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HR1397 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. HR 643 Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act. To eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S1164 Expand Dental Coverage on Federal Exchanges. A bill to allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. H.R.3089 - More Paid Leave for More Americans Act - to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program to award grants to States to carry out a paid family leave program, to establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network, and for other purposes. H.R.3090- I-PLAN Act of 2025 - To establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network to provide support and incentives for the development and adoption of an interstate agreement that facilitates streamlined benefit delivery, reduced administrative burden, and coordination and harmonization of State paid family and medical leave programs to benefit employees, States, and employers. H.R.3437 / S.1544- Insurance Data protection Act- A bill to prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data directly from an insurance company. H.R.7130 - McCarran-Ferguson Restoration Act. To eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and to establish a United States Insurance Representative within the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. H.R.7128 - TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026. To extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program. S 4395, Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization act of 2026

S.1831 - Auto Reenroll Act - This bill allows plan sponsors to automatically reenroll non-participating employees into their employer-sponsored retirement plans at least once every three years. S.1707 - Helping Young Americans Save Act - This bill lowers the age required for retirement plan eligibility to 18 (from 21). S.1728 - Employee Ownership Representation Act - This bill adds two representatives of ESOP organizations to the ERISA Advisory Council. S.1645 - American Ownership and Resilience Act - This bill proposes a new zero-subsidy investment facility within Commerce to provide loan guarantees for private investment funds focused on supporting employee ownership transitions at small and mid-size businesses. S.1840 - Retirement Investment in Small Employers Act - This bill would raise the minimum tax credit that small businesses with fewer than 10 employees can receive when establishing a retirement plan from a minimum threshold of $500 to $2,500. S.2210- Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers Act - This bill would create a safe harbor under federal law for companies that would like to voluntarily provide access to benefits to contractors. S.2217 - Independent Retirement Fairness Act - This bill would permit contractors to participate in retirement benefit plans like a single pension IRA and pooled employer plans, while insulating companies from being treated as an employer. H.R.2696 / S.1526 - Retirement Savings for Americans Act - This bill would create a federally-run defined contribution plan for private sector workers who lack access to or are ineligible for a workplace retirement plan from their employers. H.R.2988 - Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act - This bill requires retirement plan fiduciaries to prioritize maximizing returns rather than political or social impact via environmental, social, and governance factors. S. TBD- Leveraging Investment and Broadened Employee Retirement Today Act (LIBERTY Act): This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the fiduciary duties regarding asset classes. HR 5325 Unclaimed Retirement Rescue Plan. To direct the Secretary of Labor to promulgate a regulation allowing administrators of certain pension plans to voluntarily transfer unclaimed retirement distributions to State unclaimed property programs. Summary is in progress. S2359 SAFE HIRE Act. To require certification of employment eligibility compliance in annual reporting of certain securities issuers, and for other purposes. Summary is in progress. S1727 Employee Ownership Fairness Plan. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to permit employee stock ownership plan participants to benefit from the full amount of beneficial ownership that can be accrued in the plan while also fully realizing the benefits of saving for retirement in a defined contribution plan. Summary in progress. S2458 Employee Ownership Financing Act. To require the Secretary of Labor to establish the Office of Employee Ownership to carry out the Employee Ownership Initiative and establish and carry out the Employee Ownership Loan Program, and for other purposes. Summary in progress. S2403 Retire Through Ownership Act. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide a clear definition of adequate consideration for certain closely held stock, and for other purposes. Summary in progress. S2335 Pensions for All Act. This bill requires every employer to provide to their employees a retirement program with benefits equivalent to the Federal Employees Retirement System or to elect for their employees to participate in the Federal Employees Retirement System, and for other purposes, require employers of all sizes and self-employed individuals to sponsor a DB plan. HR6324 Retirement Simplification and Clarity Act. This bill permits in-service plan distribution at age 50 or older for purpose of purchasing an individual retirement annuity. HR6757 Rollover Contributions from Roth IRAs to Designated Roth Accounts Act. This bill allows transfers from Roth IRAs to designated employer-sponsored Roth DC plan accounts.

HR2441 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2025. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. HR1013, S424 Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Federal securities laws to enhance403(b) plans, and for other purposes. HR2441 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act 2025. To provide for the electronic delivery of certain regulatory document required under the securities laws. H.R. TBD Updating Americas Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century. a bill to make improvements to title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes. H.R. 4801, the Unleashing AI Innovation in Financial Services. To establish AI Innovation Labs that permit certain persons to experiment with artificial intelligence without expectation of enforcement actions. HR 10234, The CLEAR Forms Act: The bipartisan Consumer-Led Enhancement of Annuity and Insurance Registration Forms Act mandates tailored SEC registration forms for insurance products instead of generic corporate stock/bond forms.

S. 2495 - The Keep Call Centers in America Act: This bill aims to keep call center jobs in the U.S. by requiring the Secretary of Labor to list employers who relocate call centers overseas, making them ineligible for federal grants and loans. S. TBD - The Halting International Relocation of Employment Act (Hire Act): This bill discourages US companies from outsourcing jobs by imposing a 25% tax on "outsourcing payments"-payments for foreign labor or services that benefit US consumers. H.R. 9442/S 4214 Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act: Places a moratorium on new data-center construction until Congress establishes safeguards addressing AI safety, jobs, utility costs, communities and environmental effects.

HR1397 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. HR 643 Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act. To eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S1164 Expand Dental Coverage on Federal Exchanges. A bill to allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. H.R.3089 - More Paid Leave for More Americans Act - to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program to award grants to States to carry out a paid family leave program, to establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network, and for other purposes. H.R.3090- I-PLAN Act of 2025 - To establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network to provide support and incentives for the development and adoption of an interstate agreement that facilitates streamlined benefit delivery, reduced administrative burden, and coordination and harmonization of State paid family and medical leave programs to benefit employees, States, and employers. H.R.3437 / S.1544- Insurance Data protection Act- A bill to prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data directly from an insurance company.

S.1831 - Auto Reenroll Act - This bill allows plan sponsors to automatically reenroll non-participating employees into their employer-sponsored retirement plans at least once every three years. S.1707 - Helping Young Americans Save Act - This bill lowers the age required for retirement plan eligibility to 18 (from 21). S.1728 - Employee Ownership Representation Act - This bill adds two representatives of ESOP organizations to the ERISA Advisory Council. S.1645 - American Ownership and Resilience Act - This bill proposes a new zero-subsidy investment facility within Commerce to provide loan guarantees for private investment funds focused on supporting employee ownership transitions at small and mid-size businesses. S.1840 - Retirement Investment in Small Employers Act - This bill would raise the minimum tax credit that small businesses with fewer than 10 employees can receive when establishing a retirement plan from a minimum threshold of $500 to $2,500. S. No Bill Number Assigned- Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers Act - This bill would create a safe harbor under federal law for companies that would like to voluntarily provide access to benefits to contractors. S. No Bill Number Assigned - Independent Retirement Fairness Act - This bill would permit contractors to participate in retirement benefit plans like a single pension IRA and pooled employer plans, while insulating companies from being treated as an employer. H.R.2696 / S.1526 - Retirement Savings for Americans Act - This bill would create a federally-run defined contribution plan for private sector workers who lack access to or are ineligible for a workplace retirement plan from their employers. H.R.2988 - Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act - This bill requires retirement plan fiduciaries to prioritize maximizing returns rather than political or social impact via environmental, social, and governance factors.

HR1397 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. HR 643 Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act. To eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S1164 Expand Dental Coverage on Federal Exchanges. A bill to allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges.

Treaty Document 112-8: bilateral tax treaty with Chile HR 5707 Secure Family Futures Act Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets. HR 7024 Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. To make improvements to the child tax credit, to provide tax incentives to promote economic growth, to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States, to provide tax relief with respect to certain Federal disasters, to make improvements to the low-income housing tax credit, and for other purposes. HR 8435 Summary in process. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain price protection payments as eligible rollover distributions, and for other purposes. HR 8860 A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the paid family and medical leave credit, and for other purposes. Issues Related to Paid Family and Medical Leave S3680 Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act: This bill modifies the employer tax credit for paid family and medical leave. Specifically, the bill (1) makes such credit permanent, (2) allows the credit in states or localities that either mandate or do not mandate paid family and medical leave, (3) allows employers to claim the credit for a portion of their paid family leave insurance premiums, (4) reduces the minimum employment period eligibility requirement, and (5) requires the Small Business Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to conduct targeted outreach to employers and other relevant parties regarding the availability and requirements of the credit. S4740 Secure Family Futures Act of 2024 - Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets.

HR 5339 RETIRE Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements concerning the consideration of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors, and for other purposes. HR 5337 Retirement Proxy Protection Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the application of prudence and exclusive purpose duties to the exercise of shareholder rights. HR 5338 No Discrimination In My Benefits Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish that fiduciaries must act with prudence and loyalty when selecting service providers for pension plans. HR 5340 Providing Complete Information to Retirement Investors Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that pension plans provide notice to participants and beneficiaries on risks associated with certain investments, and for other purposes. S5271 Retirement Savings for Americans Act: This bill provides retirement savings accounts to eligible workers without employer-sponsored retirement plans. Participants' contributions are matched (up to certain thresholds) by the government through a federal income tax credit. No Bill Number. Automatic IRA Act of 20204. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide rules for automatic contribution retirement plans and arrangements. HR 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024. To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules with respect to the electronic delivery of certain required disclosures, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. S.4398 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a microemployer pension plan startup credit. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available. HR 6007 Retirement Investment in Small Employers Act. This bill allows an increased start-up tax credit (from $500 to $2,500) for micro-businesses (not more than 10 employees) for the costs of setting up a defined contribution pension plan.

HR 6336 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024: Summary is in progress HR 10545 The American Relief Act of 2025: Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.

S 1212 Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act: Summary in progress. To authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officers State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

S 2771 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges. S2860/HR2891 SAFER Banking Act: To create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses, and for other purposes. This bill provides protections for federally regulated financial institutions that serve state-sanctioned marijuana businesses. Currently, many financial institutions do not provide services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses due to the federal classification of marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance. Under the bill, a federal banking regulator may not penalize a depository institution for providing banking services to a state-sanctioned marijuana business. For example, regulators may not terminate or limit the deposit or share insurance of a depository institution solely because the institution provides financial services to a state-sanctioned marijuana business. The bill also prohibits a federal banking regulator from requesting or requiring a depository institution to terminate a deposit account unless (1) there is a valid reason, such as the regulator has cause to believe that the depository institution is engaging in an unsafe or unsound practice; and (2) reputational risk is not the dispositive factor. Additionally, proceeds from a transaction conducted by a state-sanctioned marijuana business are no longer considered proceeds from unlawful activity. (Financial institutions that handle proceeds from unlawful activity are subject to anti-money laundering laws. Violators of these laws are subject to fines and imprisonment.) Furthermore, a financial institution, insurer, or federal agency may not be held liable or subject to asset forfeiture under federal law for providing a loan, mortgage, or other financial service to a state-sanctioned marijuana business.

