Title: Putting First Responders First Act
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Putting First Responders First Act
This bill modifies the requirements for calculating taxable income to allow first responders to exclude from gross income certain service-connected disability payments received as part of a pension or annuity. The bill applies to law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2560 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2560

     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain 
   disability-related first responder retirement payments from gross 
                                income.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2019

      Mr. Norman (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
Ruppersberger, Ms. Sherrill, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Cole, and Mr. Gianforte) 
 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 of 1986 to exclude certain 
   disability-related first responder retirement payments from gross 
                                income.

    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 ``Putting First Responders First 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN DISABILITY-RELATED FIRST RESPONDER 
              RETIREMENT PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Part III of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 
139B the following new section:

``SEC. 139C. CERTAIN DISABILITY-RELATED FIRST RESPONDER RETIREMENT 
              PAYMENTS.

    ``(a) In General.--In the case of an individual who receives 
qualified first responder retirement payments for any taxable year, 
gross income shall not include so much of such payments as do not 
exceed the annualized excludable disability amount with respect to such 
individual.
    ``(b) Qualified First Responder Retirement Payments.--For purposes 
of this section, the term `qualified first responder retirement 
payments' means, with respect to any taxable year, any pension or 
annuity which but for this section would be includible in gross income 
for such taxable year and which is received--
            ``(1) from a plan described in clause (iii), (iv), (v), or 
        (vi) of section 402(c)(8)(B), and
            ``(2) in connection with such individual's qualified first 
        responder service.
    ``(c) Annualized Excludable Disability Amount.--For purposes of 
this section--
            ``(1) In general.--The term `annualized excludable 
        disability amount' means, with respect to any individual, the 
        service-connected excludable disability amounts which are 
        properly attributable to the 12-month period immediately 
        preceding the date on which such individual attains retirement 
        age.
            ``(2) Service-connected excludable disability amount.--The 
        term `service-connected excludable disability amount' means 
        periodic payments received by an individual which--
                    ``(A) are not includible in such individual's gross 
                income under section 104(a)(1),
                    ``(B) are received in connection with such 
                individual's qualified first responder service, and
                    ``(C) terminate when such individual attains 
                retirement age.
            ``(3) Special rule for partial-year payments.--In the case 
        of an individual who only receives service-connected excludable 
        disability amounts properly attributable to a portion of the 
        12-month period described in paragraph (1), such paragraph 
        shall be applied by multiplying such amounts by the ratio of 
        365 to the number of days in such period to which such amounts 
        were properly attributable.
    ``(d) Qualified First Responder Service.--For purposes of this 
section, the term `qualified first responder service' means service as 
a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or emergency medical 
technician.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for part III of 
subchapter B of chapter 1 is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 139B the following new item:

``Sec. 139C. Certain disability-related first responder retirement 
                            payments.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to amounts received with respect to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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