Estate Planning - Legislation
- Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.323 Expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of ...
Expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of National Health Care Decisions Day.
(April 6, 2008) - Bill Introduced: S.Con.Res.73 A concurrent resolution expressing Congressional support for the ...
A concurrent resolution expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of National Health Care Decisions Day.
(April 1, 2008) - Bill Enacted: S.J.Res.25 A joint resolution providing for the appointment of John W. ...
A joint resolution providing for the appointment of John W. McCarter as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
March 14, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-197.
(March 12, 2008) - Bill Introduced: H.J.Res.77 Expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of ...
Expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of National Health Care Decisions Day.
(March 10, 2008) - Bill Introduced: S.J.Res.29 A joint resolution expressing Congressional support for the goals ...
A joint resolution expressing Congressional support for the goals and ideals of National Health Care Decisions Day.
(March 10, 2008) - Bill Introduced: S.2734 Security Against Foreclosures and Education Act
A bill to aid families and neighborhoods facing home foreclosure and address the subprime mortgage crisis.
(March 5, 2008) - Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.312 Budget resolution FY2009
Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.
(March 5, 2008) - Bill Introduced: S.2640 Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 2008
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance and improve insurance, housing, labor and education, and other benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.
(February 12, 2008) - Bill Enacted: S.2271 Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007
An original bill to authorize State and local governments to divest assets in companies that conduct business operations in Sudan, to prohibit United States Government contracts with such companies, and for other purposes.
December 31, 2007: Became Public Law No: 110-174.
(December 29, 2007) - Bill Enacted: S.J.Res.8 A joint resolution providing for the reappointment of Patricia Q. ...
A joint resolution providing for the reappointment of Patricia Q. Stonesifer as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
December 21, 2007: Became Public Law No: 110-155.
(December 19, 2007) - Bill Signed by President: S.J.Res.7 A joint resolution providing for the reappointment of Roger ...
A joint resolution providing for the reappointment of Roger W. Sant as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
November 16, 2007: Signed by President.
(November 14, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3708 American Family Farm and Ranchland Protection Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitations on the amount excluded from the gross estate with respect to land subject to a qualified conservation easement.
(September 29, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3475 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and ...
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes.
(September 3, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.1994 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain ...
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax.
(August 1, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3190 Opt Out of Iraq War Act of 2007
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate that their income, estate, or gift tax payments be spent other than for purposes of supporting the war in Iraq and to provide that amounts so designated shall be used to provide funding for Head Start, to reduce the national debt, and to provide college funding for children of Iraq war veterans.
(July 24, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3170 Capital Gains and Estate Tax Relief Act of 2007
To make permanent the individual income tax rates for capital gains, and for other purposes.
(July 22, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3125 Opt Out of Iraq War Act of 2007
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate that their income, estate, or gift tax payments be spent other than for purposes of supporting the war in Iraq and to provide that amounts so designated shall be used to provide funding for Head Start, to reduce the national debt, and to provide college funding for children of Iraq war veterans.
(July 21, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.3056 Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collection companies, to delay implementation of withholding taxes on government contractors, to revise the tax rules on expatriation, and for other purposes.
(July 15, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.1783 Wired for Health Care Quality Act
A bill to provide 10 steps to transform health care in America.
(July 10, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.2380 Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2007
To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
(May 15, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1929 Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act of 2007
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax.
(April 16, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1921 Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act
To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
(April 16, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.1081 Flat Tax Act of 2007
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a flat tax only on individual taxable earned income and business taxable income, and for other purposes.
(April 8, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.1025 Fair Tax Act of 2007
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
(March 27, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.1040 Tax Simplification Act of 2007
A bill to repeal the current Internal Revenue Code and replace it with a flat tax, thereby guaranteeing economic growth and greater fairness for all Americans.
(March 27, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.99 Revising the congressional budget for the United States ...
Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2007, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2009 through 2012.
(March 21, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1586 Death Tax Repeal Act of 2007
To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.