S5139 Empowering Main Street in America Act of 2024 - Summary in progress. To amend the Securities Act of 1933 to address emerging growth companies, and for other purposes.

S 2771 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges.

S 1212 Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act: Summary in progress. To authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officers State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

HR 6336 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024: Summary is in progress

Treaty Document 112-8: bilateral tax treaty with Chile HR 5707 Secure Family Futures Act Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets. HR 7024 Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. To make improvements to the child tax credit, to provide tax incentives to promote economic growth, to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States, to provide tax relief with respect to certain Federal disasters, to make improvements to the low-income housing tax credit, and for other purposes. HR 8435 Summary in process. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain price protection payments as eligible rollover distributions, and for other purposes. HR 8860 A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the paid family and medical leave credit, and for other purposes. Issues Related to Paid Family and Medical Leave S3680 Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act: This bill modifies the employer tax credit for paid family and medical leave. Specifically, the bill (1) makes such credit permanent, (2) allows the credit in states or localities that either mandate or do not mandate paid family and medical leave, (3) allows employers to claim the credit for a portion of their paid family leave insurance premiums, (4) reduces the minimum employment period eligibility requirement, and (5) requires the Small Business Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to conduct targeted outreach to employers and other relevant parties regarding the availability and requirements of the credit. S4740 Secure Family Futures Act of 2024 - Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets.

HR 5339 RETIRE Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements concerning the consideration of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors, and for other purposes. HR 5337 Retirement Proxy Protection Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the application of prudence and exclusive purpose duties to the exercise of shareholder rights. HR 5338 No Discrimination In My Benefits Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish that fiduciaries must act with prudence and loyalty when selecting service providers for pension plans. HR 5340 Providing Complete Information to Retirement Investors Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that pension plans provide notice to participants and beneficiaries on risks associated with certain investments, and for other purposes. S5271 Retirement Savings for Americans Act: This bill provides retirement savings accounts to eligible workers without employer-sponsored retirement plans. Participants' contributions are matched (up to certain thresholds) by the government through a federal income tax credit. No Bill Number. Automatic IRA Act of 20204. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide rules for automatic contribution retirement plans and arrangements. HR 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024. To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules with respect to the electronic delivery of certain required disclosures, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. S.4398 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a microemployer pension plan startup credit. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available. HR 6007 Retirement Investment in Small Employers Act. This bill allows an increased start-up tax credit (from $500 to $2,500) for micro-businesses (not more than 10 employees) for the costs of setting up a defined contribution pension plan.

S5139 Empowering Main Street in America Act of 2024 - Summary in progress. To amend the Securities Act of 1933 to address emerging growth companies, and for other purposes.

HR 6336 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024: Summary is in progress

H.R. 1165 Data Privacy Act of 2023: Summary in progress H.R. 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2023. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. HR 2799 The Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023. This bill reduces various securities regulations applicable to certain companies, brokers, and advisors. The bill also allows more investors to invest in specified types of ventures. The bill reduces regulations, for example, by establishing an exemption to certain securities regulations for small offerings of securities. Specifically, under the bill, securities registration is not required for a sale of securities if the total amount of securities sold by the issuer during the preceding 12-month period does not exceed $250,000. The bill also allows certain issuers of securities regulated as emerging growth companies to continue operating under these regulations, including those related to reduced disclosures, for an additional period of time. It also raises the limit of total annual gross revenues under which issuers qualify as emerging growth companies to $1.5 billion. The bill allows more investment, for example, by raising the caps on the allowed capital and number of investors under which a fund may qualify as a venture capital fund. Venture capital funds are exempt from certain regulations applicable to other investment firms, including those related to filings, audits, and restricted communications with investors. The bill increases the caps from (1) $10 million to $150 million in capital contributions and commitments, and (2) 250 to 600 allowed investors. In addition, the bill expands who may be considered an accredited investor for purposes of participating in private offerings of securities. Certain unregistered securities may only be offered to accredited investors. S 3735 Protecting Innovation in Investment Act. Summary in progress. To prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to conflicts of interest associated with the use of predictive data analytics by broker-dealers and investment advisers, and for other purposes. HR 3063 Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Federal securities laws to enhance 403(b) plans, and for other purposes. HR 2799 Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023 This bill reduces various securities regulations applicable to certain companies, brokers, and advisors. The bill also allows more investors to invest in specified types of ventures. The bill reduces regulations, for example, by establishing an exemption to certain securities regulations for small offerings of securities. Specifically, under the bill, securities registration is not required for a sale of securities if the total amount of securities sold by the issuer during the preceding 12-month period does not exceed $250,000. The bill also allows certain issuers of securities regulated as emerging growth companies to continue operating under these regulations, including those related to reduced disclosures, for an additional period of time. It also raises the limit of total annual gross revenues under which issuers qualify as emerging growth companies to $1.5 billion. The bill allows more investment, for example, by raising the caps on the allowed capital and number of investors under which a fund may qualify as a venture capital fund. Venture capital funds are exempt from certain regulations applicable to other investment firms, including those related to filings, audits, and restricted communications with investors. The bill increases the caps from (1) $10 million to $150 million in capital contributions and commitments, and (2) 250 to 600 allowed investors. In addition, the bill expands who may be considered an accredited investor for purposes of participating in private offerings of securities. Certain unregistered securities may only be offered to accredited investors. H.Amdt.857 An amendment numbered 7 printed in Part B of House Report 118-407 to ensure that exemptions or benefits provided by the bill may only apply to companies that do not impose "junk fees" on customers. HR 8818 American Privacy Rights Act of 2024. To provide Americans with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement, and for other purposes.

HR 5339 RETIRE Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements concerning the consideration of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors, and for other purposes. HR 5337 Retirement Proxy Protection Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the application of prudence and exclusive purpose duties to the exercise of shareholder rights. HR 5338 No Discrimination In My Benefits Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish that fiduciaries must act with prudence and loyalty when selecting service providers for pension plans. HR 5340 Providing Complete Information to Retirement Investors Act: Summary is in progress. To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that pension plans provide notice to participants and beneficiaries on risks associated with certain investments, and for other purposes. S5271 Retirement Savings for Americans Act: This bill provides retirement savings accounts to eligible workers without employer-sponsored retirement plans. Participants' contributions are matched (up to certain thresholds) by the government through a federal income tax credit. No Bill Number. Automatic IRA Act of 20204. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide rules for automatic contribution retirement plans and arrangements. HR 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024. To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules with respect to the electronic delivery of certain required disclosures, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. S.4398 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a microemployer pension plan startup credit. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available. HR 6007 Retirement Investment in Small Employers Act. This bill allows an increased start-up tax credit (from $500 to $2,500) for micro-businesses (not more than 10 employees) for the costs of setting up a defined contribution pension plan.

S 2771 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges.

S 2771 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges.

H.R. 1165 Data Privacy Act of 2023: Summary in progress H.R. 3603: account parity relating to the ability for 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts H.R. 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2023. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. HR 2799 The Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023. This bill reduces various securities regulations applicable to certain companies, brokers, and advisors. The bill also allows more investors to invest in specified types of ventures. The bill reduces regulations, for example, by establishing an exemption to certain securities regulations for small offerings of securities. Specifically, under the bill, securities registration is not required for a sale of securities if the total amount of securities sold by the issuer during the preceding 12-month period does not exceed $250,000. The bill also allows certain issuers of securities regulated as emerging growth companies to continue operating under these regulations, including those related to reduced disclosures, for an additional period of time. It also raises the limit of total annual gross revenues under which issuers qualify as emerging growth companies to $1.5 billion. The bill allows more investment, for example, by raising the caps on the allowed capital and number of investors under which a fund may qualify as a venture capital fund. Venture capital funds are exempt from certain regulations applicable to other investment firms, including those related to filings, audits, and restricted communications with investors. The bill increases the caps from (1) $10 million to $150 million in capital contributions and commitments, and (2) 250 to 600 allowed investors. In addition, the bill expands who may be considered an accredited investor for purposes of participating in private offerings of securities. Certain unregistered securities may only be offered to accredited investors. S 3735 Protecting Innovation in Investment Act. Summary in progress. To prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to conflicts of interest associated with the use of predictive data analytics by broker-dealers and investment advisers, and for other purposes.

S 1212 Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act: Summary in progress. To authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officers State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

No Bill Number: Issues pertaining to Paid Family and Medical Leave Treaty Document 112-8: bilateral tax treaty with Chile HR 5707 Secure Family Futures Act Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets. HR 7024 Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. To make improvements to the child tax credit, to provide tax incentives to promote economic growth, to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States, to provide tax relief with respect to certain Federal disasters, to make improvements to the low-income housing tax credit, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1165 Data Privacy Act of 2023: Summary in progress H.R. 3603: account parity relating to the ability for 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts H.R. 2799 Expanding Access to Capital Act: Summary in progress H.R. 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2023. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents.

HR 6336 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024: Summary is in progress

S 2771 Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act: Summary is in progress. To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans offered through Federal Exchanges.

No Bill Number: Issues pertaining to Paid Family and Medical Leave Treaty Document 112-8: bilateral tax treaty with Chile HR 5707 Secure Family Futures Act Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets.

H.R. 1165 Data Privacy Act of 2023: Summary in progress H.R. 3603: account parity relating to the ability for 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts H.R. 2799 Expanding Access to Capital Act: Summary in progress H.R. 1807 Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2023. This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents.

No Bill Number: Issues pertaining to Paid Family and Medical Leave Treaty Document 112-8: bilateral tax treaty with Chile HR 5707 Secure Family Futures Act Summary is in progress. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude debt held by certain insurance companies from capital assets.

S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress H.R. 5161 Expanding Small Employer Pooling Options for Paid Family Leave Act of 2021 Summary in Progress Executive Report 117-1 Tax Convention with Chile Proposed treaty to promote and facilitate trade and investment between the United States and Chile.

H.R.8152 - To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available.

