Travel for Care Act
Latest action · Dec 17, 2024 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.
- IntroducedMay 9, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Travel for Care Act
This bill allows a tax exemption for employer-reimbursed travel expenses for abortion-related care. These are expenses incurred by an employee or employee family members for travel, including meals and lodging, to receive an abortion or follow-up care related to such abortion. The bill also allows a medical expense tax deduction for such abortion-related travel expenses.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
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 May 9, 2023 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 17, 2024 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 9, 2023 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 9, 2023 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 12, 2023 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 12, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 9, 2023Introduced in House
- May 9, 2023Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E407)
- May 9, 2023Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E407 | Earl Blumenauer D-OR | May 9, 2023 |
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. 169, no. 78, May 9, 2023, page H2172.
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 exclude employer-reimbursed travel expenses for abortion-related care from taxation, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Travel for Care Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 9, 2023Introduced 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.
