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S. 1371: Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2017

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S. 1371: Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-15 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-15 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. 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.
  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

Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2017

Plain summary

Working Families Tax Relief Act of 201 7 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the earned income tax credit, to: (1) increase the credit and reduce the phaseout percentage for taxpayers with no qualifying children, (2) reduce from 25 to 21 the qualifying age for individuals with no children, (3) revise eligibility rules relating to married individuals living apart and qualifying children claimed by another family member, and (4) repeal the denial of such credit for taxpayers with excess investment income. This bill modifies the child tax credit to: (1) increase the amount of the credit and the portion of the credit that is refundable for taxpayers with children under the age of six, and (2) require the dollar amounts of the credit to be adjusted for inflation after 2017.

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Official text

Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · 44 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Jack Reed (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Brian Schatz (D-HI)

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Rulemaking
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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-s1371 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115