HR2954 Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021 To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify retirement plan rules, and for other purposes. S1770 Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform retirement provisions, and for other purposes. S1870 The Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 The bill is designed to allow DC participants and IRA savers to take limited, penalty-free withdrawals from their DC plans or IRAs, under the premise of assisting with emergency expenses. This permits penalty-free distributions, up to $1,000, from tax-exempt retirement plans for emergency personal expenses, limited to one distribution in a calendar year. The bill allows repayment to plans of such distributions over a three-year period. S 2583 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for rules for the use of retirement funds in connection with federally declared disasters (Cassidy/Menendez): This bill allows penalty-free distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans for a federally declared disaster (i.e., a qualified disaster recovery distribution). The bill defines qualified disaster recovery distribution as any distribution within a 180 day period after a disaster declaration that is made to an individual whose principal residence is located in a qualified disaster area (an area for which a major disaster has been declared) and who has sustained an economic loss due to the disaster. The bill sets forth rules for the recontribution of withdrawals from a plan for first-time home purchases or for purchases or construction of a principal residence in a disaster area, and increases the limit on loans from a qualified employer plan that an individual may take in lieu of a distribution. HR 2741 Public Service Retirement Fairness Act. A bill to generally permit 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts (CIT) S 2452 Wyden SAVERS Credit: This bill sets forth provisions to provide matching payments for retirement savings and Individual Retirement Account (IRA) contributions for individuals who have attained the age of 18 years, excluding taxpayer dependents. Specifically, it allows an enhanced 50% tax credit, up to $2,000, for deductible retirement savings contributions and for IRA contributions. The bill also directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish the R-Bond Program as a permanent program for the establishment and maintenance of individual retirement plans and directs the IRS to educate taxpayers on the benefits of the savings programs provided by this bill. S 2446 Spousal Consent: A summary is in progress. S.4353 Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement to Supplement Healthy Investments for the Nest Egg Act. This bill addresses retirement system improvements under ERISA. A summary is in process. EARN Act S 4808: Summary is in Progress HR 9515, General Account Product Clarification Act Summary in process. Bill is intended to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

H.R.8152 - To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available.

S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress H.R. 5161 Expanding Small Employer Pooling Options for Paid Family Leave Act of 2021 Summary in Progress Executive Report 117-1 Tax Convention with Chile Proposed treaty to promote and facilitate trade and investment between the United States and Chile.

HR2954 Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021 To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify retirement plan rules, and for other purposes. S1770 Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform retirement provisions, and for other purposes. S1870 The Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 The bill is designed to allow DC participants and IRA savers to take limited, penalty-free withdrawals from their DC plans or IRAs, under the premise of assisting with emergency expenses. This permits penalty-free distributions, up to $1,000, from tax-exempt retirement plans for emergency personal expenses, limited to one distribution in a calendar year. The bill allows repayment to plans of such distributions over a three-year period. S 2583 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for rules for the use of retirement funds in connection with federally declared disasters (Cassidy/Menendez): This bill allows penalty-free distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans for a federally declared disaster (i.e., a qualified disaster recovery distribution). The bill defines qualified disaster recovery distribution as any distribution within a 180 day period after a disaster declaration that is made to an individual whose principal residence is located in a qualified disaster area (an area for which a major disaster has been declared) and who has sustained an economic loss due to the disaster. The bill sets forth rules for the recontribution of withdrawals from a plan for first-time home purchases or for purchases or construction of a principal residence in a disaster area, and increases the limit on loans from a qualified employer plan that an individual may take in lieu of a distribution. HR 2741 Public Service Retirement Fairness Act. A bill to generally permit 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts (CIT) S 2452 Wyden SAVERS Credit: This bill sets forth provisions to provide matching payments for retirement savings and Individual Retirement Account (IRA) contributions for individuals who have attained the age of 18 years, excluding taxpayer dependents. Specifically, it allows an enhanced 50% tax credit, up to $2,000, for deductible retirement savings contributions and for IRA contributions. The bill also directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish the R-Bond Program as a permanent program for the establishment and maintenance of individual retirement plans and directs the IRS to educate taxpayers on the benefits of the savings programs provided by this bill. S 2446 Spousal Consent: A summary is in progress. S.4353 Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement to Supplement Healthy Investments for the Nest Egg Act. This bill addresses retirement system improvements under ERISA. A summary is in process. EARN Act S 4808: Summary is in Progress

HR5376--Build Back Better Act: This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, childcare, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. (The bill is commonly referred to as the Build Back Better Act.). For example, the bill provides funding for: management of the National Forest System; job placement and career services; safe drinking water, energy-efficiency, and weatherization projects; electric vehicles and zero-emission, heavy-duty vehicles; public health infrastructure and supply chain resiliency; housing, rental, and homeowner assistance programs; cybersecurity programs; tribal infrastructure, housing, environmental, and health programs; wildfire prevention, drought relief, conservation efforts, and climate change research; small business assistance and development; transit services and clean energy projects in low-income communities; and infrastructure and administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Additionally, the bill establishes programs to provide up to six semesters of free community college, free childcare for children under the age of six, free universal preschool services, and health benefits for eligible individuals who reside in states that have not expanded Medicaid. The bill also includes provisions that establish a methane fee for certain petroleum and natural gas facilities; expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and vision care; provide certain aliens with a path to permanent resident status (e.g., those who entered the United States as minors); provide up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave; restructure and increase the tax rates for certain corporations and high-income individuals (e.g., individuals with income over $400,000); and require the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate maximum prices for certain brand-name drugs under Medicare.

S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress H.R. 5161 Expanding Small Employer Pooling Options for Paid Family Leave Act of 2021 Summary in Progress Executive Report 117-1 Tax Convention with Chile Proposed treaty to promote and facilitate trade and investment between the United States and Chile.

H.R.8152 - To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement. A legislative analyst in the Congressional Research Service will begin analyzing this legislation after text becomes available.

S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress H.R. 5161 Expanding Small Employer Pooling Options for Paid Family Leave Act of 2021 Summary in Progress Executive Report 117-1 Tax Convention with Chile Proposed treaty to promote and facilitate trade and investment between the United States and Chile.

HR2954 Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021 To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify retirement plan rules, and for other purposes. S1770 Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform retirement provisions, and for other purposes. S1870 The Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 The bill is designed to allow DC participants and IRA savers to take limited, penalty-free withdrawals from their DC plans or IRAs, under the premise of assisting with emergency expenses. S 1870 Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 (Benet/Lankford): This permits penalty-free distributions, up to $1,000, from tax-exempt retirement plans for emergency personal expenses, limited to one distribution in a calendar year. The bill allows repayment to plans of such distributions over a three-year period. S 2583 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for rules for the use of retirement funds in connection with federally declared disasters (Cassidy/Menendez): This bill allows penalty-free distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans for a federally declared disaster (i.e., a qualified disaster recovery distribution). The bill defines qualified disaster recovery distribution as any distribution within a 180 day period after a disaster declaration that is made to an individual whose principal residence is located in a qualified disaster area (an area for which a major disaster has been declared) and who has sustained an economic loss due to the disaster. The bill sets forth rules for the recontribution of withdrawals from a plan for first-time home purchases or for purchases or construction of a principal residence in a disaster area, and increases the limit on loans from a qualified employer plan that an individual may take in lieu of a distribution. HR 2741 Public Service Retirement Fairness Act. A bill to generally permit 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts (CIT) S 2452 Wyden SAVERS Credit: This bill sets forth provisions to provide matching payments for retirement savings and Individual Retirement Account (IRA) contributions for individuals who have attained the age of 18 years, excluding taxpayer dependents. Specifically, it allows an enhanced 50% tax credit, up to $2,000, for deductible retirement savings contributions and for IRA contributions. The bill also directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish the R-Bond Program as a permanent program for the establishment and maintenance of individual retirement plans and directs the IRS to educate taxpayers on the benefits of the savings programs provided by this bill. S 2446 Spousal Consent: A summary is in progress.

HR 1816 Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act: This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish requirements for certain entities when they collect, transmit, store, process, use, or otherwise control sensitive personal information. Information relating to an identifiable individual is generally considered sensitive personal information. However, information that is publicly available is not considered sensitive. Specifically, these entities must (1) obtain affirmative consent from users for functionality related to the disclosure of sensitive personal information, (2) publish a privacy and data use policy that is readily understandable, (3) provide users the ability to opt-out of the sharing of their nonsensitive information, and (4) obtain at least once every two years a privacy audit that evaluates the sufficiency of the entity's data privacy and security controls. These requirements do not apply to the collection or sharing of sensitive or nonsensitive personal information for certain purposes such as detecting fraud or identity theft.

HR 1799 PPP Extension Act of 2021 This bill extends the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), through June 30, 2021. Currently, the program is set to expire on March 31, 2021. For the final 30 days of the program (i.e., from June 1 until June 30), the Small Business Administration may only process applications submitted prior to June 1, and it may not accept any new loan applications. The bill excludes the budgetary effects of this bill from PAYGO scorecards under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and from Senate PAYGO scorecards. S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress

HR 1319 American Rescue Plan 0f 2021 This bill provides additional relief to address the continued impact of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Specifically, the bill provides funding for agriculture and nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program); schools and institutions of higher education; child care and programs for older Americans and their families; COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, treatment, and prevention; mental health and substance-use disorder services; emergency rental assistance, homeowner assistance, and other housing programs; payments to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments for economic relief; multiemployer pension plans; small business assistance, including specific programs for restaurants and live venues; programs for health care workers, transportation workers, federal employees, veterans, and other targeted populations; international and humanitarian responses; tribal government services; scientific research and development; state, territorial, and tribal capital projects that enable work, education, and health monitoring in response to COVID-19; and health care providers in rural areas. The bill also includes provisions that extend unemployment benefits and related services; make up to $10,200 of 2020 unemployment compensation tax-free; make student loan forgiveness tax-free through 2025; provide a maximum recovery rebate of $1,400 per eligible individual; expand and otherwise modify certain tax credits, including the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit; provide premium assistance for certain health insurance coverage; and require coverage, without cost-sharing, of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). HR5376--Build Back Better Act: This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, childcare, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. (The bill is commonly referred to as the Build Back Better Act.). For example, the bill provides funding for: management of the National Forest System; job placement and career services; safe drinking water, energy-efficiency, and weatherization projects; electric vehicles and zero-emission, heavy-duty vehicles; public health infrastructure and supply chain resiliency; housing, rental, and homeowner assistance programs; cybersecurity programs; tribal infrastructure, housing, environmental, and health programs; wildfire prevention, drought relief, conservation efforts, and climate change research; small business assistance and development; transit services and clean energy projects in low-income communities; and infrastructure and administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Additionally, the bill establishes programs to provide up to six semesters of free community college, free childcare for children under the age of six, free universal preschool services, and health benefits for eligible individuals who reside in states that have not expanded Medicaid. The bill also includes provisions that establish a methane fee for certain petroleum and natural gas facilities; expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and vision care; provide certain aliens with a path to permanent resident status (e.g., those who entered the United States as minors); provide up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave; restructure and increase the tax rates for certain corporations and high-income individuals (e.g., individuals with income over $400,000); and require the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate maximum prices for certain brand-name drugs under Medicare.

