United States · Bill · S
S. 3827 (109th)
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006
Introduced
3 August 2006
Last action
3 August 2006 · Introduced
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sponsors
Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR], Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME], Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY], Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV], Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA], Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY], Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA], Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR], Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI], Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ], Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL], Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Subjects
Taxation
Source updated
5 December 2025
Summary
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for empowerment zones and renewal communities through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities (requires expansion of such communities located in rural areas upon the request of a local government if specified conditions exist); (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; and (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zone facility bonds.
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Timeline
3 August 2006
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Source: IntroReferral
3 August 2006
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
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Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 3 August 2006 · Download file
Documents
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Sponsors
- Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] · R · Sponsor
- Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] · R · Sponsor
- Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY] · R · Cosponsor
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Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/3827
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/3827
- us · 109-s-3827 · source updated 5 December 2025