I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 980 
To protect the health care and pension benefits of our nation’s miners. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2013 
Mr. RAHALL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural 
Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To protect the health care and pension benefits of our 
nation’s miners. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coal Accountability 
and Retired Employee Act of 2013’’ or the ‘‘CARE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND 
RECLAMATION ACT OF 1977. 
Section 402(i)(2) of the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(i)(2)) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Subject to’’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) EXCESS AMOUNTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to para-
graph (3), and after all transfers referred 
to in paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A) 
of this paragraph have been made, any 
amounts remaining after the application of 
paragraph (3)(A) (without regard to this 
subparagraph) shall be transferred to the 
trustees of the 1974 UMWA Pension Plan 
and used solely to pay pension benefits re-
quired under such plan. 
‘‘(ii) 1974 UMWA PENSION PLAN.—In 
this subparagraph, the term ‘1974 UMWA 
Pension Plan’ means a pension plan re-
ferred to in section 9701(a)(3) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 but without 
regard to whether participation in such 
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plan is limited to individuals who retired in 
1976 and thereafter.’’. 
SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY FOR 1992 UMWA BENEFIT PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 9712(b) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘or’’ at the end of subparagraph (A), by adding ‘‘or’’ 
at the end of subparagraph (B), and by inserting after 
subparagraph (B) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) but for this chapter, would be eligible 
to receive benefits from the 1974 UMWA Ben-
efit Plan (other than an individual described in 
the last sentence of section 402(h)(2)(C) of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977) following a proceeding under title 11, 
United States Code, or other insolvency pro-
ceeding relating to the applicable last signatory 
operator, but who does not receive such cov-
erage at levels at least equal to those described 
in section 402(h)(2)(C) of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 from 
such operator or any related person,’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Paragraph (2) of 
section 9712(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
amended— 
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