Tax credit for lead removal aims to protect kids from poisoning
H.R. 6784 — Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2025 · Filed by Steve Cohen (D-TN) · Introduced Dec 17, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a federal tax credit allowing homeowners to deduct 50% of the cost of removing lead hazards from homes built before 1978, up to $3,000 per year for full abatement or $1,000 for interim control measures, with a lifetime cap of $4,000 per home. The credit is designed to incentivize lead remediation in the roughly 22 million U.S. homes with lead paint hazards, particularly to protect children from lead poisoning.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is a straightforward tax credit designed to reduce a documented public health threat (childhood lead poisoning). It is not a subsidy to a specific industry, a regulatory carve-out, or a hidden rider—it is a transparent fiscal incentive aligned with stated public health purpose.
What the text implies
- The $4,000 lifetime cap per home may be insufficient for full lead abatement in severely contaminated properties, potentially leaving some homes partially remediated.
- The credit sunsets December 31, 2028, creating uncertainty about long-term incentive availability and potentially front-loading remediation activity before expiration.
- Homeowners must hire certified contractors and inspectors, which may increase costs in rural or underserved areas with limited certified professional availability.
- The credit requires documentation from certified inspectors/risk assessors, creating a compliance burden that may deter lower-income homeowners unfamiliar with federal tax documentation requirements.
Who it affects
Ordinary homeowners, especially those in older housing stock, gain a direct financial incentive to remove a documented public health hazard (lead poisoning in children). The credit reduces out-of-pocket costs for a preventive health measure with no offsetting public cost beyond foregone tax revenue.
Who stands to gain
- lead abatement contractors
- certified lead inspectors and risk assessors
- certified lead abatement supervisors
- homeowners in pre-1978 housing stock
Named in the bill
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), certified lead abatement supervisors, certified risk assessors, certified inspectors, qualified contractors
Where it stands
- Dec 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $700,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 56 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Steve Cohen, the sponsor, reported $315,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Associated Builders and Contractors Inc — $700,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jun 8, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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