H.R. 1257105th CongressHouse Bill

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow every individual (other than a nonresident alien) whose adjusted income tax liability for the…

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish, and provide a checkoff for, a Biomedical Research Fund, and for other purposes.

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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow every individual (other than a nonresident alien) whose adjusted income tax liability for the taxable year is $5 or more, to designate that $5 be paid over to the Biomedical Research Fund. Establishes in the Treasury the Biomedical Research Fund.

Introduced Apr 9, 1997
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Michael Forbes

Republican

U.S. Representative · NY-1

1 cosponsor — all Republican

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