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Rep. Crockett, Jasmine [D-TX-30] · D–TX
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-06 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed HIRE CREDIT Act would expand an employer tax credit for hiring people displaced by qualifying disasters. To qualify, a worker would need local agency certification that the disaster made both their home uninhabitable and their previous workplace inoperable, and that they were unemployed. Eligibility would be temporary, and wages for certain work outside the disaster area would be excluded.
This Act may be cited as the Helping Increase Realtime Employment for Communities Recovering from Emergency Disasters for an Interim Time Act or as the HIRE CREDIT Act.
2. Work opportunity tax credit for hiring displaced disaster victims
The term displaced disaster victim means any individual who is certified by the designated local agency— (i) as having a principal residence (as defined in section 1033(h)(4)) in a qualified disaster zone which was rendered uninhabitable as a result of the qualified disaster with respect to such qualified disaster zone, (ii) as being employed (immediately prior to the incident period with respect to such qualified disaster) at a location in such qualified disaster zone which was rendered inoperable as a result of such qualified disaster, and (iii) as being in a period of unemployment.
The term displaced disaster victim shall not include any individual unless the hiring date with respect to such individual is before the date which is 1 year after the last day of the incident period with respect to the qualified disaster referred to in subparagraph (A).
If the principal place of employment by the taxpayer of any displaced disaster victim is outside of the qualified disaster zone with respect to such individual, the term qualified wages shall not include any amount paid or incurred by such employer as compensation for the services of such individual with respect any calendar week if such individual provided 30 or more hours of services to such employer during such week.
Section 2 would add displaced disaster victims to the worker categories covered by the work opportunity tax credit. The designated local agency would have to certify all three conditions: an uninhabitable principal home in the disaster area, employment immediately before the disaster period at a workplace in that area made inoperable by the disaster, and a period of unemployment.
Section 51(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking or at the end of subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (J) and inserting , or, and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (K) a displaced disaster victim.
The term displaced disaster victim means any individual who is certified by the designated local agency— (i) as having a principal residence (as defined in section 1033(h)(4)) in a qualified disaster zone which was rendered uninhabitable as a result of the qualified disaster with respect to such qualified disaster zone, (ii) as being employed (immediately prior to the incident period with respect to such qualified disaster) at a location in such qualified disaster zone which was rendered inoperable as a result of such qualified disaster, and (iii) as being in a period of unemployment.
Normally, the worker would have to be hired before the date one year after the disaster period ends. A separate transition rule would adjust this deadline for disasters whose periods ended before enactment.
The term displaced disaster victim shall not include any individual unless the hiring date with respect to such individual is before the date which is 1 year after the last day of the incident period with respect to the qualified disaster referred to in subparagraph (A).
In the case of any qualified disaster the incident period of which ends before the date of the enactment of this Act— (1) section 51(d)(16)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied by substituting the date of the enactment of this Act for the last day and all that follows
A qualifying disaster area would need both a presidential major-disaster declaration and a presidential determination that it warrants federal assistance to individuals, either alone or together with public assistance. Both actions would have to occur on or after January 1, 2024. The qualifying disaster would be the one that prompted the declaration.
The term qualified disaster zone means any area— (i) with respect to which a major disaster was declared, on or after January 1, 2024, by the President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and (ii) which was determined by the President, on or after January 1, 2024, to warrant individual or individual and public assistance from the Federal Government under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act by reason of the qualified disaster with respect to such disaster area.
The term qualified disaster means, with respect to any qualified disaster zone, the disaster by reason of which a major disaster was declared with respect to such area.
The disaster's “incident period” would mean the period during which the Federal Emergency Management Agency says the disaster occurred. For these eligibility rules, that period could not be treated as starting before January 1, 2024.
The term incident period means, with respect to any qualified disaster, the period specified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the period during which such disaster occurred (except that for purposes of this paragraph such period shall not be treated as beginning before January 1, 2024).
If the worker's principal workplace with the hiring employer were outside the qualifying disaster area, compensation for any calendar week in which the worker provided that employer 30 or more hours of services would be excluded from qualified wages—the wages eligible to count toward the credit.
If the principal place of employment by the taxpayer of any displaced disaster victim is outside of the qualified disaster zone with respect to such individual, the term qualified wages shall not include any amount paid or incurred by such employer as compensation for the services of such individual with respect any calendar week if such individual provided 30 or more hours of services to such employer during such week.
If enacted, the amendments would apply to people who began work for the employer on or after January 1, 2024, including qualifying work begun before enactment.
The amendments made by this section shall apply to individuals who begin work for the employer on or after January 1, 2024.
For a qualifying disaster whose incident period ended before enactment, the transition rule would move the hiring deadline to before the date one year after enactment.
The term displaced disaster victim shall not include any individual unless the hiring date with respect to such individual is before the date which is 1 year after the last day of the incident period with respect to the qualified disaster referred to in subparagraph (A).
In the case of any qualified disaster the incident period of which ends before the date of the enactment of this Act— (1) section 51(d)(16)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied by substituting the date of the enactment of this Act for the last day and all that follows
For those pre-enactment disasters, another transition rule addresses people who started work before enactment. It directs a determination under section 51(d)(15)(A)(iii) using the period before work began. That reference differs from the proposed unemployment condition in new paragraph (16), leaving uncertainty about how this rule would operate.
In the case of any qualified disaster the incident period of which ends before the date of the enactment of this Act—
in the case of an individual who begins work for the employer before the date of the enactment of this Act, section 51(d)(15)(A)(iii) shall be determined with respect to the period before the date on which such individual so begins such work.
(16) Displaced disaster victim (A) In general
(iii) as being in a period of unemployment.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated May 8, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Ways and Means on March 6, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-05-08T14:02:06Z. 2025-03-06: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. 2025-03-06: Introduced in House
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-03-06. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
None identified in the reviewed text
No unrelated provision or policy change attached to appropriations was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
None identified in the reviewed text
No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish formal earmark status in accompanying materials.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
None identified in the reviewed text
No separate narrow carve-out or preferential exception was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. The proposed credit's eligibility rules define its intended beneficiaries. This conclusion does not extend to other versions or accompanying materials.
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