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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="7504" measure-id="id117hr7504" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2022-04-14" update-date="2022-04-21">
        <title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make a portion of research credit refundable for certain small businesses engaging in specified medical research.</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr7504v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2022-04-21">
            <action-date>2022-04-14</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p>This bill allows for the refundability of a portion of the tax credit for increasing research activities for small businesses (gross receipts not exceeding $1 million) engaged in specified medical research. Under the Public Health Service Act, <em>specified medical research</em> means research with respect to qualified countermeasures (i.e., a drug, biological product, or device for preventing harm from any biological agent or from a condition that may result in adverse health consequences or death).</p>]]></summary-text>
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