House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Incentivizing Small Business Employee Retention Act of 2026
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to certain individuals and to extend and enhance the work opportunity credit, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 16, 2026
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- Passed House—
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Latest action: Sep 16, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10446.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LATIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 146, September 16, 2026, Page H5984):Article I, Section 8, clause 1 (Taxing and Spending Clause)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 16, 2026 ↗
Evidence
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- 59 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10446, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10446
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
4 cosponsors — 4 Democrats
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Lateefah Simon (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. George Latimer.
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- H.R. 9554 (119th) Senior Accessible Housing Tax Credit Act of 2026
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.