To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate certain tax benefits for educational expenses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements to the child tax credit, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3393.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3393, Student and Family Tax Simplification Act” on July 8, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 25, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 8, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45506

  CBO publication date

  July 8, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3393, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3393

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-526 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on July 17, 2014.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 17, 2014 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/526

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3393, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3393

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BLACK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6955):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debt and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  295 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3393, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3393

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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