Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
Latest action · Feb 24, 2025 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.
- IntroducedFeb 24, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
This bill allows a refundable federal tax credit, through 2030, equal to the amounts paid for qualified access technology for use by a blind individual who is the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or a dependent of the taxpayer. (Limits apply.)
The bill defines qualified access technology as hardware, software, or other information technology with the primary function of converting or adapting information that is visually represented into forms or formats usable by blind individuals.
The tax credit is limited to (1) amounts paid that are not compensated by insurance or otherwise, and (2) an aggregate amount of $2,000 (adjusted for inflation) per blind individual in any period of three consecutive taxable years.
Cosponsors 78
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 24, 2025 to Oct 1, 2026; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Original | Feb 24, 2025 |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-TX | Marc A. Veasey | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| R-MS | Michael Guest | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| R-IL | Darin LaHood | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Glenn Thompson | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| R-WV | Carol D. Miller | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Jason Crow | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Apr 28, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | May 13, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | May 14, 2025 | |
| R-FL | John H. Rutherford | May 14, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | May 19, 2025 | |
| R-CO | Jeff Crank | May 19, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Jun 2, 2025 | |
| R-UT | Burgess Owens | Jun 6, 2025 | |
| D-OH | Greg Landsman | Jun 9, 2025 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Jun 9, 2025 | |
| R-CA | Kevin Kiley | Jun 24, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Joseph D. Morelle | Sep 3, 2025 | |
| R-MN | Pete Stauber | Sep 3, 2025 | |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Sep 15, 2025 | |
| R-GA | Earl L. "Buddy" Carter | Oct 3, 2025 | |
| R-AK | Nicholas J. Begich III | Oct 3, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Oct 10, 2025 | |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Nov 10, 2025 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Nov 10, 2025 | |
| R-NC | Chuck Edwards | Dec 10, 2025 | |
| D-VA | James R. Walkinshaw | Dec 10, 2025 | |
| D-VT | Becca Balint | Dec 16, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| R-WI | Derrick Van Orden | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Lateefah Simon | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Maxwell Frost | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Jan 20, 2026 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Feb 3, 2026 | |
| R-WY | Harriet M. Hageman | Feb 3, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Feb 4, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Feb 4, 2026 | |
| D-VA | Jennifer L. McClellan | Feb 4, 2026 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Feb 4, 2026 | |
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Feb 4, 2026 | |
| D-OR | Janelle S. Bynum | Feb 9, 2026 | |
| R-KS | Derek Schmidt | Feb 11, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Feb 11, 2026 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Feb 11, 2026 | |
| D-ME | Jared F. Golden | Feb 12, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Feb 24, 2026 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Feb 24, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Frederica S. Wilson | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Mar 3, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Mar 12, 2026 | |
| D-AZ | Adelita S. Grijalva | Apr 20, 2026 | |
| R-FL | Maria Elvira Salazar | Apr 20, 2026 | |
| D-MD | Glenn Ivey | Apr 21, 2026 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Apr 29, 2026 | |
| R-FL | Mike Haridopolos | Apr 30, 2026 | |
| D-MD | Johnny Olszewski, Jr. | May 7, 2026 | |
| D-MN | Kelly Morrison | May 7, 2026 | |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | May 14, 2026 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Jun 2, 2026 | |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Jun 4, 2026 | |
| D-NH | Maggie Goodlander | Jun 4, 2026 | |
| R-CO | Jeff Hurd | Jun 9, 2026 | |
| D-CA | George Whitesides | Aug 31, 2026 | |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | Oct 1, 2026 |
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 Feb 24, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 24, 2025Introduced in House
- Feb 24, 2025Referred 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. 171, no. 36, February 24, 2025, page H769.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1918 | Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025 | Identical bill | May 22, 2025 |
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 allow a refundable tax credit against income tax for the purchase of qualified access technology for the blind.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 24, 2025Introduced 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.
