[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 475 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 475

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code to qualify formerly homeless youth 
    who are students for purposes of low income housing tax credit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2009

  Mr. Ellison (for himself, Mr. Walz, Mr. Oberstar, and Ms. McCollum) 
 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 to qualify formerly homeless youth 
    who are students for purposes of low income housing tax credit.

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

SECTION 1. FORMERLY HOMELESS YOUTH WHO ARE STUDENTS QUALIFIED FOR 
              PURPOSES OF LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.

    (a) In General.--Clause (i) of section 42(i)(3)(D) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subclauses (II) and 
(III) as subclauses (III) and (IV), respectively, and by inserting 
after subclause (I) the following new subclause:
                                    ``(II) a student who previously was 
                                a homeless child or youth (as defined 
                                by section 725 of the McKinney-Vento 
                                Homeless Assistance Act),''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to determinations made before, on, or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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