Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 2015

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 114th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

JLD LarsonSponsor

59 cosponsors · 28 D, 31 R

LBR Barletta JCR Carter JCD Courtney RDD DeLauro KED Ellison EED Esty BGR Goodlatte MHD Honda JHD Himes SID Israel BJR Johnson DJR Joyce MKD Kaptur PKR King MKR Kelly AKD Kuster DLD Loebsack LLR Lance JMR Mica BPD Pascrell CPD Pingree TRD Ryan DRR Reichert GTR Thompson PTD Tonko TWD Walz JMD McGovern ESD Swalwell JRR Renacci TCR Cole KRD Rice LSD Slaughter CBD Bustos CPD Peterson RCR Costello BDR Dold RKD Kind PMR Meehan RND Nolan RFR Frelinghuysen DKD Kilmer EBD Blumenauer MAR Amodei ABR Barr MBR Bost TDD Duckworth CCR Collins PDD DeFazio AHR Harris MFR Fitzpatrick JKR Kline LZR Zeldin TWR Walberg CBR Boustany RDR Davis PRR Roskam GGR Graves MPD Pocan RHR Hultgren

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

Amends Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exclusion for benefits paid to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical providers by states and local governments, to: (1) increase the amount of benefits excludible; and (2) make such tax exclusion available for taxable years beginning in 2016, 2017, or 2018.