H.R. 5376 - 117th Congress (2021-2022) - Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, child care, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. (The bill is commonly referred to as the Build Back Better Act.)

For example, the bill provides funding for

management of the National Forest System;
job placement and career services;
safe drinking water, energy-efficiency, and weatherization projects;
electric vehicles and zero-emission, heavy-duty vehicles;
public health infrastructure and supply chain resiliency;
housing, rental, and homeowner assistance programs;
cybersecurity programs;
tribal infrastructure, housing, environmental, and health programs;
wildfire prevention, drought relief, conservation efforts, and climate change research;
small business assistance and development;
transit services and clean energy projects in low-income communities; and
infrastructure and administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Additionally, the bill establishes programs to provide

up to six semesters of free community college,
free child care for children under the age of six,
free universal preschool services, and
health benefits for eligible individuals who reside in states that have not expanded Medicaid.

The bill also includes provisions that

establish a methane fee for certain petroleum and natural gas facilities;
expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and vision care;
provide certain aliens with a path to permanent resident status (e.g., those who entered the United States as minors);
provide up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave;
restructure and increase the tax rates for certain corporations and high-income individuals (e.g., individuals with income over $400,000); and
require the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate maximum prices for certain brand-name drugs under Medicare.

Text (5)

Enrolled Bill

Engrossed Amendment Senate

August 7, 2022

Placed on Calendar Senate

August 3, 2022

Engrossed in House

November 19, 2021

Reported in House

September 27, 2021

Amendments (295)

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Aug 07, 2022

Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5488 to Senate Amendment 5194

To strike the extension of the limitation on State and local taxes and extend the limitation on excess business losses of noncorporate taxpayers, and for other purposes.

Agreed To

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5487 to Senate Amendment 5194

Of a perfecting nature.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5480 to Senate Amendment 5194

To establish a procedure for terminating a determination by Surgeon General to suspend certain entries and imports from designated places.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5472 to Senate Amendment 5194

To remove harmful small business taxes, and for other purposes.

Agreed To

Aug 06, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5469 to Senate Amendment 5194

To eliminate the reinstatement of Superfund taxes.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5435 to Senate Amendment 5194

To replace the funding for the Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer with a $500,000,000 appropriation for the construction or improvement of primary pedestrian fencing and barriers along the southwest border.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5421 to Senate Amendment 5194

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the maximum capital gains tax rate, to provide a partial exclusion for interest received by individuals, to provide inflation adjustments for certain tax benefits, and for other purposes.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5418 to Senate Amendment 5194

To end the President's War on Coal through the approval of coal leases.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5409 to Senate Amendment 5194

To require certain additional onshore oil and gas lease sales in certain states.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5404 to Senate Amendment 5194

To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5389 to Senate Amendment 5194

To protect patient access to current and future treatments for a range of serious conditions, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's disease, and sickle cell disease, among numerous others.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5387 to Senate Amendment 5194

To require oil and gas lease sales in the outer Continental Shelf.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5385 to Senate Amendment 5194

To provide for discounted insulin for low- and middle-income Americans.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5384 to Senate Amendment 5194

To provide additional funding for implementation of title 42.

Active

Aug 06, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5383 to Senate Amendment 5194

To expedite consideration of permits and provide regulatory certainty for infrastructure and energy projects.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5382 to Senate Amendment 5194

To strike provisions concerning funding for certain activities under the Clean Air Act.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5316 to Senate Amendment 5194

To reduce funding for home energy performance-based, whole-house rebates and to provide funding for supplemental payments under the payments in lieu of taxes program.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5301 to Senate Amendment 5194

To strike a tax increase that would result in higher consumer prices for gasoline, heating oil, and other energy sources for Americans earning less than $400,000 per year.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5281 to Senate Amendment 5194

To modify the bill.

Active

Aug 06, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5265 to Senate Amendment 5194

To provide for certain conditions on the export to China of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5263 to Senate Amendment 5194

To strike the $80,000,000,000 slush fund for the Internal Revenue Service to prevent the hiring of 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service employees that will surveil and audit the private account information and transaction data of innocent Americans and small businesses.

