Tax Treatment for Individuals Performing Services in Certain Hazardous Duty Areas — H.R.2778 BY BUNNING (R-KY) -- TAX BENEFIT FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL SERVING IN BOSNIA, PROVISION (PUB. L. 104-117, APPROVED 3/20/96) (HOUSE VOTED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 2778, AMENDED, TO PROVIDE THAT MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES PERFORMING SERVICES FOR THE PEACEKEEPING EFFORT IN THE REPUBLICS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA SHALL BE ENTITLED TO CERTAIN TAX BENEFITS IN THE SAME MANNER AS IF SUCH SERVICES WERE PERFORMED IN A COMBAT ZONE. .)

The measure

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

• TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

  model(0.95): Providing tax benefits to military service members in hazardous duty areas cuts taxes for those individuals.

  Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

  Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

• Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

  excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Providing tax relief to deployed military personnel is a tax policy matter rather than military expansion or restraint.

  Tagged by: keyword:armed forces

  Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.