To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from gross income for civil damages as recompense for trafficking in persons.

United States115th CongressHR-6899House of Representatives
Latest legislative activity: Sep 26, 2018

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Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded to victims of peonage, slavery, or human trafficking.

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S-3504: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from gross income for civil damages as recompense for trafficking in persons.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6343-6346)

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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  2. Introduced in House

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