No Taxpayer Bailouts for Unsustainable State and Local Pensions Act

Bill: 114-hr-1476
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2015-03-19
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government lending and loan guarantees

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Taxpayer Bailouts for Unsustainable State and Local Pensions Act </b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from providing loans, grants, or other forms of financial assistance to state and local government pension plan funds.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1476 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 19, 2015 Mr. Babin (for himself and Mr. McClintock ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce , and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services , 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 prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from providing bailouts or other financial assistance to a pension plan of a State or political subdivision thereof, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Taxpayer Bailouts for Unsustainable State and Local Pensions Act . 2. Prohibition on bailouts for State and local pension funds The Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may not provide any loan, grant, or other form of financial assistance to a pension plan (as defined under section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ( 29 U.S.C. 1002 )) established or maintained by the government of any State or political subdivision thereof, or by any agency or instrumentality of such a State or political subdivision.