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<item congress="116" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5293" measure-id="id116hr5293" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2019-12-03" update-date="2020-04-24">
<title>Universal Charitable Giving Act of 2019</title>
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<action-date>2019-12-03</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Universal Charitable Giving Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill allows individual taxpayers a deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) for charitable contributions even if such taxpayers do not elect to itemize deductions for the taxable year. The deduction may not exceed one-third of the taxpayer's standard deduction amount.</p>]]></summary-text>
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