I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 769 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 
lower threshold for the refundable portion of the child tax credit and 
to adjust the credit amount for inflation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2013 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. NEAL, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Ms. BROWNLEY 
of California, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. 
CLARKE, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. CROWLEY, 
Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. 
EDWARDS, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. 
GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HONDA, Mr. HOYER, Mr. 
ISRAEL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. HIMES, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KIL-
DEE, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE of California, 
Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. LOFGREN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BEN RAY 
LUJA´N of New Mexico, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. 
MATSUI, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. MENG, Mr. GEORGE 
MILLER of California, Ms. MOORE, Mr. MORAN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. PAS-
CRELL, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. POCAN, Mr. PRICE of North Caro-
lina, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. SABLAN, Ms. LINDA T. 
SA´NCHEZ
of California, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. 
SERRANO, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. SLAUGH-
TER, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. TONKO, Ms. WATERS, 
Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WELCH, and Mrs. DAVIS of California) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently 
extend the lower threshold for the refundable portion 
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of the child tax credit and to adjust the credit amount 
for inflation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Tax Credit Per-
manency Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS OF THE CHILD TAX CREDIT. 
(a) PERMANENT EXTENSION.— 
(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—Clause 
(i) 
of 
section 
24(d)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$3,000’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section 
24(d) of such Code is amended by striking para-
graphs (3) and (4). 
(b) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.—Section 24 of such 
Code is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(g) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.—In the case of any 
taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 2013, the 
$1,000 amount contained in subsection (a) shall be in-
creased by an amount equal to— 
‘‘(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by 
‘‘(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined 
under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which 
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the taxable year begins, determined by substituting 
‘calendar year 2012’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in sub-
paragraph (B) thereof. 
Any increase determined under the preceding sentence 
shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $50.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2012. 
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