The record

LegislationLegislation· Dec 2024
HR 9495

Sponsored by Claudia Tenney (R)

Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act

Would have paused tax deadlines for Americans held abroad as hostages and refunded their penalties.

Tradeoff

Would have paused tax deadlines and refunded penalties for Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. Also would have stripped tax-exempt status from groups that support terrorist organizations.

What's in it

See official bill text

Negligible change in revenues and less than $500,000 in federal implementation costs over 2025-2029 (JCT and CBO estimates).

The small federal cost is administrative work to run the refund program and terrorism-designation procedures, while the bill's real effects fall on detained Americans seeking refunds and on organizations that could lose tax-exempt status for supporting terrorism.

H.R. 9495, Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act · Oct 2024

The House passed it 219-184 on November 21, 2024, and the Senate never voted before the bill expired.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Sep 9, 2024)

  2. House

    Committee on Ways and Means(Sep 9, 2024)

  3. House

    The Committee on Ways and Means voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 38 - 0(Sep 11, 2024)

    Committee report H. Rept. 118-729.

  4. House

    On Motion to and Pass, as Amended

    Failed(Roll #458 · Nov 12, 2024)

    256 yeanay 145

  5. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed(Roll #477 · Nov 21, 2024)

    219 yeanay 184

  6. Senate

    Received from the House

    Received(Dec 2, 2024)

Passage votes· Nov 21, 2024· 118th Congress · 2023–2025