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Rep. Vandergriff, Tommy J. [D-TX-26]

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Bill· HRH.R. 6404 (98th)referred

Plan Termination and Reversion Control Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1984

Plan Termination and Reversion Control Act of 1984 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to delineate the eligibility and sufficiency criteria which single-employer pension plans must meet in order to terminate under the protection of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the Corporation). Includes among the termination eligibility requirements for such single-employer pension plan: (1) business necessity; (2) pay-status participants not in excess of 80 percent (pay-status participants are those whose retirement benefits have become payable); (3) absence for a specified period of a different employer-maintained plan; and (4) the plan to be terminated did not participate in an asset or liabilities transfer between plans during such period. Delineates the criteria under which plan termination is considered a business necessity for purposes of this Act. States that plan termination will not be considered a business necessity if the termination's primary purpose is to make funds available to contributing sponsors or to a sponsor's controlled group in order to prevent or promote entry of other persons into the controlled group. Treats fiduciaries who have permitted single-employer plan terminations to take place without meeting the eligibility criteria as having breached a fiduciary duty. Sets guidelines under which residual assets of terminated plans shall be distributed among: (1) employee contributors; (2) participants and beneficiaries; and (3) employers. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax upon the distribution of residual assets to an employer if a single-employer benefit plan is terminated, except under the business necessity criteria of this Act. Makes the employer liable to pay such tax. Requires a plan administrator to file a plan termination notice with the Corporation after giving plan participants and beneficiaries advanced written notice of such proposed termination. Requires the Corporation to hold a hearing on the record regarding: (1) plan termination; and (2) distribution of residual assets. Amends the limitations set upon plan acquisition of qualifying employer securities and real property. Directs the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries (the Board) to report to specified congressional committees regarding the results of a study concerning reasonable actuarial assumptions and methods for determining the actuarial status and funding requirements of various pension plans. Requires the Board to publish in the Federal Register the actuarial assumptions and methods it prescribes for various types of pension plans. Authorizes the Board to terminate enrolled actuaries upon finding that they have not used the methods and assumptions prescribed. Makes conforming amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Sets guidelines for qualified trust treatment where assets of a terminated plan are transferred to an employee stock ownership plan. Amends ERISA to prohibit fiduciaries from permitting the transfer of terminated plan assets to an employee-stock-ownership plan unless specified conditions are met. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disqualify from trust status any comparable pension plan formed by an employer within five years of such employer's receipt of the residual assets of a pension plan terminated without business necessity. Provides that where employers have accepted payments of the residual assets of certain terminated pension plans, certain comparable pension plans formed by such employers will be denied: (1) minimum funding standard waivers; (2) extension of amortization periods; and (3) alternative minimum funding standards. Directs the President to establish the Plan Termination and Reversion Control Commission as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government. Establishes the position of special liaison officer to the Commission within the office of: (1) the Secretary of Labor; (2) Secretary of the Treasury; and (3) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Provides for an Executive Director as the principal administrative officer under the Commission. Provides that if the Corporation finds that residual assets exceed a specified amount upon the termination of certain single-employer plans, then the Commission shall assume all functions of the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury and of the Corporation, insofar as such functions concern residual assets requirements in their respective areas. Authorizes the Commission to prescribe rules and regulations, policies and procedures. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 6326 (98th)referred

A bill to provide a deduction from gross income for individual taxpayers who maintain a household which includes a dependent of the taxpayer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for the home health care and adult day care expenses of a taxpayer who maintains a household which includes a dependent of the taxpayer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Permits this deduction whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions.

Bill· HRH.R. 6327 (98th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow the dependent care credit for expenses with respect to dependents incapable of self-care without regard to whether such expenses are incurred to enable the taxpayer to be gainfully employed.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the dependent care income tax credit for expenses incurred for the care of dependents incapable of self-care without regard to whether such expenses were incurred to enable the taxpayer to be gainfully employed.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 363 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board should delay until June 30, 1985, the effective date of its proposed regulations regarding limitations on direct investment in real estate, service corporations, and equity securities by federally insured savings and loan associations.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1984

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board should delay until June 30, 1985, the effective date of its proposed regulations regarding limitations on direct investment in real estate, service corporations, and equity securities by federally insured savings and loan associations. Directs the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives to examine alternatives to the proposed regulations which will ensure safety and sound investment activities.

Law· HRH.R. 6299 (98th)enacted

A bill to ensure the payment in 1985 of cost of living increases under the OASDI program in title II of the Social Security Act, and to provide for a study of certain changes which might be made in the provisions authorizing cost of living adjustments under that program.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1984

Provides that there will be a cost-of-living increase in benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act for 1985 without regard to whether the three percent threshold is met. Directs the Office of the Actuary of the Social Security Administration to conduct a study on possible improvements in the application and operation of cost-of-living adjustment provisions under title II. Requires the Office to report on such study to appropriate congressional committees by September 1, 1985.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 355 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution establishing a commission to study wage discrimination and other discriminatory personnel policies and practices in the legislative branch.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1984

Establishes a Commission on Employment Discrimination in the Legislative Branch. Directs the Commission to: (1) employ a nongovernmental consultant to study the compensation paid to Library of Congress personnel and analyze personnel policies of the Library; (2) evaluate the compensation system of the Library for compliance with title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and make any recommendations needed to achieve compliance; (3) develop a plan for the application of title VII through the legislative branch; and (4) make recommendations to Congress for improvement of personnel policies and practices in the legislative branch. Directs the Commission to submit a final report to Congress 18 months after enactment of this Act. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of the final report.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 641 (98th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution with respect to the right to life, except in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment.

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1984

Constitutional Amendment - States that for purposes of the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, the word "person" applies to all human beings without regard to age, health, function or condition of dependency. Makes such amendment inapplicable to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother or when the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest.

Bill· HRH.R. 6132 (98th)referred

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to modify the terminology relating to handicapped children.

United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984

Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance), IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families With Children and for Child-Welfare Services), V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant), and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to strike out the words "crippled" and "crippling" wherever they appear and insert instead the words "handicapped" and "disability," respectively.

Bill· HRH.R. 6021 (98th)referred

A bill to repeal the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1984 with respect to the tax treatment of debt instruments issued for property.

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal rules relating to the determination of the issue price of certain debt instruments issued for property. Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1984 to repeal the revisions made to rules for the imputation of interest on certain deferred payments. Provides that the Internal Revenue Code shall be applied and administered as if such revisions had not been enacted.

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