# 114-hr-5383: Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2016

114-hr-5383, Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2016, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by STEVE ISRAEL (D-NY); status Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-5383
- Congress: 114
- Title: Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2016
- Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Introduced: 2016-06-03
- Sponsor: STEVE ISRAEL (D-NY)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Taxation
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Middle Class College Tuition Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2016 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that: allows an increased income tax credit for the qualified tuition and related expenses of a student who is carrying at least one half of a normal course load, increases the income threshold for reductions in the credit amount based upon modified adjusted gross income, allows a lifetime dollar limitation on such credit of $25,000 for all taxable years, prohibits taxpayers who have fraudulently or recklessly claimed the credit from receiving the credit during a specified disallowance period, and makes 50% of the credit refundable. The bill also allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant.

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- 114-hr-6332: National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of 2016
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- 114-hr-6208: Combating European Anti-Semitism Act of 2016

## Sources
- [114-hr-5383 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5383)

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- [114-hr-6398: To amend the Small Business Act to provide for the inclusion of unmarried women…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6398)
- [114-hr-6332: National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6332)
- [114-hr-6259: Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6259)
- [114-hr-6231: Making College More Affordable Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6231)
- [114-hr-6208: Combating European Anti-Semitism Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6208)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-5383 (as of 2025-11-18).