2025 bills / H.B. 389
H.B. 389 Child Care Business Tax Credit (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a new income tax credit for businesses that provide child care to their employees, for both corporate and individual income taxpayers. The credit can reduce tax owed but cannot produce a refund beyond what is owed, and the bill also makes some technical and conforming changes to related law.
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Official description
- enacts nonrefundable corporate and individual income tax credits for employer-provided child care
- makes technical and conforming changes
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- An alert the day H.B. 389 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
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- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 1 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 noHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 3 noHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how