[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6429 Considered and Passed House (CPH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6429

 To treat payments by charitable organizations with respect to certain 
                    firefighters as exempt payments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2006

   Mrs. Bono (for herself, Mr. Lewis of California, and Mr. Calvert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

                            December 8, 2006

Committee on Ways and Means discharged; which was considered and passed

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                                 A BILL



 To treat payments by charitable organizations with respect to certain 
                    firefighters as exempt payments.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fallen Firefighters Assistance Tax 
Clarification Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENTS BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN 
              FIREFIGHTERS TREATED AS EXEMPT PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--For purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
payments made on behalf of any firefighter who died as the result of 
the October 2006 Esperanza Incident fire in southern California to any 
family member of such firefighter by an organization described in 
paragraph (1) or (2) of section 509(a) of such Code shall be treated as 
related to the purpose or function constituting the basis for such 
organization's exemption under section 501 of such Code if such 
payments are made in good faith using a reasonable and objective 
formula which is consistently applied.
    (b) Application.--Subsection (a) shall apply only to payments made 
on or after October 26, 2006, and before June 1, 2007.
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