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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2967 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2967

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the treatment of 
  moving expenses to employees and new appointees in the intelligence 
  community who move pursuant to a change in assignment that requires 
                  relocation, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 28 (legislative day, September 22), 2023

   Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Moran, Ms. Collins, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. Bennet) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the treatment of 
  moving expenses to employees and new appointees in the intelligence 
  community who move pursuant to a change in assignment that requires 
                  relocation, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Intelligence Community Workforce 
Agility Protection Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF TREATMENT OF MOVING EXPENSES.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to facilitate the 
movement of members of the intelligence community to meet mission 
critical needs and to reduce unintended tax burdens imposed on public 
servants in relocating duty stations.
    (b) Deduction.--Section 217(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by inserting ``or an employee or new appointee of the 
intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) (other than a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States) who moves pursuant to a change in 
assignment that requires relocation'' after ``to whom subsection (g) 
applies''.
    (c) Exclusion for Qualified Moving Expense Reimbursements.--Section 
132(g)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting 
``, or an employee or new appointee of the intelligence community (as 
defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3003)) (other than a member of the Armed Forces of the United States) 
who moves pursuant to a change in assignment that requires relocation'' 
after ``change of station''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.

SEC. 3. TRAVELING EXPENSES.

    (a) In General.--The last sentence of subsection (a) of section 162 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting ``, or is 
certified by the Director of National Intelligence (or designee 
thereof) as traveling on behalf of the United States in temporary duty 
status in furtherance of an authorized intelligence activity'' after 
``a Federal crime''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.
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