To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 241.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 241, An act to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami” on January 10, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Estimate of direct spending and revenues effects for the bill as cleared by the Congress on January 6, 2005, and signed by the President on January 7, 2005</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 10, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16217

  CBO publication date

  January 10, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 241, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/241

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43b21895131e8d6052888ffc4e9bcaf3d5331311533b993506a9a822f2b40740

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 241, An act to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami” on January 10, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Estimate of direct spending and revenues effects for the bill as cleared by the Congress on January 6, 2005, and signed by the President on January 7, 2005”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 10, 2005 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16217

  CBO publication date

  January 10, 2005

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 241, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/241

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43b21895131e8d6052888ffc4e9bcaf3d5331311533b993506a9a822f2b40740

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 241, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.