HR 1319 American Rescue Plan 0f 2021 This bill provides additional relief to address the continued impact of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Specifically, the bill provides funding for agriculture and nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program); schools and institutions of higher education; child care and programs for older Americans and their families; COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, treatment, and prevention; mental health and substance-use disorder services; emergency rental assistance, homeowner assistance, and other housing programs; payments to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments for economic relief; multiemployer pension plans; small business assistance, including specific programs for restaurants and live venues; programs for health care workers, transportation workers, federal employees, veterans, and other targeted populations; international and humanitarian responses; tribal government services; scientific research and development; state, territorial, and tribal capital projects that enable work, education, and health monitoring in response to COVID-19; and health care providers in rural areas. The bill also includes provisions that extend unemployment benefits and related services; make up to $10,200 of 2020 unemployment compensation tax-free; make student loan forgiveness tax-free through 2025; provide a maximum recovery rebate of $1,400 per eligible individual; expand and otherwise modify certain tax credits, including the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit; provide premium assistance for certain health insurance coverage; and require coverage, without cost-sharing, of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). HR5376--Build Back Better Act: This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, childcare, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. (The bill is commonly referred to as the Build Back Better Act.). For example, the bill provides funding for: management of the National Forest System; job placement and career services; safe drinking water, energy-efficiency, and weatherization projects; electric vehicles and zero-emission, heavy-duty vehicles; public health infrastructure and supply chain resiliency; housing, rental, and homeowner assistance programs; cybersecurity programs; tribal infrastructure, housing, environmental, and health programs; wildfire prevention, drought relief, conservation efforts, and climate change research; small business assistance and development; transit services and clean energy projects in low-income communities; and infrastructure and administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Additionally, the bill establishes programs to provide up to six semesters of free community college, free childcare for children under the age of six, free universal preschool services, and health benefits for eligible individuals who reside in states that have not expanded Medicaid. The bill also includes provisions that establish a methane fee for certain petroleum and natural gas facilities; expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and vision care; provide certain aliens with a path to permanent resident status (e.g., those who entered the United States as minors); provide up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave; restructure and increase the tax rates for certain corporations and high-income individuals (e.g., individuals with income over $400,000); and require the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate maximum prices for certain brand-name drugs under Medicare.

HR 1799 PPP Extension Act of 2021 This bill extends the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), through June 30, 2021. Currently, the program is set to expire on March 31, 2021. For the final 30 days of the program (i.e., from June 1 until June 30), the Small Business Administration may only process applications submitted prior to June 1, and it may not accept any new loan applications. The bill excludes the budgetary effects of this bill from PAYGO scorecards under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and from Senate PAYGO scorecards. S 2621 Modernization of Derivatives Act of 2021: This bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives. A derivative is any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or other transfer with respect to which, is (directly or indirectly) determined by reference to another specified item. The bill modifies the tax treatment of derivatives to (1) require mark to market treatment (treating the contracts as if they had been terminated or transferred at fair market value at the end of the year) for derivatives not terminated or transferred during the year, (2) require gains and losses to be taxed at ordinary tax rates and sourced to the taxpayer's country of residence, and (3) revise the reporting requirements and tax rules that apply to taxpayers that use derivatives to hedge capital assets. The bill includes several exceptions for certain real property; hedging transactions; securities lending, sale-repurchase, and similar financing transactions; options received in connection with the performance of services; insurance contracts, annuities, and endowments; derivatives with respect to stock of members of the same worldwide affiliated group; and commodities used in the normal course or trade of business. S 2758 Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2021: A summary is in progress

HR 1799 PPP Extension Act of 2021 This bill extends the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), through June 30, 2021. Currently, the program is set to expire on March 31, 2021. For the final 30 days of the program (i.e., from June 1 until June 30), the Small Business Administration may only process applications submitted prior to June 1, and it may not accept any new loan applications. The bill excludes the budgetary effects of this bill from PAYGO scorecards under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and from Senate PAYGO scorecards.

HR2954 Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021 To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify retirement plan rules, and for other purposes. S1770 Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform retirement provisions, and for other purposes. S1870 The Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 The bill is designed to allow DC participants and IRA savers to take limited, penalty-free withdrawals from their DC plans or IRAs, under the premise of assisting with emergency expenses.

HR 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free COVID-19 testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid funding. HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. S4626: Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE DATA) Act A bill to establish data privacy and data security protections for consumers in the United States. HR 2694: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act This bill prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A qualified employee is an employee or applicant who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position, with specified exceptions. Specifically, the bill declares that it is an unlawful employment practice to, among other things fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations of such employees unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on an entity's business operation; require a qualified employee affected by such condition to accept an accommodation other than any reasonable accommodation arrived at through an interactive process; deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee; require such employees to take paid or unpaid leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided; or take adverse action in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against a qualified employee requesting or using such reasonable accommodations. The bill sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies that cover different types of employees in relation to such unlawful employment practices.

HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. S 3548 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. HR 6257 Public Service Retirement Fairness Act of 2020 The bill would amend the Code to permit 403(b)(7) custodial accounts to invest in group trusts intended to satisfy the requirements of Revenue Ruling 81-100 (i.e., collective trust funds), in addition to the stock of regulated investment companies. The bill would also amend the securities registration exemptions to treat 403(b) plans like 401(a) plans with respect to their ability to invest in collective investment trusts and insurance company separate accounts, provided that: (1) the plan is subject to ERISA; (2) the plan sponsor accepts fiduciary responsibility for selecting the investments that participants can select under the plan; (3) the plan is a governmental plan; or (4) the plan has a separate exemption from the securities rules. The bill would also clarify an existing securities law exemption for 403(b) custodial accounts HR 133, The Consolidated Appropriations Act: This bill directs the Department of State to develop a strategy to enhance economic cooperation and expand professional and educational exchange programs between the United States and Mexico. The State Department shall develop strategies to encourage more academic exchanges between the countries, as well as exchanges to encourage strengthening business skills and entrepreneurship. The State Department shall also promote energy infrastructure coordination and educational development. It shall also assess ways to develop partnerships between the countries' medical and nursing schools. The plan should ensure that accreditation standards for such schools are comparable so that students in Mexico can pass the licensing exams needed to practice in the United States.

HR6800: Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act: This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Among other things, the bill: provides FY2020 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies; provides payments and other assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; provides additional direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual; expands paid sick days, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, nutrition and food assistance programs, housing assistance, and payments to farmers; modifies and expands the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans and grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations; establishes a fund to award grants for employers to provide pandemic premium pay for essential workers; expands several tax credits and deductions; provides funding and establishes requirements for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing; eliminates cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments; extends and expands the moratorium on certain evictions and foreclosures; and requires employers to develop and implement infectious disease exposure control plans. The bill also modifies or expands a wide range of other programs and policies, including those regarding Medicare and Medicaid, health insurance, broadband service, medical product supplies, immigration, student loans and financial aid, the federal workforce, prisons, veterans benefits, consumer protection requirements, the U.S. Postal Service, federal elections, aviation and railroad workers, and pension and retirement plans.

HR 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free COVID-19 testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid funding. HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. S4626: Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE DATA) Act A bill to establish data privacy and data security protections for consumers in the United States. HR 2694: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act This bill prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A qualified employee is an employee or applicant who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position, with specified exceptions. Specifically, the bill declares that it is an unlawful employment practice to, among other things fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations of such employees unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on an entity's business operation; require a qualified employee affected by such condition to accept an accommodation other than any reasonable accommodation arrived at through an interactive process; deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee; require such employees to take paid or unpaid leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided; or take adverse action in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against a qualified employee requesting or using such reasonable accommodations. The bill sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies that cover different types of employees in relation to such unlawful employment practices.

HR 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free COVID-19 testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid funding. HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority.

HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. S 3548 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority. HR 6257 Public Service Retirement Fairness Act of 2020 The bill would amend the Code to permit 403(b)(7) custodial accounts to invest in group trusts intended to satisfy the requirements of Revenue Ruling 81-100 (i.e., collective trust funds), in addition to the stock of regulated investment companies. The bill would also amend the securities registration exemptions to treat 403(b) plans like 401(a) plans with respect to their ability to invest in collective investment trusts and insurance company separate accounts, provided that: (1) the plan is subject to ERISA; (2) the plan sponsor accepts fiduciary responsibility for selecting the investments that participants can select under the plan; (3) the plan is a governmental plan; or (4) the plan has a separate exemption from the securities rules. The bill would also clarify an existing securities law exemption for 403(b) custodial accounts

HR 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free COVID-19 testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid funding. HR 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. The bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations for federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. In addition, the bill funds various loans, grants, and other forms of assistance for businesses, industries, states, local governments, and hospitals; provides tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual and an additional $500 per child, subject to limits based on adjusted gross income; temporarily expands unemployment benefits; and suspends payments and interest on federal student loans. The bill includes several other provisions that modify a wide range of programs and requirements, including those regarding oversight of the activities and funding authorized by this bill; the tax treatment of withdrawals from retirement accounts, business income, losses, and charitable contributions; medical product supplies; health insurance coverage for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations; the health care and aviation workforces; mortgage payments, evictions, and foreclosures for properties with federally backed mortgages; student loans and financial aid; aviation excise taxes; Medicare and Medicaid; the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process; the emergency paid sick leave program; banking and accounting rules; and the U.S. Postal Service's borrowing authority.

HR3301 Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide disaster relief, and for other purposes. S617 Tax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide disaster tax relief, and for other purposes.

HR1418 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. S350 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. HR1862 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 - To abolish the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S463 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. HR1185 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. S920 New Parents Act - To amend title II of the Social Security Act to make available parental leave benefits to parents following the birth or adoption of a child, and for other purposes. S1586 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 This bill eliminates the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the Department of the Treasury. The bill also removes the FIO director as a nonvoting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. S1628 Paid Family Leave Pilot Extension Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the employer credit for paid family and medical leave, and for other purposes. HR4592 International Insurance Standards Act of 2019 To preserve the State-based system of insurance regulation and provide greater oversight of and transparency on international insurance standards setting processes, and for other purposes. HR4634 Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019 This bill reauthorizes through 2027 the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program within the Department of the Treasury. The Government Accountability Office must report on insurance coverage of cyberterrorism. HR5296 Advancing Support for Working Families Act This bill allows individual taxpayers an election to advance up to $5,000 of the child tax credit in the year of birth or adoption of an applicable qualifying child (a child, other than an eligible foster child, who has a specified relationship to the taxpayer and meets certain age, residency, and support requirements). The bill sets forth a special rule for parents who do not qualify for the full refundable portion of the child tax credit. The advance amount for such parents is the lesser of $5,000, or 25% of their earned income amount for the taxable year. The bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on matters relating to taxpayers who make an election to advance the child tax credit. S2976 Advancing Support for Working Families Act This bill allows individual taxpayers an election to advance up to $5,000 of the child tax credit in the year of birth or adoption of an applicable qualifying child (a child, other than an eligible foster child, who has a specified relationship to the taxpayer and meets certain age, residency, and support requirements). The bill sets forth a special rule for parents who do not qualify for the full refundable portion of the child tax credit. The advance amount for such parents is the lesser of $5,000, or 25% of their earned income amount for the taxable year. The bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on matters relating to taxpayers who make an election to advance the child tax credit

S630 Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act - To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 with respect to arbitration. S592 Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2019 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to promote transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded companies. HR1815 SEC Disclosure Effectiveness Testing Act - To require the Securities and Exchange Commission, when developing rules and regulations about disclosures to retail investors, to conduct investor testing, including a survey and interviews of retail investors, and for other purposes. S1010 Corporate Executive Accountability Act - A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish criminal liability for negligent executive officers of major corporations, and for other purposes. S603 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 - To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. S142 American Data Dissemination Act of 2019 - To impose privacy requirements on providers of internet services similar to the requirements imposed on Federal agencies under the Privacy Act of 1974. HR3561 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. HR1865 - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 - Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

S22 Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2019 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program.

