HR 4960 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

CARS Act of 2014

Introduced Jun 25, 2014 Originated House Sponsor Todd Young R-IN

Latest action · Jun 25, 2014 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.

IntroducedJun 25, 2014
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Charitable Automobile Red-Tape Simplification Act of 2014 or the CARS Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for charitable contributions, to modify the substantiation rules for donations of qualified vehicles (i.e., motor vehicles manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads, and highways and boats or airplanes) to require: (1) a statement with respect to such qualified vehicles and a good faith estimate of their value at the time of donation; and (2) a contemporaneous written acknowledgement of the contribution by the donee organization, with information about the donor and the qualified vehicle.

Cosponsors 247

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 25, 2014 to Dec 11, 2014; 22 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IL	Aaron Schock	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-WA	David G. Reichert	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-CA	Devin Nunes	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-TN	Diane Black	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-MN	Erik Paulsen	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-OH	James B. Renacci	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-PA	Jim Gerlach	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-TX	Kenny Marchant	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-PA	Mike Kelly	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Original	Jun 25, 2014
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-AR	Tim Griffin	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-GA	Tom Price	Original	Jun 25, 2014
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Jun 30, 2014
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 14, 2014
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 14, 2014
R-NY	Tom Reed		Jul 14, 2014
R-TX	Blake Farenthold		Jul 15, 2014
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Jul 15, 2014
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Jul 15, 2014
R-AZ	Trent Franks		Jul 15, 2014
R-OH	Bill Johnson		Jul 16, 2014
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jul 16, 2014
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 16, 2014
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Jul 16, 2014
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Jul 17, 2014
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Jul 17, 2014
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Jul 17, 2014
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jul 17, 2014
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jul 17, 2014
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jul 17, 2014
R-TN	David P. Roe		Jul 22, 2014
R-CO	Doug Lamborn		Jul 22, 2014
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jul 22, 2014
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jul 22, 2014
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 22, 2014
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 22, 2014
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Jul 22, 2014
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jul 22, 2014
D-MA	William R. Keating		Jul 22, 2014
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Jul 23, 2014
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 23, 2014
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jul 23, 2014
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Jul 23, 2014
R-CA	Tom McClintock		Jul 23, 2014
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jul 24, 2014
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jul 24, 2014
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Jul 24, 2014
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Jul 24, 2014
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Jul 24, 2014
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Jul 24, 2014
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Jul 24, 2014
R-MO	Billy Long		Jul 25, 2014
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 25, 2014
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jul 25, 2014
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jul 25, 2014
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jul 25, 2014
R-AK	Don Young		Jul 28, 2014
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 28, 2014
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jul 28, 2014
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jul 28, 2014
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Jul 28, 2014
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jul 28, 2014
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 28, 2014
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jul 29, 2014
R-TX	Bill Flores		Jul 29, 2014
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Jul 29, 2014
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 29, 2014
D-CO	Jared Polis		Jul 29, 2014
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jul 29, 2014
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jul 29, 2014
R-MN	Michele Bachmann		Jul 29, 2014
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jul 29, 2014
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jul 30, 2014
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jul 30, 2014
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Jul 30, 2014
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jul 30, 2014
R-MN	John Kline		Jul 30, 2014
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Jul 30, 2014
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Jul 30, 2014
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jul 31, 2014
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jul 31, 2014
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jul 31, 2014
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Jul 31, 2014
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Jul 31, 2014
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jul 31, 2014
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Jul 31, 2014
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jul 31, 2014
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jul 31, 2014
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Jul 31, 2014
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jul 31, 2014
D-NY	Steve Israel		Jul 31, 2014
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Jul 31, 2014
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jul 31, 2014
R-CO	Cory Gardner		Aug 1, 2014
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Aug 1, 2014
D-IA	David Loebsack		Aug 1, 2014
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Aug 1, 2014
D-CA	John Garamendi		Aug 1, 2014
R-NE	Lee Terry		Aug 1, 2014
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Aug 1, 2014
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Aug 1, 2014
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Sep 9, 2014
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 9, 2014
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Sep 9, 2014
D-IL	Bill Foster		Sep 9, 2014
R-FL	Bill Posey		Sep 9, 2014
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Sep 9, 2014
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Sep 9, 2014
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Sep 9, 2014
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 9, 2014
R-CA	Gary G. Miller		Sep 9, 2014
