H.R. 1054: Teacher Victims’ Family Assistance Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-02-15 · Education · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-02-15 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Teacher Victims’ Family Assistance Act of 2021

Plain summary

Teacher Victims' Family Assistance Act of 2021 This bill establishes the Teacher Victims' Family Trust Fund, from which the Department of Education (ED) must provide financial assistance to certain family members of elementary and secondary school teachers and staff members who are killed by an act of violence while performing their school duties. The bill also increases from 11% to 13% the excise tax on shells and cartridges and provides the trust fund with funding equivalent to the revenues received from the tax increase. Specifically, ED must provide victims' families with (1) funeral assistance; (2) a death benefit payment for the surviving spouse, dependent child, or other next of kin; (3) a monthly living allowance for the surviving spouse until death or remarriage or, if there is no surviving spouse, for each dependent child until age 18; and (4) undergraduate education assistance for each dependent child for five years. Additionally, the bill excludes from a victim's income, for tax purposes, the amount of wages earned in the year of death. It also excludes victims' family assistance received under the bill from gross income for any taxable year.

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Teacher Victims’ Family Assistance Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] · 7 cosponsors

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Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Darren Soto (D-FL), Steve Cohen (D-TN)

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr1054.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr1054 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117