HR 1994 - The SECURE Act - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 1993 - Providing Retirement Security to Workers in Small Businesses, Cooperatives, and Service Organizations Act of 2019 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the rules relating to multiple employer plans and pooled employer plans and to modify PBGC premiums for CSEC plans. HR 1007 - Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 982 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. HR 1084 - Family Savings Act of 2019 - o amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement and family savings, and for other purposes. HR 1439 - Increasing Access to s Secure Retirement Act of 2019 - To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide a fiduciary safe harbor for the selection of a lifetime income provider, and for other purposes. S 354 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. his bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. S 972 - Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR1938 Small Employer Retirement Savings Auto-Enrollment Credit Act This bill allows a three-year $500 business-related tax credit for eligible small employers who include and maintain an automatic contribution arrangement in an employer-sponsored retirement plan. An "eligible employer" is an employer with no more than 100 employees who received at least $5,000 of compensation from the employer for the preceding year. S321 Retirement Security Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify safe harbor requirements applicable to automatic contribution arrangements, and for other purposes.

HR 5 Equality Act This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a wide variety of areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.

HR 5 Equality Act This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a wide variety of areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.

S630 Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act - To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 with respect to arbitration. S592 Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2019 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to promote transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded companies. HR1815 SEC Disclosure Effectiveness Testing Act - To require the Securities and Exchange Commission, when developing rules and regulations about disclosures to retail investors, to conduct investor testing, including a survey and interviews of retail investors, and for other purposes. S1010 Corporate Executive Accountability Act - A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish criminal liability for negligent executive officers of major corporations, and for other purposes. S603 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 - To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. S142 American Data Dissemination Act of 2019 - To impose privacy requirements on providers of internet services similar to the requirements imposed on Federal agencies under the Privacy Act of 1974. HR3561 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

HR1418 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. S350 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. HR1862 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 - To abolish the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S463 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. HR1185 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. S920 New Parents Act - To amend title II of the Social Security Act to make available parental leave benefits to parents following the birth or adoption of a child, and for other purposes. S1586 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 This bill eliminates the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the Department of the Treasury. The bill also removes the FIO director as a nonvoting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. S1628 Paid Family Leave Pilot Extension Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the employer credit for paid family and medical leave, and for other purposes. HR4592 International Insurance Standards Act of 2019 To preserve the State-based system of insurance regulation and provide greater oversight of and transparency on international insurance standards setting processes, and for other purposes.

S22 Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2019 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program.

HR3301 Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide disaster relief, and for other purposes. S617 Tax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide disaster tax relief, and for other purposes.

HR 1994 - The SECURE Act - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 1993 - Providing Retirement Security to Workers in Small Businesses, Cooperatives, and Service Organizations Act of 2019 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the rules relating to multiple employer plans and pooled employer plans and to modify PBGC premiums for CSEC plans. HR 1007 - Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 982 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. HR 1084 - Family Savings Act of 2019 - o amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement and family savings, and for other purposes. HR 1439 - Increasing Access to s Secure Retirement Act of 2019 - To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide a fiduciary safe harbor for the selection of a lifetime income provider, and for other purposes. S 354 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. his bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. S 972 - Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR1938 Small Employer Retirement Savings Auto-Enrollment Credit Act This bill allows a three-year $500 business-related tax credit for eligible small employers who include and maintain an automatic contribution arrangement in an employer-sponsored retirement plan. An "eligible employer" is an employer with no more than 100 employees who received at least $5,000 of compensation from the employer for the preceding year. S321 Retirement Security Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify safe harbor requirements applicable to automatic contribution arrangements, and for other purposes.

HR 5 Equality Act This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a wide variety of areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.

HR3301 Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act of 2019 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide disaster relief, and for other purposes.

HR1418 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. S350 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. HR1862 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 - To abolish the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S463 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. HR1185 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. S920 New Parents Act - To amend title II of the Social Security Act to make available parental leave benefits to parents following the birth or adoption of a child, and for other purposes. S1586 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 This bill eliminates the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the Department of the Treasury. The bill also removes the FIO director as a nonvoting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. S1628 Paid Family Leave Pilot Extension Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the employer credit for paid family and medical leave, and for other purposes.

HR 1994 - The SECURE Act - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 1993 - Not Yet Titled - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the rules relating to multiple employer plans and pooled employer plans and to modify PBGC premiums for CSEC plans. HR 1007 - Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR 982 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. HR 1084 - Family Savings Act of 2019 - o amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement and family savings, and for other purposes. HR 1439 - Increasing Access to s Secure Retirement Act of 2019 - To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide a fiduciary safe harbor for the selection of a lifetime income provider, and for other purposes. S 354 - Not Yet Titled - To avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. his bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The requirement applies to a group in which all of the plans are individual account plans or defined contribution plans; have the same trustee, the same one or more named fiduciaries, the same administrator, and plan years beginning on the same date; and provide the same investments or investment options to participants and beneficiaries. The bill also specifies that, for the purposes of applying the numerical limitations related to the electronic filing of returns for deferred compensation plans, each plan for which information is provided on the return must be treated as a separate return. S 972 - Not Yet Titled - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes. HR1938 Small Employer Retirement Savings Auto-Enrollment Credit Act This bill allows a three-year $500 business-related tax credit for eligible small employers who include and maintain an automatic contribution arrangement in an employer-sponsored retirement plan. An "eligible employer" is an employer with no more than 100 employees who received at least $5,000 of compensation from the employer for the preceding year.

S22 Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2019 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program.

S630 Arbitration Fairness for Consumers Act - To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 with respect to arbitration. S592 Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2019 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to promote transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded companies. HR1815 SEC Disclosure Effectiveness Testing Act - To require the Securities and Exchange Commission, when developing rules and regulations about disclosures to retail investors, to conduct investor testing, including a survey and interviews of retail investors, and for other purposes. S1010 Corporate Executive Accountability Act - A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish criminal liability for negligent executive officers of major corporations, and for other purposes. S603 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 - To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. S142 American Data Dissemination Act of 2019 - To impose privacy requirements on providers of internet services similar to the requirements imposed on Federal agencies under the Privacy Act of 1974. HR3561 Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

HR1418 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. S350 Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 - To restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers. HR1862 Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2019 - To abolish the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. S463 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. HR1185 Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act - To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes. S920 New Parents Act - To amend title II of the Social Security Act to make available parental leave benefits to parents following the birth or adoption of a child, and for other purposes.

S386 Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 - This bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China. The bill also establishes transition rules for employment-based visas from FY2020-FY2022, by reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability) and EB-3 (skilled and other workers) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas. Of the unreserved visas, not more than 85% shall be allotted to immigrants from any single country. HR1044 Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 - This bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China. The bill also establishes transition rules for employment-based visas from FY2020-FY2022, by reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability) and EB-3 (skilled and other workers) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas. Of the unreserved visas, not more than 85% shall be allotted to immigrants from any single country. HR 1283 - Not Yet Titled - To establish a nonpartisan commission on immigration reform and border security - S874 Dream Act of 2019 - To authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain individuals who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes. HR6 American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 - To authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens, and for other purposes.

S22 Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2019 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental services under the Medicare program.

HR 761/S270: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). H.R.1962/S852: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017 - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. H.R.2055/S.868: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1321: The Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act, The bill outlines a best interest standard as an alternative to the DOL fiduciary rule. H.R. 2823: The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act - The bill would overturn the DOL fiduciary rule while requiring financial advisors to act in their clients best interest. The bill would also implement disclosure requirements to improve transparency. H.R.3596 - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) modify the formula that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) uses to calculate the funded percentage of single-employer pension plans, and (2) reduce single-employer PBGC premiums for pension plans that are sponsored by certain small employers or have specified PBGC funded percentages. H.R.3857 - The Protecting Advice For Small Savers (PASS) Act Of 2017. repeal the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, create a best interest standard for broker-dealers, requires broker-dealers to disclose compensation they receive and any conflict of interest that exists, limit U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule making authority under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, prevent Department of Treasury and DOL from promulgating fiduciary regulations on broker-dealers under The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and preempts state laws avoiding a patchwork of standards. HR. 4158: Retirement Plan Modernization Act - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to increase from $5,000 to $7,600 the amount of accrued benefits in a pension plan that may be immediately distributed without the consent of the participant. The bill also requires the increased limit to be adjusted for inflation after 2018. H.R.4523: The bill would permit unrelated employers to participate in a MEP; relieve employers with 100 or fewer employees of fiduciary duty if they participate in a MEP offered by a provider that agrees to assume fiduciary responsibility and meets certain other requirements; and retirement plan mandate. H.R.4524: "Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2017" - To expand retirement coverage, preserve retirement income, simplify rules related to retirement plans. H.R.4604: "Increasing Access to a Secure Retirement Act of 2017" - Standalone annuity selection safe harbor H.R.4610: "Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act" - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the electronic delivery of pension plan documents required to be furnished to a plan participant, beneficiary, or other individual. H.R.4637: "SAVE Act of 2017" - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings by modifying requirements with respect to employer-established IRAs. H.R.5282/S.2526: Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act - The bill would encourages workers to save more for retirement, and small employer retirement plan coverage, worker participation and education, and facilitates guaranteed lifetime income in retirement.

