[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 198 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 198

              To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

 Mr. Thornberry (for himself, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. 
  Huizenga, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Abraham, Mr. 
    Cramer, Mr. Cook, Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. 
Crawford, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Arrington, 
   Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Massie, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Lance, Mr. 
Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Bridenstine, Mr. 
   Yoho, Mr. Olson, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mrs. 
      Wagner, Mr. Long, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Graves of Missouri, Mr. 
Luetkemeyer, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Turner, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Harper, Mr. 
   McClintock, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Smith of Texas) 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 of 2017''.

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repealed.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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