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H.R. 2963: Bring Jobs Home Act

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H.R. 2963: Bring Jobs Home Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-07-08 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-07-08 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Bring Jobs Home Act

Plain summary

Bring Jobs Home Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and relocating it within the United States, and (2) deny a tax deduction for outsourcing expenses incurred in relocating a U.S. business outside the United States. Requires an increase in the taxpayer's employment of full-time employees in the United States in order to claim the tax credit for insourcing expenses.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Bring Jobs Home Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9] · 29 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

John B. Larson (D-CT), Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), John Garamendi (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Joe Courtney (D-CT), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr2963 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114