Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1776
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Annuities
Bankruptcy
Blue collar workers
Bonds
Business cycles
Churches
Civil service retirement
Clergy
Collective bargaining
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate divestiture
Corporation directors
Corporations
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Department of the Treasury
Disabled
Dividends
Divorce
Domestic relations
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee benefit plans
Employee health benefits
Employee ownership
Employee stock options
Excise tax
Executive compensation
Executives
Families
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Fire fighters
Flexible benefit plans
Golden parachutes
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Group insurance
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Interest
Interest rates
Investment advisers
Investments
Labor contracts
Law
Legal services
Legislation
Life expectancy
Local employees
Losses
Married people
Medical personnel
Medicare
Mortality
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Paramedical personnel
Partnerships
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Pension portability
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Police
Profit sharing
Religion
Retiree health benefits
Retirement age
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities regulation
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Social security taxes
State employees
State laws
Stocks
Support of dependents
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
User charges
Valuation
Vital statistics
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Economic Growth and Tax Reconciliation Act of 2001, the Social Security Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 to revise various pension and retirement provisions, including provisions affecting: (1) pension portability; (2) retirement plan participation and coverage; (3) IRAs; (4) defined benefit plans; (5) retirement plan contribution and distribution rules; (6) retirement plans of tax-exempt organizations and plans for government employees; (7) stock options; and (8) retiree health plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House