Active

Aug 06, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5262 to Senate Amendment 5194

To make health care coverage available to low-income adults in States that have not expanded Medicaid.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5211 to Senate Amendment 5194

To provide coverage for dental and oral health care, hearing care, and vision care under the Medicare program.

Active

Aug 06, 2022

Submitted in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5210 to Senate Amendment 5194

To establish a cap on costs for covered prescription drugs under Medicare parts B and D.

Submitted

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5209 to Senate Amendment 5194

To establish a Civilian Climate Corps.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Not Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5208 to Senate Amendment 5194

To extend the special rules for the child tax credit that applied for 2021 and to increase the corporate tax rate.

Active

Aug 07, 2022

Agreed to in Senate

Sponsorship

Senate Amendment 5194

In the nature of a substitute.

Agreed To

Amendments

Actions (53)

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08/16/2022

Became Public Law No: 117-169.

08/16/2022

Signed by President.

08/15/2022

Presented to President.

08/12/2022

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

08/12/2022

On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 220 - 207 (Roll no. 420). (text: CR H7577-7646)

08/12/2022

Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 220 - 207 (Roll no. 420).

08/12/2022

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

08/12/2022

Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res.1316, House proceeded with 3 hours of debate on the Yarmuth motion to agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376.

08/12/2022

Mr. Yarmuth moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H7577-7704)

08/08/2022

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

08/07/2022

Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 50. Record Vote Number: 325.

08/07/2022

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 50. Record Vote Number: 325.

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Hagerty to commit to Senate Committee on the Judiciary with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 322. (CR S4199)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Rubio to commit to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 319. (CR S4196-4197)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Blackburn to commit to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 318. (CR S4196)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Hoeven to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 317. (CR S4195)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Cruz to commit to Senate Committee on the Judiciary with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 316. (CR S4194-4195)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Cruz to commit to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49 - 51. Record Vote Number: 315. (CR S4194)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Scott SC, to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 307. (CR S4186)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Rubio to commit to Senate Committee on the Judiciary with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 304. (CR S4184-4185)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Collins to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 302. (CR S4183-4184)

08/07/2022

Motion by Senator Scott FL, to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 297. (CR S4180)

08/06/2022

Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S4070-4152, S4154-4164, S4168-4201)

08/06/2022

Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 50. Record Vote Number: 287. (CR S4070)

08/04/2022

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.

08/03/2022

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 464.

08/02/2022

Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

11/19/2021

Motion to reconsider laid on the table.

11/19/2021

On motion to table the motion to reconsider Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 105 (Roll no. 386).

11/19/2021

Mr. McGovern moved to table the motion to reconsider the vote.

11/19/2021

Mr. Neal moved to reconsider the vote.

11/19/2021

Motion to reconsider laid upon the table. Objection heard.

11/19/2021

On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 220 - 213 (Roll no. 385). (text: 11/18/2021 CR H6375-6576)

11/19/2021

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 220 - 213 (Roll no. 385).(text: 11/18/2021 CR H6375-6576)

11/19/2021

On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 220 (Roll no. 384).

11/19/2021

The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.

11/19/2021

Mr. Brady moved to recommit to the Committee on the Budget. (text: CR H6665)

11/19/2021

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

11/19/2021

DEBATE - Pursuant to H.Res. 774, the House proceeded with further debate on H.R. 5376.

11/19/2021

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6659-6667)

11/19/2021

Pursuant to clause 1(c) of Rule XIX, the House resumed consideration of H.R. 5376.

11/19/2021

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of Rule XIX, further consideration of H.R. 5376 is postponed.

11/18/2021

DEBATE - Pursuant to H.Res 774, the House proceeded with further debate on H.R. 5376.

11/18/2021

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6615-6658)

11/18/2021

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of Rule XIX, further consideration of H.R. 5376 is postponed.

11/18/2021

DEBATE - The House proceeded with two hours of debate on H.R. 5376.

11/18/2021

Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5376 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments.

11/18/2021

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 774. (consideration: CR H6375-6595)

11/06/2021

Rule H. Res. 774 passed House.

11/05/2021

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 774 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5376 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments.

09/27/2021

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 94.

09/27/2021

The House Committee on the Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 117-130, by Mr. Yarmuth.

09/27/2021

Introduced in House

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