Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6382
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline employees
Airlines
Bankruptcy
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Department of the Treasury
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest rates
Law
Partnerships
Pension funds
Small business
Standards
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008 - Makes technical corrections to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to conform to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 regarding various specified items, including: (1) the target normal cost of benefits; (2) specified implementation and effective dates for certain requirements; (3) one-participant retirement plans; (4) special age-related rules in accrued benefit requirements for applicable defined benefit plans; (5) inapplicability in certain cases of the limitation on income deductions (for tax purposes) for employer contributions to one or more defined contribution plans; and (6) adjustments to averaging in the determination of the value of the assets of single-employer defined benefit pension plans for minimum funding purposes.
 
Makes technical corrections to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with respect to railroad retirement payments to persons not entitled to an annuity.
 
Makes technical corrections to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect to special age-related rules for determination of the market rate of return in the calculation of interest credits in governmental defined benefit plans.
 
Makes technical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code to modify: (1) the interest rate assumption required with respect to certain small employer plans; and (2) the penalties for failure to file partnership returns and S corporation returns.
 
Prescribes a special rule for exclusion from gross income of certain reimbursements from governmental plans for medical care.
 
Requires treatment as a qualified rollover contribution of any airline payment amount received by a qualified airline employee in an airline carrier bankruptcy which is transferred to a Roth IRA.

action_date: 2008-07-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008
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Title I: Technical Corrections Related to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - 
(Sec. 101) Makes technical corrections to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to conform to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 regarding various specified items, including: (1) the target normal cost of benefits; (2) specified implementation and effective dates for certain requirements; (3) one-participant retirement plans; (4) special age-related rules in accrued benefit requirements for applicable defined benefit plans; (5) inapplicability in certain cases of the limitation on income deductions (for tax purposes) for employer contributions to one or more defined contribution plans; and (6) adjustments to averaging in the determination of the value of the assets of single-employer defined benefit pension plans for minimum funding purposes.
 
(Sec. 110) Makes technical corrections to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with respect to railroad retirement payments to persons not entitled to an annuity.
 

Title II: Other Provisions - 
(Sec. 201) Requires that the value of assets for any ERISA plan under the averaging method be adjusted for expected earnings (in addition to contributions and distributions, as under current law).
 
(Sec. 202) Modifies the interest rate assumption required with respect to certain small employer plans.
 
(Sec. 203) Makes technical corrections to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect to special age-related rules for determination of the market rate of return in the calculation of interest credits in governmental defined benefit plans.
 
(Sec. 204) Prescribes a special rule for exclusion from gross income of certain reimbursements from governmental plans for health care expenses of a deceased plan participant's beneficiary.
 
(Sec. 205) Requires treatment as a qualified rollover contribution of any airline payment amount received by a qualified airline employee in an airline carrier bankruptcy which is transferred to a Roth IRA.
 
(Sec. 206) Increases by $4 the penalties for failure to file partnership returns and S corporation returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6243-6249)
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6243-6249)
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6382.
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6243-6252)
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Mr. Pomeroy moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House