H.R. 647 - ABLE Act of 2014
- Sponsor:
- Ander Crenshaw
- Summary:
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
- Status:
- The bill was voted on in the House on December 3, 2014
PASSED on December 3, 2014.
1/2 required to pass
voted YES: 404
voted NO: 17
14 voted present/not voting
ABLE Act of 2014
H.R. 647 — 113th Congress (2013–2014)
- Summary
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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- Title
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes.
- Other Titles
- ABLE Act of 2013
- Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2013
- ABLE Act of 2014
- Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014
- ABLE Act of 2014
- Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014
- ABLE Act of 2014
- Sponsor
- Ander Crenshaw
- Co-Sponsors
- Mark E. Amodei
- Robert E. Andrews
- Michele Bachmann
- Spencer Bachus
- Ron Barber
- Lou Barletta
- Andy Barr
- Joe Barton
- Karen Bass
- Joyce Beatty
- Dan Benishek
- Kerry L. Bentivolio
- Ami Bera
- Gus M. Bilirakis
- Rob Bishop
- Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
- Timothy H. Bishop
- Diane Black
- Marsha Blackburn
- Earl Blumenauer
- Suzanne Bonamici
- Jo Bonner
- Charles W. Boustany Jr.
- Kevin Brady
- Robert A. Brady
- Bruce L. Braley
- Susan W. Brooks
- Paul C. Broun
- Corrine Brown
- Julia Brownley
- Vern Buchanan
- Larry Bucshon
- Michael C. Burgess
- Cheri Bustos
- G. K. Butterfield
- Bradley Byrne
- Ken Calvert
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Lois Capps
- Michael E. Capuano
- Tony Cárdenas
- John C. Carney Jr.
- André Carson
- John R. Carter
- Matt Cartwright
- Bill Cassidy
- Kathy Castor
- Joaquin Castro
- Steve Chabot
- Judy Chu
- David N. Cicilline
- Katherine M. Clark
- Yvette D. Clarke
- Wm. Lacy Clay
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Howard Coble
- Mike Coffman
- Steve Cohen
- Tom Cole
- Doug Collins
- K. Michael Conaway
- Gerald E. Connolly
- John Conyers, Jr.
- Paul Cook
- Jim Cooper
- Jim Costa
- Tom Cotton
- Joe Courtney
- Kevin Cramer
- Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
- Joseph Crowley
- Henry Cuellar
- John Abney Culberson
- Elijah E. Cummings
- Steve Daines
- Danny K. Davis
- Rodney Davis
- Susan A. Davis
- Peter A. DeFazio
- John K. Delaney
- Rosa L. DeLauro
- Suzan K. DelBene
- Jeff Denham
- Charles W. Dent
- Ron DeSantis
- Scott DesJarlais
- Theodore E. Deutch
- Mario Diaz-Balart
- Lloyd Doggett
- Michael F. Doyle
- Tammy Duckworth
- Sean P. Duffy
- John J. Duncan, Jr.
