Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6784 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6784 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for taxpayers who remove lead-based hazards. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 17, 2025 Mr. Cohen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for taxpayers who remove lead-based hazards. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; PURPOSE. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2025''. (b) Findings.--Congress finds that: (1) Lead is a metal that can produce a wide range of health effects in humans when ingested. Children are more vulnerable to lead poisoning than adults. (2) Lead poisoning is a serious, entirely preventable threat to a child's intelligence, behavior, and learning. In severe cases, lead poisoning can result in death. (3) According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, approximately 22,000,000 housing units nationwide have at least 1 lead paint hazard. (4) While appropriated Federal lead abatement programs, such as the Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes grant programs, have helped reduce childhood lead poisoning, funding constraints have limited their impact to only about 400,000 homes since 1993. (5) Childhood lead poisoning can be dramatically reduced by the abatement or complete removal of all lead-based hazards. Empirical studies also have shown substantial reductions in lead poisoning when the affected properties have undergone ``interim control measures'' that are less costly than abatement. (c) Pu