House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Main Street Tax Certainty Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction for qualified business income.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 703.
- 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. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H389):Clause 1 of section 8 Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 51 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 703, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/703
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 16, 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 August 16, 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
192 cosponsors — 188 Republicans, 3 Democrats, 1 independent
3 of 192 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Mark Alford (R-MO), Rick Allen (R-GA), Mark Amodei (R-NV), Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Don Bacon (R-NE), James Baird (R-IN), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Andy Barr (R-KY), Tom Barrett (R-MI), Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Nicholas Begich (R-AK), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Sheri Biggs (R-SC), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Mike Carey (R-OH), Earl Carter (R-GA), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Ben Cline (R-VA) and 162 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Smucker.
- H.R. 5284 (119th) Claiming Age Clarity Act
- H.R. 2347 (119th) Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act
- H.R. 5348 (119th) Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 9721 (119th) Fiscal Sponsorship Transparency Act of 2026
- H.R. 6231 (119th) Improve and Enhance the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Act
- H.R. 2013 (119th) Medicare Home Health Accessibility Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.