House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Improve and Enhance the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 14, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 14, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6833.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMUCKER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 206, December 14, 2023, Page H6988):Clause 3 of section 8 article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and enhance the work opportunity tax credit, to encourage longer- service employment, and to modernize the credit to make it more effective as a hiring incentive for targeted workers.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 14, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 332 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6833, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6833
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
8 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 8 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Smucker.
- H.R. 6957 (118th) Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act
- H.R. 8290 (118th) Foreign Grant Reporting Act
- H.R. 5688 (118th) Bipartisan HSA Improvement Act of 2023
- H.R. 9461 (118th) USA Workforce Investment Act
- H.R. 4721 (118th) Main Street Tax Certainty Act
- H.R. 3029 (118th) Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2023
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.