H.R. 8654 scored 72/100 on Quorum's complexity scale. The score measures how hard the text makes it to see what the bill does.
H.R. 8654 · complexity 72/100
The bill carries a complexity score of 72/100 and a high warning level. Transparency: 40%.
The bill contains 1 discrete rider. One example: Section 11(b) of the Internal Revenue Code amended to raise corporate tax rate from 21% to 22%, effective immediately. Unrelated to afterschool program reauthorization.
The bill's financial beneficiaries include: afterschool program operators and community organizations, and 2 more groups.
The corporate tax increase (21% →︎ 22%) is buried in subsection (c) under an education bill title, making it easy for voters and media to miss a major fiscal policy change. This is a classic rider pattern: consequential provision hidden in a sympathetic bill.
Who is behind it
Filed by Dan Goldman. Cosponsored by Adelita Grijalva, André Carson, Cleo Fields and Eleanor Norton.