Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 2009

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 111th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

TBD BaldwinSponsor

35 cosponsors · 22 D, 13 R

DRR Reichert CKD Kilpatrick JLD Larson TBD Bishop HCD Cuellar JCD Courtney JAR Ann Emerson TPR Platts CSD Shea-Porter LTR Terry CMD Murphy TPR Poe MSR Souder PKR King SLR LaTourette JGR Gerlach SKD Kagen MMD McIntyre BBD Braley EPR Paulsen MCR Castle BSD Stupak SBD Bishop THD Holden PHR Hoekstra PHD Hare GMD Miller TWD Walz CWD Wilson CCD Carney RDD DeLauro DMD Moore TMR Murphy PMD Murphy PTD Tonko

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions allowing a tax exclusion for benefits paid to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical providers by states and local government by: (1) increasing the amount of benefits excludible; and (2) extending such tax exclusion through 2013.