119-hr1040

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1040 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1040

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in 
 gross income of Social Security benefits.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 6, 2025

 Mr. Massie (for himself, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Ms. Boebert, Mr. 
 Burchett, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Cline, Mr. Cloud, Ms. De La Cruz, Mr. 
Finstad, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Ms. Greene of Georgia, Ms. 
 Hageman, Mr. Harris of Maryland, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mrs. Luna, Mr. 
Mills, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Norman, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Perry, Mr. Roy, 
 Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Weber of 
 Texas, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Wied, Mr. Gosar, and Mr. Begich) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Ways and Means

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 A BILL

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in 
 gross income of Social Security benefits.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Senior Citizens Tax Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF INCLUSION IN GROSS INCOME OF SOCIAL SECURITY 
 BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--

Section 86 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
(relating to social security benefits) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
 ``

    (g) Termination.--This section shall not apply to any taxable 
year beginning after the date of the enactment of this subsection.''.

    (b) Social Security Trust Funds Held Harmless.--

    (1) In general.--There are hereby appropriated (out of any 
 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated) for each 
 fiscal year to each fund under the Social Security Act or the 
 Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 an amount equal to the 
 reduction in the transfers to such fund for such fiscal year by 
 reason of 

section 86

    (g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

    (2) No tax increases.--It is the sense of the Congress that 
 tax increases will not be used to provide the revenue necessary 
 to carry out paragraph

    (1) .
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