Contact Congress about H.R. 2599: POWER Act of 2025

Some homeowners hit by repeated disasters could get up to $500 back on their federal taxes for buying an emergency generator. The home must be their main home, and the buyer must meet disaster-aid and income rules. The offer ends two years after the bill becomes law.

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POWER Act of 2025 is a House bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Latest action on H.R. 2599: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects homeowners who have already been through major disasters and received federal individual disaster aid. It could lower the cost of buying a generator for their main home. Higher-income households may get less help or none at all. People in disaster-prone areas who never received that specific federal aid would not qualify.

Why this matters: Power outages after disasters can put food, medicine, heat, cooling, and medical devices at risk. This bill would help some households pay for backup power before the next outage. The help is limited because the credit is capped at $500 and lasts only two years. Its real effect would depend on how many eligible people buy generators during that short window.

Key provisions in H.R. 2599

• The bill adds a new Emergency Generator Credit to Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code, which is the federal tax law.
• Eligible taxpayers could get a tax credit for what they spend on an emergency generator. The most they could get is $500.
• The generator must be for the taxpayer's main home. The bill uses the existing tax-law meaning of main home in Section 121.
• The taxpayer's main home must be in an area with at least two major disaster declarations in the last five years. Disasters declared for public health reasons do not count.
• The taxpayer also must have received individual disaster aid under Section 408 of the Stafford Act for at least one of those disasters in that five-year period.

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Questions people ask about H.R. 2599

What is H.R. 2599?

Some homeowners hit by repeated disasters could get up to $500 back on their federal taxes for buying an emergency generator. The home must be their main home, and the buyer must meet disaster-aid and income rules. The offer ends two years after the bill becomes law.

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