A bill to provide tax relief with respect to certain wildfire relief payments.
Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation After Fire Act
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received by an individual taxpayer as a qualified wildfire relief payment. Such payments are compensation for losses, expenses, or damages (including compensation for additional living expenses, certain lost wages, personal injury, death, or emotional distress) incurred as a result of a qualified wildfire disaster. The exclusion only apples to payments received after 2019, and before January 1, 2026.
Became Public Law No: 118-148.
Motion by Senator Schumer to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Record Vote No. 230) made in Senate.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S311)
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