House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Independent Programmers Tax Incentive Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for carriage of independent programmers by certain multichannel video programming distributors.
Sponsor: Rep. W. Steube R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 18, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 18, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2230.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEUBE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 50, March 18, 2025, Page H1173):Article I Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2230, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2230
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 9, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 May 9, 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
19 cosponsors — 10 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 19 cosponsors (47%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Earl Carter (R-GA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Carol Miller (R-WV), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), David Valadao (R-CA), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. W. Steube.
- H.R. 5366 (119th) Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act
- H.R. 6495 (119th) Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
- H.R. 9498 (119th) Taxpayer Advocate Participation Act
- H.R. 28 (119th) Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
- H.R. 1028 (119th) Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 2026
- H.R. 539 (119th) Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.