S 133 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Employee Educational Assistance Act

Introduced Jan 22, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Max Baucus D-MT

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 14, 2001 Committee on Finance. Hearings held.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 22, 2001
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Employee Educational Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permanently extend the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) restore the exclusion for such assistance on the graduate level.

Cosponsors 18

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2001 to May 2, 2001, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IA	Chuck Grassley	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer		Mar 21, 2001
D-MA	John F. Kerry		Mar 21, 2001
R-OH	Mike DeWine		Mar 21, 2001
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin		Mar 21, 2001
D-NJ	Robert G. Torricelli		Mar 21, 2001
R-MS	Thad Cochran		Mar 21, 2001
D-MI	Carl Levin		Apr 23, 2001
I-VT	James M. Jeffords		Apr 23, 2001
D-GA	Max Cleland		Apr 23, 2001
D-WA	Patty Murray		Apr 23, 2001
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy		Apr 25, 2001
R-NC	Jesse Helms		Apr 26, 2001
R-VA	John Warner		Apr 30, 2001
D-NJ	Jon S. Corzine		May 1, 2001

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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 14, 2001Committee on Finance. Hearings held.
Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate
Jan 22, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 22, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S407)

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1483	Employee Educational Assistance Act	Identical bill	Aug 13, 2001

Subjects

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