462 114th Congress Senate Taxation Afghanistan Asia Elementary and secondary education Income tax exclusion Iraq Middle East Military operations and strategy Military personnel and dependents Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Veterans' pensions and compensation

Make Student Grants Truly Tax-Free Act

Introduced: January 21, 2016 Introduced by: Blumenthal, Richard Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 21, 2016
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Make Student Grants Truly Tax-Free Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for scholarships to include amounts received: (1) through a scholarship or fellowship grant program administered by the Secretary of Education that is based on financial need, including a Federal Pell Grant; (2) as an Iraq and Afghanistan Service grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965; or (3) as a TEACH Grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
What's happening now January 21, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · Feb 1, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2462: Make Student Grants Truly Tax-Free Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2462/
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"S. 2462: Make Student Grants Truly Tax-Free Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2462/.
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S. 2462, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2462/.
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