College Savings Recovery Act.

Bill: 117-s-4400
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2022-06-14
Policy area: Taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2022-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-06-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>College Savings Recovery Act</strong></p> <p>This bill sets forth a special tax rule allowing a rollover to a Roth Individual Retirement Account (Roth IRA) from a long-term qualified tuition program (i.e., a 529 qualified tuition program) without penalty.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4400 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 14, 2022 Mr. Burr (for himself and Mr. Casey ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for special rollovers to Roth IRAs from long-term qualified tuition programs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the College Savings Recovery Act. 2. Special rollover to Roth IRA from long-term qualified tuition program (a) In general Paragraph (3) of section 529(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (E) Special rollover to Roth IRA from long-term qualified tuition program For purposes of this section— (i) In general In the case of a distribution from a qualified tuition program which has been maintained by an account owner in one or more qualified tuition programs for the 10-year period ending on the date of such distribution— (I) subparagraph (A) shall not apply to any portion of such distribution which is paid in a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to a Roth IRA maintained for the benefit of such account owner or the designated beneficiary under such qualified tuition program, and (II) such portion shall be treated as a rollover contribution for purposes of section 408A(e). (ii) Limitation Clause (i) shall only apply to so much of any distribution as does not exceed the lesser of— (I) the amount applicable to the account owner or the designated beneficiary, as the case may be, under section 408A(c)(2) for the taxable year (reduced by the amount of aggregate contributions made during the taxable year before the date of such distribution to all individual retirement plans maintained for the benefit of the account owner or designated beneficiary, as the case may be), or (II) the aggregate amount contributed to the program (and earnings attributable thereto) before the 5-year period ending on the date of the distribution. (iii) Account owner For purposes of this subparagraph, the term account owner means the individual who established the qualified tuition program account under applicable State law. . (b) Qualified rollover contribution Paragraph (1) of section 408A(e) of such Code is amended— (1) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting , and , (2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new subparagraph: (C) from a qualified tuition program to the extent provided in section 529(c)(3)(E). , and (3) by adding at the end the following new sentence: Under regulations established by the Secretary, the earnings and contributions of any qualified tuition program from which a qualified rollover contribution is made under subparagraph (C) shall be treated in the same manner as the earnings and contributions of a Roth IRA from which a qualified rollover contribution is made under subparagraph (A). . (c) Reporting Section 529(d) of such Code is amended— (1) by striking Each officer and inserting the following: (1) In general Each officer , (2) by striking by this subsection and inserting by this paragraph , and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (2) Rollover distributions In the case of any distribution described in subsection (c)(3)(A), the officer or employee having control of the qualified tuition program (or their designee) shall provide a report to the trustee of the Roth IRA to which the distribution is made. Such report shall be filed at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require and shall include information with respect to the contributions, distributions, and earnings of the qualified tuition program as of the date of the distribution described in subsection (c)(3)(A), together with such other matters as the Secretary may require. . (d) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to distributions after December 31, 2022.