Bills About Taxation Sponsored by Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)

Sen. Cruz sponsored 24 bills about taxation in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced	Number	Title	Cosponsors	Cosponsor Party	Latest Action
Aug. 6, 2020	S.4505	A bill to provide one-time grants to parents and guardians for student education expenses, to establish emergency education freedom grants, and to provide tax credits for donations to eligible scholarship-granting organizations, and for other purposes.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
July 30, 2020	S.4376	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax deduction at the time an investment in qualified property is made, and for other purposes.	1	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
July 23, 2020	S.4297	A bill to allow participants in certain retirement plans to delay their 2020 contributions to such plans to 2021 or 2022, and for other purposes.	3	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
June 16, 2020	S.3966	A bill to provide a tax credit to businesses that provide testing for COVID-19 to their employees.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
June 11, 2020	S.3949	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account during the Coronavirus Emergency Period.	3	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2936)
May 12, 2020	S.3694	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax deduction at the time an investment is made in property used to extract critical minerals and metals from the United States, to modify the prohibition on the acquisition of certain sensitive materials from non-allied foreign nations, and for other purposes.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
March 19, 2020	S.3546	A bill to waive high deductible health plan requirements for health savings accounts.	2	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec. 19, 2019	S.3112	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and improve health savings accounts, and for other purposes.	3	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 2, 2019	S.1282	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain rules related to the determination of unrelated business taxable income.	5	Bipartisan	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
April 11, 2019	S.1162	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax provisions of the tax reform law, and for other purposes.	6	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb. 28, 2019	S.634	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish tax credits to encourage individual and corporate taxpayers to contribute to scholarships for students through eligible scholarship-granting organizations and eligible workforce training organizations, and for other purposes.	16	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan. 16, 2019	S.157	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account.	12	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug. 1, 2018	S.3317	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain rules related to the determination of unrelated business taxable income.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
June 21, 2018	S.3102	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account.	8	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
April 17, 2018	S.2688	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the indexing of certain assets for purposes of determining gain or loss.	2	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
April 17, 2018	S.2687	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax provisions of the tax reform law, and for other purposes.	1	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan. 10, 2018	S.2291	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax rates in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan. 4, 2018	S.2281	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax rates in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025.	0		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sept. 28, 2017	S.1892	A bill to provide tax relief related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.	2	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan. 28, 2015	S.274	A bill to prohibit the Department of the Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political beliefs and activities.	4	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan. 22, 2015	S.249	A bill to provide that members of the Armed Forces performing hazardous humanitarian services in West Africa to combat the spread of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone.	2	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Nov. 20, 2014	S.2965	A bill to provide that members of the Armed Forces performing hazardous humanitarian services in West Africa to combat the spread of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone.	1	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb. 27, 2014	S.2067	A bill to prohibit the Department of the Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political beliefs and activities.	3	All Republicans	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 312.
Feb. 27, 2014	S.2072	A bill to prohibit the Department of the Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political beliefs and activities.	1	All Republicans	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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