S 879
114th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Adult day care
Aging
Income tax credits
Americans Giving Care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2015
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 26, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 26, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Americans Giving Care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2015
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow caregivers a tax credit for up to $6,000 of the eldercare expenses incurred for their parents (or ancestors of such parents).
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to: (1) increase and extend funding for the National Family Caregiver Support Program through FY2019, and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to or enter into a cooperative agreement with a public or private nonprofit entity to establish a National Resource Center on Family Caregiving to provide information on and support for family caregiver support programs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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