HR 1921 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act

Introduced Apr 18, 2007 Originated House Sponsor John Lewis D-GA

Latest action · Apr 18, 2007 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Progress

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IntroducedApr 18, 2007
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers: (1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon their deeply held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and (2) who have certified their beliefs in writing to the Secretary.

Requires that: (1) amounts deposited in the Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose; (2) the Secretary report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the total amount transferred into the Fund during the preceding fiscal year and the purposes for which such amount was allocated; and (3) the privacy of individuals using the Fund be protected.

Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue increase resulting from the creation of the Fund be allocated in a manner consistent with its purposes.

Cosponsors 45

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 18, 2007 to Nov 20, 2008; 16 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Chaka Fattah	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-MN	James L. Oberstar	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-IN	Julia Carson	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Apr 18, 2007
R-TX	Ron Paul	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	Apr 18, 2007
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		May 8, 2007
D-NJ	Rush Holt		May 8, 2007
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 14, 2007
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 17, 2007
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		May 23, 2007
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jun 15, 2007
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Aug 2, 2007
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Oct 9, 2007
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Oct 22, 2007
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Oct 29, 2007
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Nov 13, 2007
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Nov 15, 2007
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Nov 15, 2007
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jan 15, 2008
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Jan 28, 2008
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Mar 4, 2008
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		Mar 14, 2008
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Apr 1, 2008
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Apr 1, 2008
D-MA	Barney Frank		Apr 15, 2008
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		May 7, 2008
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		May 20, 2008
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 5, 2008
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jun 12, 2008
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jun 17, 2008
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Jul 9, 2008
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jul 23, 2008
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Nov 19, 2008
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Nov 20, 2008

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 18, 2007

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 18, 2007Introduced in House
Apr 18, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

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Apr 18, 2007Introduced in House

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