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H.R. 1507: Bicycle Commuter Act of 2019

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H.R. 1507: Bicycle Commuter Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-03-05 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-03-05 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 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.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Bicycle Commuter Act of 2019

Plain summary

Bicycle Commuter Act of 2019 This bill modifies provisions relating to the tax exclusion for employer-provided fringe benefits for bicycle commuting. Specifically, the bill (1) repeals the suspension (for the period between 2018 and the end of 2025) of the exclusion, (2) includes bikeshare (a bicycle rental operation providing for pick up and drop off) and low-speed electric bicycle within the definition of bicycle for purposes of the exclusion, and (3) modifies the limitation on the exclusion to provide for a specified monthly limitation amount (i.e., 20% of the parking fringe benefit amount).

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Official text

Bicycle Commuter Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 49 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Sean Casten (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Peter Welch (D-VT), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr1507 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116