Reignite Hope Act of 2025

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Reignite Hope Act of 2025 This bill establishes a new nonrefundable personal tax credit (for three years) of $3,500 for critical employees. The bill also increases and makes other changes to the child tax credit. Under the bill, a critical employee is defined as an individual who works full-time for at least 75% of the tax year (as certified by such individual’s employer) as a healthcare professional, law enforcement officer, member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew, firefighter, eligible child care provider, family child care provider, or personal or homecare aid. Further, under the bill, such individual’s primary place of employment for the majority of hours worked during the tax year must be in a qualified opportunity zone. (A qualified opportunity zone is an economically distressed community where new investments may be eligible for certain tax preferences.) This bill increases the child tax credit from $2,000 per qualifying child to $3,500 per qualifying child (or $4,500 per qualifying child under six years old). The bill also increases the age limit of a qualifying child to 17 years old (from 16 years old), extends the threshold at which the child tax credit begins to …