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Clarifies how the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act applies to Coast Guard members by replacing generic references to “the Secretary” with the specific official who has authority (the Secretary of Defense, or for the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of Transportation as appropriate). It also requires agencies to identify and correct any federal income tax amounts that were improperly withheld from Coast Guard severance payments and sets deadlines for that identification and correction.
The change is a targeted technical fix tied to the existing law that governs tax treatment of severance for combat-injured service members; it does not create new benefit programs or change underlying tax rates, but clarifies which department head is responsible for administering and remedying improper withholdings for Coast Guard members when the Coast Guard is not under the Department of the Navy.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced April 21, 2025 by Don Davis · Last progress April 21, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House