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H.R. 622: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015

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H.R. 622: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-30 · Taxation · Latest: Received in the Senate.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-30 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 158 (2015): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR622 (2015-04-16), Failed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate. 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.

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Official title

State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on April 6, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.) State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. (Sec. 3) Prohibits the budgetary effects of this Act from being entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.

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Official text

State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8] · 43 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 622, State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 (2015-02-19)

Cosponsors on this site

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), John R. Carter (R-TX), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Roger Williams (R-TX), Brian Babin (R-TX), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Tom Emmer (R-MN)

Recorded votes

Words on this page, explained (2)
Sales tax
A tax added to the price of goods and some services when they are bought.
Statute
A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr622 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114