S. 2565: Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act
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S. 2565: Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act
113th Congress · introduced 2014-07-08 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2014-07-08 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · 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
Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act
Plain summary
Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent, to: (1) increase to $200,000, the adjusted gross income threshold level above which such credit is incrementally reduced; (2) increase the dollar limit on the allowable amount of such credit; (3) allow an inflation adjustment to the threshold amount and the maximum credit amounts, beginning after 2015; and (4) make such credit refundable.
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Official text
Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · 5 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Patty Murray (D-WA), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] reported raising $176,810 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s2565.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s2565 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113