- Donna F. Edwards
- Keith Ellison
- Renee L. Ellmers
- Eliot L. Engel
- William L. Enyart
- Anna G. Eshoo
- Elizabeth H. Esty
- Blake Farenthold
- Sam Farr
- Chaka Fattah
- Stephen Lee Fincher
- Michael G. Fitzpatrick
- Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann
- John Fleming
- Bill Flores
- J. Randy Forbes
- Jeff Fortenberry
- Lois Frankel
- Trent Franks
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
- Marcia L. Fudge
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Pete P. Gallego
- John Garamendi
- Joe Garcia
- Cory Gardner
- Jim Gerlach
- Bob Gibbs
- Christopher P. Gibson
- Phil Gingrey
- Bob Goodlatte
- Paul A. Gosar
- Kay Granger
- Sam Graves
- Alan Grayson
- Al Green
- Gene Green
- Tim Griffin
- H. Morgan Griffith
- Michael G. Grimm
- Brett Guthrie
- Luis V. Gutiérrez
- Janice Hahn
- Ralph M. Hall
- Richard L. Hanna
- Gregg Harper
- Andy Harris
- Vicky Hartzler
- Alcee L. Hastings
- Doc Hastings
- Denny Heck
- Joseph J. Heck
- Jeb Hensarling
- Jaime Herrera Beutler
- Brian Higgins
- James A. Himes
- Rubén Hinojosa
- George Holding
- Rush Holt
- Michael M. Honda
- Steven Horsford
- Richard Hudson
- Jared Huffman
- Bill Huizenga
- Randy Hultgren
- Duncan Hunter
- Robert Hurt
- Steve Israel
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- Hakeem S. Jeffries
- Lynn Jenkins
- Bill Johnson
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
- Sam Johnson
- David W. Jolly
- Walter B. Jones
- Jim Jordan
- David P. Joyce
- Marcy Kaptur
- William R. Keating
- Mike Kelly
- Joseph P. Kennedy III
- Daniel T. Kildee
- Derek Kilmer
- Ron Kind
- Peter T. King
- Adam Kinzinger
- Ann Kirkpatrick
- John Kline
- Ann M. Kuster
- Doug LaMalfa
- Leonard Lance
- James R. Langevin
- Rick Larsen
- John B. Larson
- Tom Latham
- Robert E. Latta
- Barbara Lee
- John Lewis
- Daniel Lipinski
- Frank A. LoBiondo
- David Loebsack
- Zoe Lofgren
- Billy Long
- Alan S. Lowenthal
- Nita M. Lowey
- Blaine Luetkemeyer
- Michelle Lujan Grisham
- Ben Ray Luján
- Stephen F. Lynch
- Daniel B. Maffei
- Carolyn B. Maloney
- Sean Patrick Maloney
- Kenny Marchant
- Tom Marino
- Edward J. Markey
- Thomas Massie
- Jim Matheson
- Doris O. Matsui
- Vance M. McAllister
- Carolyn McCarthy
- Michael T. McCaul
- Tom McClintock
- Betty McCollum
- Jim McDermott
- James P. McGovern
- Patrick T. McHenry
- Mike McIntyre
- Howard P. "Buck" McKeon
- David B. McKinley
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
- Jerry McNerney
- Mark Meadows
- Patrick Meehan
- Gregory W. Meeks
- Grace Meng
- Luke Messer
- John L. Mica
- Michael H. Michaud
- Candice S. Miller
- Jeff Miller
- Gwen Moore
- James P. Moran
- Mick Mulvaney
- Patrick Murphy
- Tim Murphy
- Jerrold Nadler
- Grace F. Napolitano
- Richard E. Neal
- Gloria Negrete McLeod
- Randy Neugebauer
- Kristi L. Noem
- Richard M. Nolan
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Richard B. Nugent
- Devin Nunes
- Alan Nunnelee
- Beto O’Rourke
- Pete Olson
- William L. Owens
- Steven M. Palazzo
- Frank Pallone, Jr.
- Bill Pascrell, Jr.
- Erik Paulsen
- Donald M. Payne, Jr.