(March 18, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1090 Social Security Guarantee Plus Act of 2007
To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to preserve and strengthen the Social Security Program through the creation of personal Social Security guarantee accounts ensuring full benefits for all workers and their families, restoring long-term Social Security solvency, to make certain benefit improvements, and for other purposes.
(February 13, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1040 Freedom Flat Tax Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system.
(February 12, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.J.Res.23 Proposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States ...
Proposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.
(February 5, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.465 Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007
A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.
(January 29, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.464 Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act of 2007
A bill to amend title XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the requirements regarding advance directives in order to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are complied with, and for other purposes.
(January 29, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.466 Medicare End-of-Life Care Planning Act of 2007
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of an end-of-life planning consultation as part of an initial preventive physical examination under the Medicare program.
(January 29, 2007) - Bill Introduced: S.334 Healthy Americans Act
A bill to provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away.
(January 16, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.411 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent certain ...
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent certain temporary provisions applicable to individuals, including the sales tax deduction, the child credit, the repeal of the estate tax, and the deduction for higher education expenses.
(January 9, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.242 Social Security KidSave Accounts Act
To amend the Social Security Act to provide each American child with a KidSave Account, and for other purposes.
(January 3, 2007) - Bill Introduced: H.R.25 Fair Tax Act of 2007
To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
(January 2, 2007) - Bill Signed by President: H.R.3508 2005 District of Columbia Omnibus Authorization Act
To authorize improvements in the operation of the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
October 16, 2006: Signed by President.
(October 14, 2006) - Bill Introduced: H.R.5970 Minimum Wage bill
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
(July 26, 2006) - Bill Introduced: H.Res.934 Supporting the goals and ideals of Plan Ahead with an Advance ...
Supporting the goals and ideals of Plan Ahead with an Advance Directive Week.
(July 18, 2006) - Bill Introduced: H.R.5638 Permanent Estate Tax Relief Act of 2006
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000 and to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and for other purposes.
(June 17, 2006) - Bill Introduced: H.R.4249 Living Well with Fatal Chronic Illness Act of 2005
To provide for programs within the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Veterans Affairs for patients with fatal chronic illness, and for other purposes.
(November 6, 2005) - Bill Introduced: S.1921 Savings for Working Families Act of 2005
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and replacing such taxes with a national sales tax and a business tax.
(October 24, 2005) - Bill Introduced: S.1012 Patients' Bill of Rights Act of 2005
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage
(May 10, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.2259 Patients' Bill of Rights Act of 2005
To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(May 9, 2005) - Bill Introduced: S.988 Estate Tax bill
A bill to permanently repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
(May 8, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.2058 Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2005
To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.
(May 1, 2005) - Bill Introduced: S.812 Flat Tax Act of 2005
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a flat tax only on individual taxable earned income and business taxable income, and for other purposes.
(April 13, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.Res.217 Supporting the rights of individuals to make medical decisions as ...
Supporting the rights of individuals to make medical decisions as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and encouraging all Americans to set forth their wishes in living wills that designate health care surrogates and in other advance directives.
(April 12, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1574 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth ...
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3,500,000.
(April 10, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1560 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the exclusion ...
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit allowed against the estate tax to $7,500,000 and to establish a flat estate tax rate.
(April 10, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1568 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently reduce ...
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently reduce estate and gift tax rates to 30 percent, to increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit to $10,000,000, and to increase the annual gift tax exclusion to $50,000.
(April 10, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1577 Certain and Immediate Estate Tax Relief Act of 2005
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to retain the estate tax with an immediate increase in the exemption, to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, and for other purposes.
(April 10, 2005) - Bill Sent To President: S.686 Terri Schiavo Incapacitated Protection bill
A bill to provide for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo.
March 21, 2005: Presented to President.
(March 19, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1452 For the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo.
For the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo.
(March 18, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1040 Freedom Flat Tax Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system.
(February 28, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1041 Social Security KidSave Accounts Act
To amend the Social Security Act to provide each American child with a KidSave Account, and for other purposes.
(February 28, 2005) - Bill Introduced: S.420 Estate Tax bill
A bill to make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
(February 15, 2005) - Bill Introduced: H.R.8 Estate Tax bill
To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
(February 15, 2005)