[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 454 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 454

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a 
   tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are 
  performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National 
                                 Guard.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2003

  Mr. Graves 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 provide to employers a 
   tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are 
  performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National 
                                 Guard.

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

SECTION 1. READY RESERVE-NATIONAL GUARD EMPLOYEE CREDIT ADDED TO 
              GENERAL BUSINESS CREDIT.

    (a) Ready Reserve-National Guard Credit.--Subpart D of part IV of 
subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
(relating to business-related credits) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section:

``SEC. 45G. READY RESERVE-NATIONAL GUARD EMPLOYEE CREDIT.

    ``(a) General Rule.--For purposes of section 38, the Ready Reserve-
National Guard employee credit determined under this section for the 
taxable year is an amount equal to 50 percent of the actual 
compensation amount for the taxable year.
    ``(b) Definition of Actual Compensation Amount.--For purposes of 
this section, the term `actual compensation amount' means the amount of 
compensation paid or incurred by an employer with respect to a Ready 
Reserve-National Guard employee on any day during a taxable year when 
the employee was absent from employment for the purpose of performing 
qualified active duty.
    ``(c) Limitation.--No credit shall be allowed under subsection (a) 
with respect to a Ready Reserve-National Guard employee who performs 
qualified active duty on any day on which the employee was not 
scheduled to work (for a reason other than to participate in qualified 
active duty) and ordinarily would not have worked.
    ``(d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) Qualified active duty.--The term `qualified active 
        duty' means--
                    ``(A) active duty, other than the training duty 
                specified in section 10147 of title 10, United States 
                Code (relating to training requirements for the Ready 
                Reserve), or section 502(a) of title 32, United States 
                Code (relating to required drills and field exercises 
                for the National Guard), in connection with which an 
                employee is entitled to reemployment rights and other 
                benefits or to a leave of absence from employment under 
                chapter 43 of title 38, United States Code, and
                    ``(B) hospitalization incident to such duty.
            ``(2) Compensation.--The term `compensation' means any 
        remuneration for employment, whether in cash or in kind, which 
        is paid or incurred by a taxpayer and which is deductible from 
        the taxpayer's gross income under section 162(a)(1).
            ``(3) Ready reserve-national guard employee.--The term 
        `Ready Reserve-National Guard employee' means an employee who 
        is a member of the Ready Reserve or of the National Guard.
            ``(4) National guard.--The term `National Guard' has the 
        meaning given such term by section 101(c)(1) of title 10, 
        United States Code.
            ``(5) Ready reserve.--The term `Ready Reserve' has the 
        meaning given such term by section 10142 of title 10, United 
        States Code.''.
    (b) Credit To Be Part of General Business Credit.--Subsection (b) 
of section 38 of such Code (relating to general business credit) is 
amended by striking ``plus'' at the end of paragraph (14), by striking 
the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting ``, plus'', and 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(16) the Ready Reserve-National Guard employee credit 
        determined under section 45G(a).''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    The table of sections for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of 
chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 45F the following new item:

                              ``Sec. 45G. Ready Reserve-National Guard 
                                        employee credit.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to taxable years 
beginning after December 31, 2002.
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