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<dc:title>119 S1927 IS: Helping Ensure Rural Inheritance Transfers Are Generationally Enduring Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. Senate</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2025-06-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<form>
        <distribution-code>II</distribution-code>
        <congress>119th CONGRESS</congress>
        <session>1st Session</session>
        <legis-num>S. 1927</legis-num>
        <current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
        <action>
            <action-date date="20250603">June 3, 2025</action-date>
            <action-desc><sponsor name-id="S395">Mrs. Hyde-Smith</sponsor> introduced the following
                bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSFI00">Committee on Finance</committee-name></action-desc>
        </action>
        <legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
        <official-title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation with
            respect to the aggregate reduction in fair market value of farmland for purposes of
            application of the estate tax.</official-title>
    </form>
    <legis-body>
        <section id="S1" section-type="section-one">
            <enum>1.</enum>
            <header>Short title</header>
 <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Helping Ensure Rural Inheritance Transfers Are Generationally Enduring Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>HERITAGE Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
        </section>
        <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44b518bac914432b8e8a3cc84a574780">
            <enum>2.</enum>
            <header>Increase in limitation on aggregate reduction in fair market value of
                farmland</header>
            <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd192174ce84244cfab967f788c8f858a">
                <enum>(a)</enum>
                <header>In general</header>
 <text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/2032A">Section 2032A(a)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>shall not exceed $750,000</quote> and inserting:</text>
                <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id08f6f9bd214d40f8bd539d730a25a081">
 <text>shall not exceed—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45a0958a483c46afa8aaf19920d051a1"> <enum>(A)</enum> <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of qualified real property which was being used for a qualified use described in subparagraph (A) of subsection (b)(2), $15,000,000, and</text>
                    </subparagraph>
                    <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c6b607a956949e79dc93b4ab8fdb397">
                        <enum>(B)</enum>
 <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of qualified real property which was being used for a qualified use described in subparagraph (B) of such subsection, $750,000.</text>
                    </subparagraph>
                    <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
                </quoted-block>
            </subsection>
            <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21cfe2cfe19c41588f873c1f7f9df64a">
                <enum>(b)</enum>
                <header>Conforming amendment</header>
 <text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/2032A">Section 2032A(a)(3)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c5b0e5e7cb94ab096ba0933b4d279ac"> <enum>(1)</enum> <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the $750,000 amount</quote> and inserting <quote>each dollar amount</quote>, and</text>
                </paragraph>
                <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd2725a5f453a40518d2633a6a32b0eec">
                    <enum>(2)</enum>
 <text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>$750,000</quote> and inserting <quote>such dollar amount</quote>.</text>
                </paragraph>
            </subsection>
            <subsection id="ide36712de1e044018ac7268292bdb5376">
                <enum>(c)</enum>
                <header>Effective date</header>
 <text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to the estates of decedents dying after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
            </subsection>
        </section>
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