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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5811" measure-id="id113hr5811" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-12-09" update-date="2015-01-07">
<title>Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act</title>
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<action-date>2014-12-09</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and emergency rescue services rendered by a bona fide volunteer as a charitable contribution to the organization for which such services are rendered for purposes of the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Limits to 300 the amount of hours of services which a volunteer may render to an organization in a taxable year. </p>]]></summary-text>
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