PACE Act
Latest action · Jul 28, 2017 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.
- IntroducedJul 28, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Promoting Affordable Childcare for Everyone Act or the PACE Act
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment (known as the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit), to: (1) make the credit refundable, (2) increase the rate for the credit, and (3) require the dollar amounts for such credit to be adjusted for inflation after 2017.
The bill also increases the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance which may be excluded from the gross income of an employee and requires the increased exclusion amount to be adjusted for inflation after 2018.
Cosponsors 47
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 28, 2017 to Apr 24, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Stephanie N. Murphy | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| D-NV | Jacky Rosen | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Jeff Denham | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Sep 13, 2017 | |
| R-VA | Barbara Comstock | Sep 14, 2017 | |
| R-KY | Andy Barr | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Duncan Hunter | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-WA | Jaime Herrera Beutler | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-NY | John Katko | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Lee M. Zeldin | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-NJ | Leonard Lance | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-OH | Michael R. Turner | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-PA | Ryan A. Costello | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Sep 27, 2017 | |
| R-AZ | Martha McSally | Sep 27, 2017 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Sep 28, 2017 | |
| D-TX | Vicente Gonzalez | Sep 28, 2017 | |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Oct 3, 2017 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Oct 4, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Oct 4, 2017 | |
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Oct 4, 2017 | |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Oct 6, 2017 | |
| R-TX | Will Hurd | Oct 6, 2017 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Oct 11, 2017 | |
| R-ME | Bruce Poliquin | Oct 24, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Oct 24, 2017 | |
| R-IA | David Young | Oct 25, 2017 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Oct 25, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Paul Cook | Oct 25, 2017 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Oct 25, 2017 | |
| D-FL | Charlie Crist | Oct 27, 2017 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Oct 27, 2017 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Oct 31, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Oct 31, 2017 | |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Nov 1, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Nov 1, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Nov 8, 2017 | |
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Nov 8, 2017 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Nov 30, 2017 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Dec 15, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Dec 15, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Apr 24, 2018 |
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 Jul 28, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2017Introduced in House
- Jul 28, 2017Referred 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 128, July 28, 2017, page H6580.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R45035 | The Child and Dependent Care Credit: Impact of Selected Policy Options Archived | Report | Dec 5, 2017 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 208 | PACE Act | Identical bill | Jan 24, 2017 |
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 make the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit fully refundable, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- PACE Act
- Promoting Affordable Childcare for Everyone Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2017Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
