S. 78: Invest in Small Business Act of 2009
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S. 78: Invest in Small Business Act of 2009
111th Congress · introduced 2009-01-06 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2009-01-06 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Invest in Small Business Act of 2009
Plain summary
Invest in Small Business Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock from 50 to 100 % of such gain and to reduce the required holding period for such stock from five to four years; (2) deny a tax exclusion for small business stock held by a 25% controlled corporate group; (3) repeal as an item of tax preference under the alternative minimum tax the exclusion of gain from the sale of small business stock; (4) repeal the 28% income tax rate on the gain from the sale of small business stock which is not excluded from gross income; (5) revise the definition of "qualified small business" for certain tax purposes to mean a C corporation with aggregate gross assets not exceeding $100 million (currently, $50 million); and (6) provide for an annual inflation adjustment to the small business aggregate gross asset amount after 2009.
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Official text
Invest in Small Business Act of 2009
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · 2 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111s78.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/s>
Record fed-us-cong111-s78 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111