Smoke Free Affordable Housing Act

Bill: 116-hr-4689
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2019-10-16
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Income tax credits

Low- and moderate-income housing
Latest action: action_date: 2019-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-10-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Smoke Free Affordable Housing Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the low-income housing tax credit, to require state allocation plans to include a preference for allocating dollar amounts of the credit to projects consisting only of buildings in which smoking is not permitted.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4689 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 16, 2019 Mrs. Hartzler 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 require that States give preference in allocating low-income housing credit dollar amounts to projects which are committed to providing non-smoking buildings.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Smoke Free Affordable Housing Act . 2. Low-income housing credit allocation preference for non-smoking buildings (a) In general Section 42(m)(1)(B)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subclause: (IV) projects consisting only of buildings in which smoking is not permitted, and . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall apply to allocations made after the date of the enactment of this Act.