I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5715 
To amend the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to extend special funding 
rules for certain plans maintained by commercial airlines, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 10, 2012 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, 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 
A BILL 
To amend the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to extend 
special funding rules for certain plans maintained by 
commercial airlines, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Airline Pension Fair-
ness Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. SPECIAL FUNDING RULES FOR CERTAIN PLANS 
MAINTAINED BY COMMERCIAL AIRLINES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(d)(1)(A) of the Pen-
sion Protection Act of 2006 (26 U.S.C. 430 note) is 
amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by strik-
ing ‘‘either a plan year beginning in 2006 or a plan 
year beginning in 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘a plan year 
beginning in 2006, a plan year beginning in 2007, 
a plan year beginning in 2012, or a plan year begin-
ning in 2013’’; 
(2) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘or’’; 
(3) in clause (ii), by striking the period; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) not later than December 31, 
2012, in the case of an election for a plan 
year beginning in 2012; or 
‘‘(iv) not later than December 31, 
2013, in the case of an election for a plan 
year beginning in 2013.’’. 
(b) RESTRICTION
ON APPLICABLE BENEFIT IN-
CREASES.—Section 402(b)(3)(A) of such Act (26 U.S.C. 
430 note) is amended by striking ‘‘if no applicable benefit’’ 
and all that follows to the end of the subparagraph and 
inserting the following: ‘‘if— 
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‘‘(i) in the case of a plan for which an 
election was made under subsection (a)(1) 
in which the first plan year to which such 
election applies is 2006 or 2007, no appli-
cable benefit increase takes effect at any 
time during the period beginning on July 
26, 2005, and ending on the day before the 
first day of the first applicable plan year; 
and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a plan for which 
an election was made under subsection 
(a)(1) in which the first plan year to which 
such election applies is 2012 or 2013, no 
applicable benefit increase takes effect at 
any time during the period beginning on 
November 29, 2011, and ending on the 
day before the first day of the first appli-
cable plan year.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 402(b)(4) 
of such Act (26 U.S.C. 430 note) is amended by inserting 
‘‘or November 29, 2011, as applicable,’’ after ‘‘July 26, 
2005,’’. 
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