Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
The bill amends Internal Revenue Code section 162 to deny employers a trade-or-business deduction for amounts paid to reimburse employees for travel to obtain an abortion or for any gender transition procedure for an employee's minor child. It defines covered procedures, drugs, and exceptions for disorders of sex development and medically necessary emergency surgery.
Progressives emphasize harm to access and discrimination concerns
Narrow tax change eases floor consideration, but high ideological stakes and Ways and Means scrutiny raise friction.
The bill amends Internal Revenue Code section 162 to deny employers a trade-or-business deduction for amounts paid to reimburse employees for travel to obtain an abortion or for any gender transition procedure for an employee's minor child.
It defines covered procedures, drugs, and exceptions for disorders of sex development and medically necessary emergency surgery.
The change applies to taxable years beginning after the law's enactment.
Culturally charged, limited compromise, and tax-code approach likely to provoke opposition and procedural barriers, lowering enactment odds.
How solid the drafting looks.
Progressives emphasize harm to access and discrimination concerns
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize harm to access and discrimination concerns
Likely strongly oppose.
Viewed as using the tax code to restrict health-related benefits and to punish employers who cover abortion travel or minors' gender care.
Sees this as harming access and singling out marginalized groups.
Probably mixed to somewhat skeptical.
Sees legitimate tax-policy questions but worries about healthcare access, administrative complexity, and unintended consequences for employee benefits.
Would look for narrowly tailored fixes and cost estimates.
Likely supportive.
Views the bill as preventing taxpayer-subsidized corporate activism on abortion and preventing employer-funded gender transition surgery for minors.
Sees tax code as appropriate leverage.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Culturally charged, limited compromise, and tax-code approach likely to provoke opposition and procedural barriers, lowering enactment odds.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize harm to access and discrimination concerns
Culturally charged, limited compromise, and tax-code approach likely to provoke opposition and procedural barriers, lowering enactment odds.
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