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees. S1615: Dream Act of 2017 - This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel removal and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable or is in temporary protected status who: (1) has been continuously physically present in the United States for four years preceding this bill's enactment; (2) was younger than 18 years of age on the initial date of U.S. entry; (3) is not inadmissible on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) has not participated in persecution; (5) has not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses; and (6) has fulfilled specified educational requirements. HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

H.R. 1606: Dental and Optometric Care Access Act - a bill to empower doctors and patients in their dealings with plans, eliminate a growing level of anti-competitive practices in health care, and help improve overall quality of patient care. H.R. 4225/S. 2241: A bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit a state from funding its health insurance exchange by charging a health insurer a fee or tax for excepted benefits coverage (benefits not subject to requirements under the Act) or standalone dental plans that are not sold on an exchange.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections. S. 488 JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018 This bill encourages employee ownership. It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase, from $5 million to $10 million, the 12-month sales threshold beyond which an issuer is required to provide investors with additional disclosures related to compensatory benefit plans.

HR 1: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to reduce tax rates and modify policies, credits, and deductions for individuals and businesses.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections. S. 488 JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018 This bill encourages employee ownership. It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase, from $5 million to $10 million, the 12-month sales threshold beyond which an issuer is required to provide investors with additional disclosures related to compensatory benefit plans.

H.R. 372: Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017 -(Sec. 2) This bill amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to declare that nothing in that Act modifies, impairs, or supersedes the operation of antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance, including the business of dental insurance. This declaration does not apply to a contract, combination, or conspiracy to: (1) collect, compile, or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor for historical loss data; (3) perform actuarial services if the collaboration does not involve a restraint of trade; or (4) develop or disseminate a standard insurance policy form if adherence to the form is not required. H.R. 3746/S. 2702: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act - the bill would clarify the insurance exclusion from CFPB jurisdiction and reaffirm that enforcement is broadly construed in favor of the authority of the state insurance regulator. H.R. 3762:International Insurance Standards Act of 2017 -the bill would provide Congress a more active role in monitoring and reviewing international insurance agreements. H.R. 3861: Federal Insurance Office Reform Act of 2017 - the bill would eliminate the FIO's ability to subpoena information from insurers, block the office from participating on insurance companies regulatory oversight panels, and weaken the agency's authority in negotiating insurance deals with foreign governments. H.R. 4537: would require negotiators of international insurance agreements to oppose any proposal that is inconsistent with existing federal and state laws. The bill would require negotiators to consult with state insurance commissioners and the Congress. The bill also would provide the Congress with a process to disapprove of any international insurance agreement. H.R. 5666/S. 3177: Primary Regulators of Insurance Vote Act of 2018 - This bill would allow the President to appoint a state insurance commissioner as a voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC).

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees. S1615: Dream Act of 2017 - This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel removal and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable or is in temporary protected status who: (1) has been continuously physically present in the United States for four years preceding this bill's enactment; (2) was younger than 18 years of age on the initial date of U.S. entry; (3) is not inadmissible on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) has not participated in persecution; (5) has not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses; and (6) has fulfilled specified educational requirements. HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees. S1615: Dream Act of 2017 - This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel removal and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable or is in temporary protected status who: (1) has been continuously physically present in the United States for four years preceding this bill's enactment; (2) was younger than 18 years of age on the initial date of U.S. entry; (3) is not inadmissible on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) has not participated in persecution; (5) has not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses; and (6) has fulfilled specified educational requirements. HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

HR 761/S270: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). H.R.1962/S852: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017 - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. H.R.2055/S.868: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1321: The Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act, The bill outlines a best interest standard as an alternative to the DOL fiduciary rule. H.R. 2823: The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act - The bill would overturn the DOL fiduciary rule while requiring financial advisors to act in their clients best interest. The bill would also implement disclosure requirements to improve transparency. H.R.3596 - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) modify the formula that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) uses to calculate the funded percentage of single-employer pension plans, and (2) reduce single-employer PBGC premiums for pension plans that are sponsored by certain small employers or have specified PBGC funded percentages. H.R.3857 - The Protecting Advice For Small Savers (PASS) Act Of 2017. repeal the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, create a best interest standard for broker-dealers, requires broker-dealers to disclose compensation they receive and any conflict of interest that exists, limit U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule making authority under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, prevent Department of Treasury and DOL from promulgating fiduciary regulations on broker-dealers under The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and preempts state laws avoiding a patchwork of standards. HR. 4158: Retirement Plan Modernization Act - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to increase from $5,000 to $7,600 the amount of accrued benefits in a pension plan that may be immediately distributed without the consent of the participant. The bill also requires the increased limit to be adjusted for inflation after 2018. H.R.4523: The bill would permit unrelated employers to participate in a MEP; relieve employers with 100 or fewer employees of fiduciary duty if they participate in a MEP offered by a provider that agrees to assume fiduciary responsibility and meets certain other requirements; and retirement plan mandate. H.R.4524: "Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2017" - To expand retirement coverage, preserve retirement income, simplify rules related to retirement plans. H.R.4604: "Increasing Access to a Secure Retirement Act of 2017" - Standalone annuity selection safe harbor H.R.4610: "Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act" - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the electronic delivery of pension plan documents required to be furnished to a plan participant, beneficiary, or other individual. H.R.4637: "SAVE Act of 2017" - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings by modifying requirements with respect to employer-established IRAs. H.R.5282/S.2526: Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act - The bill would encourages workers to save more for retirement, and small employer retirement plan coverage, worker participation and education, and facilitates guaranteed lifetime income in retirement.

HR 1: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to reduce tax rates and modify policies, credits, and deductions for individuals and businesses.

H.R. 1606: Dental and Optometric Care Access Act - a bill to empower doctors and patients in their dealings with plans, eliminate a growing level of anti-competitive practices in health care, and help improve overall quality of patient care. H.R. 4225/S. 2241: A bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit a state from funding its health insurance exchange by charging a health insurer a fee or tax for excepted benefits coverage (benefits not subject to requirements under the Act) or standalone dental plans that are not sold on an exchange.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections.

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees. S1615: Dream Act of 2017 - This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel removal and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable or is in temporary protected status who: (1) has been continuously physically present in the United States for four years preceding this bill's enactment; (2) was younger than 18 years of age on the initial date of U.S. entry; (3) is not inadmissible on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) has not participated in persecution; (5) has not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses; and (6) has fulfilled specified educational requirements. HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

HR 1: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to reduce tax rates and modify policies, credits, and deductions for individuals and businesses.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections.

H.R. 372: Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017 -(Sec. 2) This bill amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to declare that nothing in that Act modifies, impairs, or supersedes the operation of antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance, including the business of dental insurance. This declaration does not apply to a contract, combination, or conspiracy to: (1) collect, compile, or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor for historical loss data; (3) perform actuarial services if the collaboration does not involve a restraint of trade; or (4) develop or disseminate a standard insurance policy form if adherence to the form is not required. H.R. 3746: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act - the bill would clarify the insurance exclusion from CFPB jurisdiction and reaffirm that enforcement is broadly construed in favor of the authority of the state insurance regulator. H.R. 3762:International Insurance Standards Act of 2017 -the bill would provide Congress a more active role in monitoring and reviewing international insurance agreements. H.R. 3861: Federal Insurance Office Reform Act of 2017 - the bill would eliminate the FIO's ability to subpoena information from insurers, block the office from participating on insurance companies regulatory oversight panels, and weaken the agency's authority in negotiating insurance deals with foreign governments. H.R. 4537: would require negotiators of international insurance agreements to oppose any proposal that is inconsistent with existing federal and state laws. The bill would require negotiators to consult with state insurance commissioners and the Congress. The bill also would provide the Congress with a process to disapprove of any international insurance agreement.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections.

HR 761/S270: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). H.R.1962/S852: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017 - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. H.R.2055/S.868: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1321: The Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act, The bill outlines a best interest standard as an alternative to the DOL fiduciary rule. H.R. 2823: The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act - The bill would overturn the DOL fiduciary rule while requiring financial advisors to act in their clients best interest. The bill would also implement disclosure requirements to improve transparency. H.R.3857 - The Protecting Advice For Small Savers (PASS) Act Of 2017. repeal the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, create a best interest standard for broker-dealers, requires broker-dealers to disclose compensation they receive and any conflict of interest that exists, limit U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule making authority under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, prevent Department of Treasury and DOL from promulgating fiduciary regulations on broker-dealers under The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and preempts state laws avoiding a patchwork of standards. H.R.4524: "Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2017" - To expand retirement coverage, preserve retirement income, simplify rules related to retirement plans. H.R.4604: "Increasing Access to a Secure Retirement Act of 2017" - Standalone annuity selection safe harbor H.R.4610: "Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act" - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the electronic delivery of pension plan documents required to be furnished to a plan participant, beneficiary, or other individual. H.R.4637: "SAVE Act of 2017" - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings by modifying requirements with respect to employer-established IRAs.

HR 1262: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of certain life insurance contract transactions. The bill establishes reporting requirements for acquisitions of life insurance contracts in a reportable policy sale. Specified details must be reported regarding: the payments, contracts, and people involved in the acquisition; the seller's basis; and payments of death benefits. HR 1: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to reduce tax rates and modify policies, credits, and deductions for individuals and businesses.

H.R. 1606: Dental and Optometric Care Access Act - a bill to empower doctors and patients in their dealings with plans, eliminate a growing level of anti-competitive practices in health care, and help improve overall quality of patient care.

HR 1262: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of certain life insurance contract transactions. The bill establishes reporting requirements for acquisitions of life insurance contracts in a reportable policy sale. Specified details must be reported regarding: the payments, contracts, and people involved in the acquisition; the seller's basis; and payments of death benefits. HR 1: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to reduce tax rates and modify policies, credits, and deductions for individuals and businesses.

H.R. 1606: Dental and Optometric Care Access Act - a bill to empower doctors and patients in their dealings with plans, eliminate a growing level of anti-competitive practices in health care, and help improve overall quality of patient care.

H.R. 372: Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017 -(Sec. 2) This bill amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to declare that nothing in that Act modifies, impairs, or supersedes the operation of antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance, including the business of dental insurance. This declaration does not apply to a contract, combination, or conspiracy to: (1) collect, compile, or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor for historical loss data; (3) perform actuarial services if the collaboration does not involve a restraint of trade; or (4) develop or disseminate a standard insurance policy form if adherence to the form is not required. H.R. 3746: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act - the bill would clarify the insurance exclusion from CFPB jurisdiction and reaffirm that enforcement is broadly construed in favor of the authority of the state insurance regulator. H.R. 3762:International Insurance Standards Act of 2017 -the bill would provide Congress a more active role in monitoring and reviewing international insurance agreements. H.R. 3861: Federal Insurance Office Reform Act of 2017 - the bill would eliminate the FIO's ability to subpoena information from insurers, block the office from participating on insurance companies regulatory oversight panels, and weaken the agency's authority in negotiating insurance deals with foreign governments.

