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Military Spouse Hiring Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit.

Introduced Mar 11, 2025

Latest action (Mar 11, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
Defense

Summary

The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make spouses of active-duty military personnel eligible for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which allows employers to claim a tax credit for hiring individuals from targeted groups. An employer can claim the credit for hiring a "qualified military spouse," defined as any individual certified by a designated local agency as being the spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at the time of hiring. The tax credit applies to wages paid or incurred after the bill's enactment for new employees who begin work after that date. This expands the existing Work Opportunity Tax Credit program to include military spouses as an additional eligible category.

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Sponsor (1)
127 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 11, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Mar 11, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1027 — Military Spouse Hiring Act · Introduced Mar 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 88%
  • S 2379 — Military Spouse Employment Act of 2018 · Introduced Feb 14, 2018 · Cong. 115 72%
  • HR 2801 — Honor and Hire Veterans Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 5035 — Veteran and Spouse Licensing Flexibility Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 9848 — Military Spouse Employment and Child Care Readiness Act · Introduced Jul 22, 2026 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 4351 — To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to reduce the qualifying time for a spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces to take leave. · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 11, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 11, 2025

Mr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Casten, Ms. Pingree, Mrs. Bice, Ms. Chu, Mrs. McBath, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Costa, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Military Spouse Hiring Act”.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF SPOUSES OF MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR THE WORK OPPORTUNITY CREDIT.

(a) In General.—Paragraph (1) of section 51(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking “or” at the end of subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (J) and inserting “, or”, and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(K) a qualified military spouse.”.

(b) Qualified Military Spouse.—Subsection (d) of section 51 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(16) Qualified military spouse.—The term ‘qualified military spouse’ means any individual who is certified by the designated local agency as being (as of the hiring date) a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States.”.

(c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to amounts paid or incurred after the date of the enactment of this Act to individuals who begin work for the employer after such date. <all>

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