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+ Our new State Legislative Tracker provides fiscal and distributional analysis of state tax bills. Each bill includes revenue estimates, poverty impacts, winners and losers by income decile, congressional district breakdowns, and custom household impact calculators. +

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+ + New York S9077: Empire State Child Credit Expansion + + +

+ Expands the Empire State Child Credit while extending it through 2030+, increasing credit amounts annually and raising age eligibility to include 17-year-olds.

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-$5.7B

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State revenue impact

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-4.0%

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Poverty rate change

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-10.8%

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Child poverty change

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+ + Virginia HB979: Income Tax Reform + + +

+ Increases standard deductions (single: $3k to $10k, joint: $6k to $20k) and adds new tax brackets (8% on income $600k-$1M, 10% on income over $1M). +

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+$3.1B

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State revenue impact

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-1.7%

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Poverty rate change

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-1.9%

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Child poverty change

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+ + Oklahoma HB2229: Double the State EITC + + +

+ Doubles the state EITC match rate from 5% to 10% of the federal credit. +

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-$26M

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State revenue impact

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-0.6%

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Poverty rate change

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-1.7%

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Child poverty change

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