Columbus, Ohio (Wcmh) – A legalist of Ohio has introduced a bill offering a state income tax credit to businesses that provide financial bonuses to employees who get married, prepare it as a part of a wider push to strengthen family structures.
House Bill 342, titled “Invest in Marriage Act”, if they apply “qualifying marriage bonus policy”, will provide employers a non -tax tax credit of up to $ 50,000 per year. Under the bill, the employer will be eligible for each employee for $ 1,000 credits, which receives the marriage bonus of at least that amount.
To qualify, employers must provide bonuses to any employee who presents a marriage license or marriage record. The law allows unused credits to extend to five years.
State rape. Josh Williams (R), the primary sponsor of the bill, said that the purpose of the law is to encourage marriages by entangling employers in family formation.
“We are watching studies, not only from orthodox groups [the Center for Christian Virtue] But BGSU also on the results of children who are raised in single parents’ homes, especially in single maternal homes, and its harmful effects that could have, “Williams explained NBC4.” Our society is getting away from encouraging marriage. ,
Williams said that this bill is also a response that what they said are disinfectants built in public aid programs, arguing that they discourage two-love-father homes.
“We have, you know, marriage penalty when it comes to other public support programs,” he said. “We thought only a way to be able to encourage marriage here in Ohio state, and we wanted to make sure that the employers were engaged in that encouragement.”
Williams stated that $ 1,000 minimum bonus was chosen to ensure that it would be meaningful for employees and possibly affect or affect employment decisions.
“We thought that $ 1,000 seems to be like a proper bonus amount, and something that would be contained to provide an employer,” he said. “Maybe the company offers this bonus, and the company does not B does not. And a qualified employee wants to decide where he wants to work.”
HB 342 is part of Williams’ Family First Agenda “, a suit of proposals focused on strengthening nuclear families in Ohio. Other bills include a remedy to designate Week between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as natural family monthA tax credit for in vitro fertilization, and others aim to support paternity and marriage.
“It is a group of bills that we deliberately designed to promote family units in the Ohio state,” Williams said. “We want Ohio to be a place where people want … meet your spouse, get married, plant your roots here in Ohio, and increase a family.”
Democratic MPs and Policy analysts have not yet publicly commented on HB 342. Critics of similar proposals in other states have expressed concern that tax-based marriage incentives can marginalize unmarried people and do not solve deep economic or social challenges in front of families.
The bill has been sent to Ohio House methods and means committee, but the hearing has not been held yet.
