Employee Pension Portability and Accountability Act of 1999

Summary

Employee Pension Portability and Accountability Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, with respect to retirement savings, to: (1) provide for an exclusion from an employee's gross income of payroll deduction contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs); (2) require an employer, upon request from an employee, to withhold retirement savings from wages; (3) provide a credit to eligible small employers for pension plan start-up costs; (4) permit an employer to establish a Secure Money Annuity or Retirement (SMART) Trust (as defined); (5) provide for faster vesting of employer matching contributions under a plan including an accrued benefit derived from such contributions; (6) require spousal pension right-to- know provisions; (7) set forth various nondiscrimination rules for qualified cash or deferred arrangements and matching contributions. (8) require one-percent employer contributions under the alternative method of meeting nondiscrimination requirements for IRC 401(k) plans; (9) redefine the term highly compensated employee; (10) revise multiemployer plan provisions with respect to the special limitation rule, the exemption for survivor and disability benefits, the full funding limitation, valuation, and partial termination rules; (11) allow rollovers from and to IRC section 403(b) plans; (12) set forth requirements relating to rollover contributions from deferred compensation plans of State and local governments; (13) permit specified rollovers and make other revisions concerning portability; (14) exclude from gross income, for certain IRC purposes, amounts involved in a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to a defined benefit governmental plan, if such transfer is for purchase of service credit under such plan a specified type of repayment; (15) modify requirements for joint and survivor annuities to provide for an alternative joint and 75 percent survivor annuity payable while both the participant and the spouse are alive; (16) treat periods of family and medical leave, under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, as hours of service for purposes of pension participation and vesting.

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Timeline

1. 22 March 1999

   Introduced

   Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E505-507)

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 22 March 1999

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 22 March 1999

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 22 March 1999

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 22 March 1999

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

6. 24 March 1999

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight.

   Source: Committee

7. 16 April 1999

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 22 March 1999 · Download file

Documents

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Sponsors

• Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Coyne, William J. [D-PA-14] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-5] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Sandlin, Max [D-TX-1] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13] · D · Cosponsor
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