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees. S1615: Dream Act of 2017 - This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel removal and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable or is in temporary protected status who: (1) has been continuously physically present in the United States for four years preceding this bill's enactment; (2) was younger than 18 years of age on the initial date of U.S. entry; (3) is not inadmissible on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) has not participated in persecution; (5) has not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses; and (6) has fulfilled specified educational requirements. HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

HR 10: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 - The bill amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill removes the Financial Stability Oversight Council's authority to designate non-bank financial institutions and financial market utilities as "systemically important" (also known as "too big to fail"). In addition, the bill modifies provisions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's managerial structure and enforcement authority; eliminates the Office of Financial Research within the Department of the Treasury; and revises provisions related to capital formation, insurance regulation, civil penalties for securities laws violations, and community financial institutions. H.R. 2148: Clarifying High Volatility Commercial Real Estate Loans - the bill seeks to clearly define what qualifies or does not qualify as an HVCRE loan. S.2155: To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections.

H.R. 372: Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017 -(Sec. 2) This bill amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to declare that nothing in that Act modifies, impairs, or supersedes the operation of antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance, including the business of dental insurance. This declaration does not apply to a contract, combination, or conspiracy to: (1) collect, compile, or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor for historical loss data; (3) perform actuarial services if the collaboration does not involve a restraint of trade; or (4) develop or disseminate a standard insurance policy form if adherence to the form is not required. H.R.3110/S.1463: Financial Stability Oversight Council Insurance Member Continuity Act - The bill would allow the Financial Stability and Oversight Council (FSOC) to continue to benefit from the important insight and contributions of the independent member with insurance expertise if his/her replacement has not been confirmed. H.R. 3746: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act - the bill would clarify the insurance exclusion from CFPB jurisdiction and reaffirm that enforcement is broadly construed in favor of the authority of the state insurance regulator. H.R. 3762:International Insurance Standards Act of 2017 -the bill would provide Congress a more active role in monitoring and reviewing international insurance agreements. H.R. 3861: Federal Insurance Office Reform Act of 2017 - the bill would eliminate the FIO's ability to subpoena information from insurers, block the office from participating on insurance companies regulatory oversight panels, and weaken the agency's authority in negotiating insurance deals with foreign governments.

HR 1262: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of certain life insurance contract transactions. The bill establishes reporting requirements for acquisitions of life insurance contracts in a reportable policy sale. Specified details must be reported regarding: the payments, contracts, and people involved in the acquisition; the seller's basis; and payments of death benefits.

HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

S1852: Solution for Undocumented Children Through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending Our Nation Act - A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as childre. S354/S1720: the bill would create a skills-based immigration points system, end the Diversity Visa Program, and reduce the number of family-based immigrants and refugees.

H.J. Res 66: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by states for non-governmental employees. (The rule describes circumstances in which state payroll deduction savings programs with automatic enrollment would not give rise to the establishment of employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. It provides guidance to states designing the programs to reduce the risk of ERISA preemption of state laws and private-sector employers that may be covered by the state laws.) H.J. Res 67: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by qualified state political subdivisions for non-governmental employees. (The rule amends a final regulation that describes how states may design and operate payroll deduction savings programs for private-sector employees, including programs that use automatic enrollment, without causing the states or private-sector employers to have established employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. The amendment expands the regulation beyond states to cover qualified state political subdivisions and their programs that otherwise comply with the regulation.) HR 761/S270: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). H.R.1962/S852: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017 - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. H.R.2055/S.868: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1321: The Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act, The bill outlines a best interest standard as an alternative to the DOL fiduciary rule. H.R. 2823: The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act - The bill would overturn the DOL fiduciary rule while requiring financial advisors to act in their clients best interest. The bill would also implement disclosure requirements to improve transparency. H.R.3857 - The Protecting Advice For Small Savers (PASS) Act Of 2017. repeal the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, create a best interest standard for broker-dealers, requires broker-dealers to disclose compensation they receive and any conflict of interest that exists, limit U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule making authority under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, prevent Department of Treasury and DOL from promulgating fiduciary regulations on broker-dealers under The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and preempts state laws avoiding a patchwork of standards.

H.J. Res 66: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by states for non-governmental employees. (The rule describes circumstances in which state payroll deduction savings programs with automatic enrollment would not give rise to the establishment of employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. It provides guidance to states designing the programs to reduce the risk of ERISA preemption of state laws and private-sector employers that may be covered by the state laws.) H.J. Res 67: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by qualified state political subdivisions for non-governmental employees. (The rule amends a final regulation that describes how states may design and operate payroll deduction savings programs for private-sector employees, including programs that use automatic enrollment, without causing the states or private-sector employers to have established employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. The amendment expands the regulation beyond states to cover qualified state political subdivisions and their programs that otherwise comply with the regulation.) HR 761/S270: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). H.R.1962/S852: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017 - This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. H.R.2055/S.868: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1321: The Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act, The bill outlines a best interest standard as an alternative to the DOL fiduciary rule. H.R. 2823: The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act - The bill would overturn the DOL fiduciary rule while requiring financial advisors to act in their clients best interest. The bill would also implement disclosure requirements to improve transparency.

HR.1303/S.180: this bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to the United States from abroad). H-1B employer application requirements are revised.

H.R. 1606: Dental and Optometric Care Access Act - a bill to empower doctors and patients in their dealings with plans, eliminate a growing level of anti-competitive practices in health care, and help improve overall quality of patient care.

HR 1262: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of certain life insurance contract transactions. The bill establishes reporting requirements for acquisitions of life insurance contracts in a reportable policy sale. Specified details must be reported regarding: the payments, contracts, and people involved in the acquisition; the seller's basis; and payments of death benefits.

H.J. Res 66: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by states for non-governmental employees. (The rule describes circumstances in which state payroll deduction savings programs with automatic enrollment would not give rise to the establishment of employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. It provides guidance to states designing the programs to reduce the risk of ERISA preemption of state laws and private-sector employers that may be covered by the state laws.) H.J. Res 67: This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by qualified state political subdivisions for non-governmental employees. (The rule amends a final regulation that describes how states may design and operate payroll deduction savings programs for private-sector employees, including programs that use automatic enrollment, without causing the states or private-sector employers to have established employee pension benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ERISA]. The amendment expands the regulation beyond states to cover qualified state political subdivisions and their programs that otherwise comply with the regulation.) H.R.854 Retirement Security for American Workers Act: This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify the qualification requirements for certain multiple employer retirement plans. A multiple employer plan that meets certain criteria may not be disqualified or otherwise lose its tax-favored status because one or more participating employers fail to take actions required with respect to the plan. The bill applies to a multiple employer defined contribution plan or a plan that consists of Individual Retirement Accounts that either: (1) is sponsored by employers that both have a common interest other than having adopted the plan and control the plan, or (2) have a pooled plan provider. The bill does not apply unless the terms of the plan require a noncompliant employer to, subject to the discretion of the Internal Revenue Service, (1) transfer assets of the plan attributable to the employees of the noncompliant employer to other specified retirement plans, and (2) be liable for plan liabilities attributable to employees of the noncompliant employer. For the purposes of this bill, a defined contribution plan that is established or maintained for the purpose of providing benefits to the employees of two or more employers and that meets certain requirements (a pooled employer plan) is treated for the purposes of ERISA as a single plan that is a multiple employer plan. The bill modifies reporting requirements under ERISA that apply to pooled employer and multiple employer plans. H.R.1688 /S.695: This bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor to cooperate to modify specified returns required for deferred compensation plans and other employee benefit plans to permit all members of a group of plans to file a single aggregated annual return or report satisfying the requirements of both the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

S.1086 - International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2015: establishes at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues, a 21-member committee representing diverse expert perspectives from the U.S. insurance industry. H.R.2141 - International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015: bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures. H.R. 5143 - Transparent Insurance Standards Act of 2016: To provide greater transparency and congressional oversight of international insurance standards setting processes. H.R. 5485 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 - To express the importance of agreeing to domestic insurance capital standards before international standards are adopted.

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R.3323: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans. HR 3463: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25): Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. Implementation.

Trans Pacific Partnership: Financial Services chapter.

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090/S.2497: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. H.R. 2656/S.3417 Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act: To amend the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information. H.R.4293 - Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act: to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests H. R. 4294 -To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests. Strengthening Access to Valuable Education and Retirement Support Act of 2015 H.R. 4955 - Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2016 - to amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude the receipts and disbursements of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from the federal budget. S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution. S.2502: Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to define "investment advice," as it relates to fiduciary duties under such Act, as a recommendation that relates to: (1) the advisability of acquiring, holding, disposing, or exchanging any moneys or other property of a pension plan (or Individual Retirement Account) by the plan, plan participants, or plan beneficiaries, including any recommendation regarding whether to take a distribution of benefits from the plan or any recommendation relating to a rollover or distribution from such plan; (2) the management of moneys or other property of the plan, including recommendations relating to the management of plan assets to be rolled over or otherwise distributed from the plan; or (3) the advisability of retaining or ceasing to retain a person who would receive a fee or other compensation for providing investment advice. Investment advice must be rendered pursuant to either: (1) a written acknowledgment of the obligation of the investment advisor to act in accordance with fiduciary standards under ERISA; or (2) a mutual agreement, arrangement, or understanding that may include limitations on scope, timing, and responsibility to provide ongoing monitoring or advice services. The bill allows an exemption from ERISA prohibited transactions rules for investment advice: (1) for which no more than reasonable compensation is paid; or (2) that is based on a limited range of investment options or may result in variable income to the investment advisor if a clearly-stated notice is provided to the advice recipient that the same or similar investments may be available at a greater or lesser cost from other sources. The bill prohibits the Department of Labor from amending any rules or administrative positions regarding investment advice promulgated under ERISA and no such rules or administrative positions promulgated prior to the enactment date of this Act, but not effective on January 1, 2015, may become effective unless a bill or joint resolution specifically approving such rules or positions is enacted not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. S.3240: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2016 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. The Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016: included broad retirement-related benefits, such as enhancements to 401(k) plans, MEPs, a repeal of the maximum age for individual retirement account (IRA) contributions, and a start-up credit for small employer plans.

H.R.1430 -Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). H.R. 2315/S.386 - Prohibits the wages or other renumeration earned by an employee who performs employment duties in more than one state from being subject to income tax in any state other than: (1) the state of the employee's residence, and (2) the state within which the employee is present and performing employment duties for more than 30 days during the calendar year. Exempts employers from withholding of tax and information reporting requirements for employees not subject to income tax under this Act. Allows an employer, for purposes of determining penalties related to employer withholding or reporting requirements, to rely on an employee's annual determination of the time such employee will spend working in a state in the absence of fraud or collusion by such employee.

