S. 2069: Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act
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S. 2069: Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act
113th Congress · introduced 2014-02-27 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2014-02-27 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · 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
Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act
Plain summary
Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Obama Administration should work to make the small employer health care insurance tax credit more accessible for small employers. Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the small employer health care insurance tax credit, to: (1) revise the definition of "eligible small employer" to mean an employer with not more than 50 (currently, 25) full-time employees; (2) modify the phaseout formula for such credit to base such phaseout on number of employees and average annual wages; (3) allow a 35% credit in 2014 to small employers who purchase health care coverage outside of the Small Business Health Option Program (SHOP exchange); (4) extend from two to three consecutive taxable years the period during which an employer may claim such credit; (5) eliminate the requirement that employers contribute the same percentage of cost of each employee's health insurance and the cap limiting eligible employer contributions to average premiums paid to a state health insurance exchange; and (6) make such credit available to dependents of a small employer.
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Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · 14 cosponsors
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Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s2069.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s2069 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113