Protecting Critical Services for Mothers and Babies Act

Bill: 116-s-2913
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-11-20
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child health

Employee benefits and pensions

Health facilities and institutions

Health personnel

Medical research

Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Tax-exempt organizations

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6720)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-20
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Protecting Critical Services for Mothers and Babies Act </b></p> <p>This bill expands the application of rules for cooperative and small employer charity pension plans to include certain nonprofit medical-research organizations that have the primary purpose of delivering services to mothers and children. (These rules exempt specified employers from certain minimum funding requirements for employee pension plans.) </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2913 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 20, 2019 Mr. Kaine (for himself, Mr. Perdue , Mr. Scott of South Carolina , and Mr. Warner ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To apply cooperative and small employer charity pension plan rules to certain charitable employers whose primary exempt purpose is providing services with respect to mothers and children.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Critical Services for Mothers and Babies Act . 2. Application of cooperative and small employer charity pension plan rules to certain charitable employers whose primary exempt purpose is providing services with respect to mothers and children (a) Employee retirement income and security act of 1974 (1) In general Section 210(f)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ( 29 U.S.C. 1060(f)(1) ) is amended— (A) by striking or at the end of subparagraph (B); (B) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting ; or ; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph: (D) that, as of January 1, 2000, was maintained by an employer— (i) described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, (ii) who has been in existence for at least 80 years, (iii) who conducts medical research directly or indirectly through grant making, and (iv) whose primary exempt purpose is to provide services with respect to mothers and children. . (b) Internal revenue code of 1986 (1) IRC in general Section 414(y)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (A) by striking or at the end of subparagraph (B); (B) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting ; or ; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph: (D) that, as of January 1, 2000, was maintained by an employer— (i) described in section 501(c)(3), (ii) who has been in existence for at least 80 years, (iii) who conducts medical research directly or indirectly through grant making, and (iv) whose primary exempt purpose is to provide services with respect to mothers and children. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect with respect to plan years beginning after December 31, 2018.