Student Loan Tax Debt Relief Act

Bill: 114-hr-2429
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-19
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Student Loan Tax Debt Relief Act</strong></p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of student loan indebtedness to include indebtedness discharged pursuant to income-contingent and income-based repayment plans.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2429 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 19, 2015 Mr. McDermott (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Langevin , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Rangel , Mr. Conyers , Ms. Norton , Mr. Vargas , Mr. DeFazio , Mr. Honda , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Brownley of California , Mr. Van Hollen , Ms. Moore , Mr. Rush , Mr. Meeks , Mr. Hinojosa , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , Mr. Gutiérrez , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mrs. Capps , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Welch , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Larson of Connecticut , Mr. Doggett , Mr. McNerney , Mr. Larsen of Washington , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania , Mr. Cicilline , Mr. Cummings , Mr. Kind , and Mr. Smith of Washington ) 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 exclude from gross income any discharge of income contingent and income-based student loan indebtedness.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student Loan Tax Debt Relief Act . 2. Exclusion from gross income for discharge of income contingent and income-based student loan indebtedness (a) In general Paragraph (1) of section 108(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows: (1) In general In the case of an individual, gross income does not include any amount which (but for this subsection) would be includible in gross income by reason of the discharge (in whole or in part) of any student loan if such discharge was pursuant to— (A) a provision of such loan under which all or part of the indebtedness of the individual would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions for any of a broad class of employers, or (B) subsections (d)(1)(D) and (e)(7) of section 455 or section 493C(b)(7) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (relating to income contingent and income-based repayment, respectively). . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to discharges of indebtedness after the date of the enactment of this Act.