[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 147 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 147

              To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2013

  Mr. Thornberry (for himself, Mr. Barton, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. 
   Conaway, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Sessions, Mr. 
Womack, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Graves 
 of Georgia, Mr. Jones, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Rokita, 
 Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Olson, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Rogers 
      of Alabama, Mr. Issa, Mr. Hall, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Turner, Mr. 
  Sensenbrenner, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Smith of Texas, and Mr. 
    Yoder) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
              To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.

    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 ``Death Tax Repeal Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF ESTATE AND GIFT TAXES.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
(relating to estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes) is hereby 
repealed.
    (b) Effective Date.--The repeal made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to estates of decedents dying, gifts made, and generation-skipping 
transfers made after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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