Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Amends the Combat‑Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 to explicitly include Coast Guard members (when the Coast Guard is not operating as a Navy service), assigns responsibilities among the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Transportation for identifying and restoring amounts improperly withheld from severance payments, and sets one‑year deadlines for identification and reporting and an immediate start for preventing improper withholding.
Concern over fiscal cost and lack of specified offsets
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that clearly integrates the Coast Guard into the existing Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act across different departmental statuses.
Amends the Combat‑Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 to explicitly include Coast Guard members (when the Coast Guard is not operating as a Navy service), assigns responsibilities among the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Transportation for identifying and restoring amounts improperly withheld from severance payments, and sets one‑year deadlines for identification and reporting and an immediate start for preventing improper withholding.
Technically narrow, bipartisan-appearing veterans tax fix with modest fiscal impact and clear implementation steps—features that historically favor enactment.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that clearly integrates the Coast Guard into the existing Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act across different departmental statuses. It specifies the statutory text changes, responsible officials, and deadlines for action.
Concern over fiscal cost and lack of specified offsets
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Concern over fiscal cost and lack of specified offsets
Likely strongly supportive.
The bill fixes an inequity for combat‑injured Coast Guard members, mandates agency action, and imposes clear deadlines to restore wrongly withheld payments.
Generally supportive but pragmatic.
Praises correcting an apparent administrative error and clear deadlines while seeking clarity on costs, verification, and implementation oversight.
Cautiously supportive on principle because it aids veterans, but concerned about taxpayer cost, retroactive refunds, and expanding inter‑agency obligations without offsets.
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Technically narrow, bipartisan-appearing veterans tax fix with modest fiscal impact and clear implementation steps—features that historically favor enactment.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Concern over fiscal cost and lack of specified offsets
Technically narrow, bipartisan-appearing veterans tax fix with modest fiscal impact and clear implementation steps—features that historical…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive amendment that clearly integrates the Coast Guard into the existing Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act across different depart…
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