US HB2844 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 56-0)
Status: Introduced on June 19 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Keep Our Pension Promises Act This bill repeals the elimination of the pension anti-cutback provisions under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014. The anti-cutback provisions prohibit reductions in pension benefits to participants in multiemployer pension plans. The bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to allow a plan sponsor of an eligible multiemployer plan to petition the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for a partition of a financially-troubled pension plan. PBGC is required to establish a legacy fund to cover the administrative and benefit costs resulting from a partition.. The bill amends the federal bankruptcy code to assign first claim priority to pension obligations under ERISA. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a limit of $1 million on the exemption of the gain from the exchange of real property in a like kind exchange, (2) prohibit the use of like kind exchanges for collectibles, (3) establish estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets, and (4) limit estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.

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Title

Keep Our Pension Promises Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-11-16HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2015-07-09HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
2015-06-19HouseReferred to House Judiciary
2015-06-19HouseReferred to House Ways and Means
2015-06-19HouseReferred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-06-19HouseReferred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-06-19HouseSponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E936)
2015-06-19HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB1631 (Same As) 2015-06-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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