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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 13, 2025

Latest action (Mar 13, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Referred to
Finance Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
DefenseEconomy & Taxes

Summary
  • Makes employers eligible for the federal work opportunity tax credit when they hire spouses of members of the Armed Forces of the United States.
  • Requires military spouses to be certified by a designated local agency as eligible for the credit.
  • Takes effect for hiring occurring after the date of enactment.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
39 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
  2. Mar 13, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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.

  • HR 2033 — Military Spouse Hiring Act · Introduced Mar 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 88%
  • S 2379 — Military Spouse Employment Act of 2018 · Introduced Feb 14, 2018 · Cong. 115 82%
  • S 2639 — Military Spouse Entrepreneurship Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 9848 — Military Spouse Employment and Child Care Readiness Act · Introduced Jul 22, 2026 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 5035 — Veteran and Spouse Licensing Flexibility Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 3371 — Ensuring Security for Military Spouses Act · Introduced May 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 13, 2025

Mr. Kaine (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Rounds, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Warner, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Cotton) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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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