HR 3466 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2011

Introduced Nov 17, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Peter T. King R-NY

Latest action · Nov 18, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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.

IntroducedNov 17, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a $5 contribution to the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund ($10 for joint returns).

Establishes in the Treasury the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund to award grants for breast or prostate cancer research.

Cosponsors 20

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 17, 2011 to Sep 21, 2012; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-IN	Dan Burton	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-GA	David Scott	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-TX	Henry Cuellar	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-AL	Spencer Bachus	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter	Original	Nov 17, 2011
R-MO	W. Todd Akin	Original	Nov 17, 2011
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Nov 18, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Nov 29, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel		Dec 12, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Dec 14, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Sep 21, 2012

Committees 2

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 Nov 17, 2011
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Nov 17, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Nov 18, 2011

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Nov 18, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 17, 2011Introduced in House
Nov 17, 2011Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7830.

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2011

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Nov 17, 2011Introduced in House

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