D-TX	Gene Green		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Gloria Negrete McLeod		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Sep 9, 2014
R-NC	Howard Coble		Sep 9, 2014
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Sep 9, 2014
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 9, 2014
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Sep 9, 2014
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Sep 9, 2014
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Sep 9, 2014
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Sep 9, 2014
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Sep 9, 2014
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Sep 9, 2014
R-TX	Pete Olson		Sep 9, 2014
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent		Sep 9, 2014
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Sep 9, 2014
R-AR	Steve Womack		Sep 9, 2014
R-PA	Tom Marino		Sep 9, 2014
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Sep 10, 2014
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		Sep 10, 2014
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Sep 10, 2014
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Sep 10, 2014
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Sep 10, 2014
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Sep 10, 2014
R-SD	Kristi L. Noem		Sep 10, 2014
D-CA	Lois Capps		Sep 10, 2014
D-CA	Mark Takano		Sep 10, 2014
R-CA	Paul Cook		Sep 10, 2014
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Sep 10, 2014
R-AR	Tom Cotton		Sep 10, 2014
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Sep 10, 2014
D-IN	André Carson		Sep 15, 2014
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Sep 15, 2014
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Sep 15, 2014
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Sep 15, 2014
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Sep 15, 2014
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Sep 15, 2014
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Sep 15, 2014
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Sep 15, 2014
D-IL	William L. Enyart		Sep 15, 2014
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 15, 2014
D-TX	Al Green		Sep 17, 2014
D-GA	David Scott		Sep 17, 2014
D-CA	Jim Costa		Sep 17, 2014
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Sep 17, 2014
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Sep 17, 2014
R-AZ	Matt Salmon		Sep 17, 2014
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 17, 2014
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Sep 17, 2014
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Sep 18, 2014
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Sep 18, 2014
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Sep 18, 2014
R-TX	John R. Carter		Sep 18, 2014
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Sep 18, 2014
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Sep 18, 2014
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Sep 18, 2014
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		Sep 18, 2014
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Nov 14, 2014
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Nov 14, 2014
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Nov 14, 2014
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Nov 14, 2014
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Nov 14, 2014
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Nov 14, 2014
D-NV	Dina Titus		Nov 14, 2014
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Nov 14, 2014
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Nov 14, 2014
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Nov 14, 2014
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Nov 14, 2014
D-NY	Grace Meng		Nov 14, 2014
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz		Nov 14, 2014
D-CA	Judy Chu		Nov 14, 2014
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Nov 14, 2014
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Nov 14, 2014
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Nov 14, 2014
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Nov 14, 2014
R-MI	Mike Rogers		Nov 14, 2014
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Nov 14, 2014
D-VT	Peter Welch		Nov 14, 2014
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		Nov 14, 2014
R-ID	Raul R. Labrador		Nov 14, 2014
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Nov 14, 2014
R-TN	Scott DesJarlais		Nov 14, 2014
R-PA	Scott Perry		Nov 14, 2014
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Nov 14, 2014
R-IN	Todd Rokita		Nov 14, 2014
D-NY	William L. Owens		Nov 14, 2014
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Nov 14, 2014
R-MS	Alan Nunnelee		Nov 20, 2014
R-KY	Andy Barr		Nov 20, 2014
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Nov 20, 2014
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Nov 20, 2014
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Nov 20, 2014
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Nov 20, 2014
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Nov 20, 2014
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Nov 20, 2014
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Nov 20, 2014
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Nov 20, 2014
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Nov 20, 2014
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Nov 20, 2014
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Nov 20, 2014
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Nov 20, 2014
R-IL	Randy Hultgren		Nov 20, 2014
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Nov 20, 2014
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Nov 20, 2014
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Nov 20, 2014
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Nov 20, 2014
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		Nov 20, 2014
R-MD	Andy Harris		Dec 4, 2014
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Dec 4, 2014
R-MI	Dan Benishek		Dec 4, 2014
D-NC	David E. Price		Dec 4, 2014
R-FL	David W. Jolly		Dec 4, 2014
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Dec 4, 2014
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Dec 4, 2014
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Dec 4, 2014
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Dec 4, 2014
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Dec 4, 2014
R-TX	Roger Williams		Dec 4, 2014
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Dec 9, 2014
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Dec 9, 2014
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Dec 9, 2014
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Dec 9, 2014
D-CA	Karen Bass		Dec 11, 2014
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Dec 11, 2014

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 Jun 25, 2014

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 25, 2014Introduced in House
Jun 25, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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 the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debt and provide for the common Defense 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 H5768.

Titles 3

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the substantiation rules for the donation of vehicles valued between $500 and $5,000 dollars.
Short Titles as Introduced: CARS Act of 2014; Charitable Automobile Red-Tape Simplification Act of 2014

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 25, 2014Introduced in House

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