119th Congress Taxation
H.R. 782: Reignite Hope Act of 2025
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Summary
This bill establishes a new nonrefundable personal tax credit (for three years) of $3,500 for critical employees. The bill also increases and makes other changes to the child tax credit.
Under the bill, a critical employee is defined as an individual who works full-time for at least 75% of the tax year (as certified by such individual’s employer) as a
- healthcare professional,
- law enforcement officer,
- member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew,
- firefighter,
- eligible child care provider,
- family child care provider, or
- personal or homecare aid.
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Further, under the bill, such individual’s primary place of employment for the majority of hours worked during the tax year must be in a qualified opportunity zone. (A qualified opportunity zone is an economically distressed community where new investments may be eligible for certain tax preferences.)
This bill increases the child tax credit from $2,000 per qualifying child to $3,500 per qualifying child (or $4,500 per qualifying child under six years old).
The bill also
- increases the age limit of a qualifying child to 17 years old (from 16 years old),
- extends the threshold at which the child tax credit begins to phase out ($200,000 for single taxpayers or $400,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly),
- extends the child tax credit identification requirements applicable to qualifying children, and
- increases the refundable portion of the child tax credit for certain taxpayers with fewer than three qualifying children.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Juan Ciscomani R-AZOriginal
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History
- Introduced in the House by John James.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.