- Stevan Pearce
- Ed Perlmutter
- Gary C. Peters
- Scott H. Peters
- Collin C. Peterson
- Pedro R. Pierluisi
- Chellie Pingree
- Robert Pittenger
- Mark Pocan
- Ted Poe
- Jared Polis
- Mike Pompeo
- Bill Posey
- David E. Price
- Tom Price
- Mike Quigley
- Trey Radel
- Nick J. Rahall II
- Charles B. Rangel
- Tom Reed
- David G. Reichert
- James B. Renacci
- Reid J. Ribble
- Tom Rice
- Cedric L. Richmond
- E. Scott Rigell
- Martha Roby
- David P. Roe
- Harold Rogers
- Mike Rogers
- Todd Rokita
- Thomas J. Rooney
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Peter J. Roskam
- Dennis A. Ross
- Keith J. Rothfus
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
- Edward R. Royce
- Raul Ruiz
- Jon Runyan
- C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger
- Bobby L. Rush
- Tim Ryan
- Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan
- Matt Salmon
- Linda T. Sánchez
- Loretta Sanchez
- John P. Sarbanes
- Steve Scalise
- Janice D. Schakowsky
- Adam B. Schiff
- Bradley Scott Schneider
- Aaron Schock
- Kurt Schrader
- Allyson Y. Schwartz
- David Schweikert
- Austin Scott
- David Scott
- F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
- José E. Serrano
- Pete Sessions
- Terri A. Sewell
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Brad Sherman
- John Shimkus
- Michael K. Simpson
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Albio Sires
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter
- Christopher H. Smith
- Lamar Smith
- Steve Southerland II
- Jackie Speier
- Steve Stivers
- Steve Stockman
- Marlin A. Stutzman
- Eric Swalwell
- Mark Takano
- Lee Terry
- Glenn Thompson
- Mike Thompson
- Mac Thornberry
- Patrick J. Tiberi
- John F. Tierney
- Scott R. Tipton
- Dina Titus
- Paul Tonko
- Niki Tsongas
- Michael R. Turner
- Fred Upton
- David G. Valadao
- Chris Van Hollen
- Juan Vargas
- Marc A. Veasey
- Filemon Vela
- Nydia M. Velázquez
- Peter J. Visclosky
- Ann Wagner
- Tim Walberg
- Greg Walden
- Jackie Walorski
- Timothy J. Walz
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Maxine Waters
- Daniel Webster
- Peter Welch
- Brad R. Wenstrup
- Lynn A. Westmoreland
- Ed Whitfield
- Roger Williams
- Frederica S. Wilson
- Joe Wilson
- Robert J. Wittman
- Frank R. Wolf
- Steve Womack
- John A. Yarmuth
- Kevin Yoder
- Ted S. Yoho
- C. W. Bill Young
- Don Young
- Todd Young
- Subjects
- Taxation
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Disability and paralysis
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax exclusion
- Medicaid
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Related Bills
- S. 313 (113th) : ABLE Act of 2013
- H.Res. 766 (113th) : Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 5771) to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Extend Certain Expiring Provisions and Make Technical Corrections, and for Other Purposes, and Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 647) to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Provide for the Tax Treatment of ABLE Accounts Established Under State Programs for the Care of Family Members with Disabilities, and for Other Purposes.
- H.R. 5771 (113th) : To Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Extend Certain Expiring Provisions and Make Technical Corrections, to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Provide for the Tax Treatment of ABLE Accounts Established Under State Programs for the Care of Family Members with Disabilities, and for Other Purposes.
- Major Actions
Introduced 2/13/2013 Referred to Committee Passed House 12/03/2014 - Bill History
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Chamber/Committee Motion Date Result currently selected House H.R. 647 (113th): ABLE Act of 2014 12/03/2014 This bill PASSED the House 404 voted YES 17 voted NO 14 voted present/not votingAction Date Description Introduced 2/13/2013 2/13/2013 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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. 2/13/2013 Referred to House Ways and Means 2/13/2013 Referred to House Energy and Commerce 2/13/2013 Introduced in House 2/15/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 7/31/2014 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Put on a legislative calendar 7/31/2014 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. 11/12/2014 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 113-614, Part I. 11/12/2014 Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged. Put on a legislative calendar 11/12/2014 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 456. 12/02/2014 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 766 Reported to House. The rule provides for a closed rule for H.R. 5771 and H.R. 647. 12/03/2014 Rule H. Res. 766 passed House. 12/03/2014 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 766. 12/03/2014 The rule provides for a closed rule for H.R. 5771 and H.R. 647. 12/03/2014 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 647. 12/03/2014 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. 12/03/2014 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 647, the Chair put the question on passage, and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Reichert demanded a the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of passage until a time to be announced. 12/03/2014 Considered as unfinished business. 12/03/2014 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. 12/03/2014 12/03/2014 House amendment offered currently selected House Vote on Passage 12/03/2014 H.R. 647 (113th): ABLE Act of 2014 1/02/2015 LAID ON THE TABLE - Without objection, the Chair announced that H.R. 647 is laid on the table. Number Sponsor Date Offered Status
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