HR 4764 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Military Spouses Employment Act

Introduced Mar 4, 2010 Originated House Sponsor John R. Carter R-TX

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 4, 2010 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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.

IntroducedMar 4, 2010
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Military Spouses Employment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include spouses of members of the Armed Forces on extended active duty (more than 90 days or for an indefinite period) as members of a targeted group for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit (thus giving employers a tax incentive for hiring military spouses).

Cosponsors 46

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 4, 2010 to Jul 30, 2010, with 17 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers	Original	Mar 4, 2010
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Mar 4, 2010
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-AL	Jo Bonner	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-FL	John L. Mica	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-TX	Lamar Smith	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-MI	Mike Rogers	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-TX	Pete Olson	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer	Original	Mar 4, 2010
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-MO	Roy Blunt	Original	Mar 4, 2010
R-TX	Sam Johnson	Original	Mar 4, 2010
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Original	Mar 4, 2010

Show all 46 cosponsors

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 4, 2010Introduced in House
Mar 4, 2010Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 3232	Military Spouses Employment Act	Identical bill	Apr 20, 2010

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 4, 2010Introduced in House

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.