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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on April 6, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.
(Sec. 3) Prohibits the budgetary effects of this Act from being entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 622 as passed House amended on Apr 16, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Apr 16, 2015Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveApr 16, 2015
House Apr 16, 2015 · the primary vote
State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act
Passed
272 Yea 152 Nay 7 not voting
Party-line vote 35 of 424 voting members broke with their own party: 34 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 622 and vote against it. 35 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 622 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
9 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.