S.1086 - International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2015: establishes at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues, a 21-member committee representing diverse expert perspectives from the U.S. insurance industry. H.R.2141 - International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015: bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures. H.R. 5143 - Transparent Insurance Standards Act of 2016: To provide greater transparency and congressional oversight of international insurance standards setting processes. H.R. 5485 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 - To express the importance of agreeing to domestic insurance capital standards before international standards are adopted.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia. H.R.5983: Financial CHOICE Act of 2016 - Includes changes to FIO, the authorities of FSOC, establishes new notice, consultation and reporting requirements for federal regulators participating in the development of international capital standards.

H.R.1430 -Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). H.R. 2315/S.386 - Prohibits the wages or other renumeration earned by an employee who performs employment duties in more than one state from being subject to income tax in any state other than: (1) the state of the employee's residence, and (2) the state within which the employee is present and performing employment duties for more than 30 days during the calendar year. Exempts employers from withholding of tax and information reporting requirements for employees not subject to income tax under this Act. Allows an employer, for purposes of determining penalties related to employer withholding or reporting requirements, to rely on an employee's annual determination of the time such employee will spend working in a state in the absence of fraud or collusion by such employee.

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090/S.2497: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. H.R. 2656/S.3417 Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act: To amend the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information. H.R.4293 - Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act: to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests H. R. 4294 -To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests. Strengthening Access to Valuable Education and Retirement Support Act of 2015 H.R. 4955 - Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2016 - to amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude the receipts and disbursements of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from the federal budget. H.R. 5731 - Secure, Accessible, Valuable, Efficient Universal Pension Accounts (SAVE UPs) Act would universalize retirement savings accounts so every American worker would have an opportunity to generate tax-advantaged assets. H.R.6396 - Retirement Security for American Workers Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the qualification requirements with respect to certain multiple employer plans with pooled plan providers. S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution. S.2502: Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to define "investment advice," as it relates to fiduciary duties under such Act, as a recommendation that relates to: (1) the advisability of acquiring, holding, disposing, or exchanging any moneys or other property of a pension plan (or Individual Retirement Account) by the plan, plan participants, or plan beneficiaries, including any recommendation regarding whether to take a distribution of benefits from the plan or any recommendation relating to a rollover or distribution from such plan; (2) the management of moneys or other property of the plan, including recommendations relating to the management of plan assets to be rolled over or otherwise distributed from the plan; or (3) the advisability of retaining or ceasing to retain a person who would receive a fee or other compensation for providing investment advice. Investment advice must be rendered pursuant to either: (1) a written acknowledgment of the obligation of the investment advisor to act in accordance with fiduciary standards under ERISA; or (2) a mutual agreement, arrangement, or understanding that may include limitations on scope, timing, and responsibility to provide ongoing monitoring or advice services. The bill allows an exemption from ERISA prohibited transactions rules for investment advice: (1) for which no more than reasonable compensation is paid; or (2) that is based on a limited range of investment options or may result in variable income to the investment advisor if a clearly-stated notice is provided to the advice recipient that the same or similar investments may be available at a greater or lesser cost from other sources. The bill prohibits the Department of Labor from amending any rules or administrative positions regarding investment advice promulgated under ERISA and no such rules or administrative positions promulgated prior to the enactment date of this Act, but not effective on January 1, 2015, may become effective unless a bill or joint resolution specifically approving such rules or positions is enacted not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. S.3240: Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2016 - This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in the House or the Senate. The Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016: included broad retirement-related benefits, such as enhancements to 401(k) plans, MEPs, a repeal of the maximum age for individual retirement account (IRA) contributions, and a start-up credit for small employer plans.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25): Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. Implementation.

Trans Pacific Partnership: Financial Services chapter.

S.1086 - International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2015: establishes at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues, a 21-member committee representing diverse expert perspectives from the U.S. insurance industry. H.R.2141 - International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015: bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures. H.R. 5143 - Transparent Insurance Standards Act of 2016: To provide greater transparency and congressional oversight of international insurance standards setting processes. H.R. 5485 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 - To express the importance of agreeing to domestic insurance capital standards before international standards are adopted.

HR 9 - Innovation Act: raises the pleading requirements for the complaint in patent infringement cases. The complaint is supposed to tell the defendant what it is accused of, but theres a quirk that allows patent infringement complaints to be quite vague. The bill requires the identification of patent claims asserted, with details about the accused methods or acts, the principal business of the party alleging infringement, and the real parties of interest. Like the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, the bill also makes it possible to add any real party in interest to the litigation. S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: introduces heightened pleading standards for all civil actions in which a party alleges infringement (in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim), except in Hatch-Waxman and similar litigation under 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2).[8]

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia. H.R.5983: Financial CHOICE Act of 2016 - Includes changes to FIO, the authorities of FSOC, establishes new notice, consultation and reporting requirements for federal regulators participating in the development of international capital standards.

H.R.1430 -Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). H.R. 2315/S.386 - Prohibits the wages or other renumeration earned by an employee who performs employment duties in more than one state from being subject to income tax in any state other than: (1) the state of the employee's residence, and (2) the state within which the employee is present and performing employment duties for more than 30 days during the calendar year. Exempts employers from withholding of tax and information reporting requirements for employees not subject to income tax under this Act. Allows an employer, for purposes of determining penalties related to employer withholding or reporting requirements, to rely on an employee's annual determination of the time such employee will spend working in a state in the absence of fraud or collusion by such employee.

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R.3323: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans. HR 3463: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25): Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. Implementation.

S.1086 - International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2015: establishes at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues, a 21-member committee representing diverse expert perspectives from the U.S. insurance industry. H.R.2141 - International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015: bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures. H.R. 5143 - Transparent Insurance Standards Act of 2016: To provide greater transparency and congressional oversight of international insurance standards setting processes. H.R. 5485 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 - To express the importance of agreeing to domestic insurance capital standards before international standards are adopted.

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R.3323: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans. HR 3463: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25): Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. Implementation.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia.

Trans Pacific Partnership: Financial Services chapter.

HR 9 - Innovation Act: raises the pleading requirements for the complaint in patent infringement cases. The complaint is supposed to tell the defendant what it is accused of, but theres a quirk that allows patent infringement complaints to be quite vague. The bill requires the identification of patent claims asserted, with details about the accused methods or acts, the principal business of the party alleging infringement, and the real parties of interest. Like the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, the bill also makes it possible to add any real party in interest to the litigation. S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: introduces heightened pleading standards for all civil actions in which a party alleges infringement (in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim), except in Hatch-Waxman and similar litigation under 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2).[8]

H.R.1430 -Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R.3323: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans. HR 3463: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25): Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. Implementation.

Trans Pacific Partnership: Financial Services chapter.

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090/S.2497: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. H.R. 2656- Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act: To amend the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information. H.R.4293 - Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act: to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests H. R. 4294 -To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests. Strengthening Access to Valuable Education and Retirement Support Act of 2015 S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution. S.2502: Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to define "investment advice," as it relates to fiduciary duties under such Act, as a recommendation that relates to: (1) the advisability of acquiring, holding, disposing, or exchanging any moneys or other property of a pension plan (or Individual Retirement Account) by the plan, plan participants, or plan beneficiaries, including any recommendation regarding whether to take a distribution of benefits from the plan or any recommendation relating to a rollover or distribution from such plan; (2) the management of moneys or other property of the plan, including recommendations relating to the management of plan assets to be rolled over or otherwise distributed from the plan; or (3) the advisability of retaining or ceasing to retain a person who would receive a fee or other compensation for providing investment advice. Investment advice must be rendered pursuant to either: (1) a written acknowledgment of the obligation of the investment advisor to act in accordance with fiduciary standards under ERISA; or (2) a mutual agreement, arrangement, or understanding that may include limitations on scope, timing, and responsibility to provide ongoing monitoring or advice services. The bill allows an exemption from ERISA prohibited transactions rules for investment advice: (1) for which no more than reasonable compensation is paid; or (2) that is based on a limited range of investment options or may result in variable income to the investment advisor if a clearly-stated notice is provided to the advice recipient that the same or similar investments may be available at a greater or lesser cost from other sources. The bill prohibits the Department of Labor from amending any rules or administrative positions regarding investment advice promulgated under ERISA and no such rules or administrative positions promulgated prior to the enactment date of this Act, but not effective on January 1, 2015, may become effective unless a bill or joint resolution specifically approving such rules or positions is enacted not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia.

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R.3323: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans. HR 3463: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia.

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. H.R. 2656- Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act: To amend the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information. H.R.4293 - Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act: to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests H. R. 4294 -To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that retirement investors receive advice in their best interests. Strengthening Access to Valuable Education and Retirement Support Act of 2015 S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution.

Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25- Regulatory reform, tax reauthorization and cybersecurity information sharing. H.R. 719, a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through December 11, 2015. H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act - Pension premiums

HR 9 - Innovation Act: raises the pleading requirements for the complaint in patent infringement cases. The complaint is supposed to tell the defendant what it is accused of, but theres a quirk that allows patent infringement complaints to be quite vague. The bill requires the identification of patent claims asserted, with details about the accused methods or acts, the principal business of the party alleging infringement, and the real parties of interest. Like the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, the bill also makes it possible to add any real party in interest to the litigation. S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: introduces heightened pleading standards for all civil actions in which a party alleges infringement (in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim), except in Hatch-Waxman and similar litigation under 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2).[8]

S.1086 - International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2015: establishes at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues, a 21-member committee representing diverse expert perspectives from the U.S. insurance industry. H.R.2141 - International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015: bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures.

Trans Pacific Partnership: Financial Services chapter.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. S. 1484: to improve accountability and transparency in the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions. H.R.2995 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016: Provides FY2016 appropriations for agencies responsible for: regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings; overseeing the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, federal buildings, and the District of Columbia.

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. H.R. 2656- Receiving Electronic Statements To Improve Retiree Earnings Act: To amend the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information. S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution.

H.R. 3463 The Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act: would amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

HR 9 - Innovation Act: raises the pleading requirements for the complaint in patent infringement cases. The complaint is supposed to tell the defendant what it is accused of, but theres a quirk that allows patent infringement complaints to be quite vague. The bill requires the identification of patent claims asserted, with details about the accused methods or acts, the principal business of the party alleging infringement, and the real parties of interest. Like the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, the bill also makes it possible to add any real party in interest to the litigation. S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: introduces heightened pleading standards for all civil actions in which a party alleges infringement (in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim), except in Hatch-Waxman and similar litigation under 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2).[8]

HR 9 - Innovation Act: raises the pleading requirements for the complaint in patent infringement cases. The complaint is supposed to tell the defendant what it is accused of, but theres a quirk that allows patent infringement complaints to be quite vague. The bill requires the identification of patent claims asserted, with details about the accused methods or acts, the principal business of the party alleging infringement, and the real parties of interest. Like the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, the bill also makes it possible to add any real party in interest to the litigation. S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015: introduces heightened pleading standards for all civil actions in which a party alleges infringement (in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim), except in Hatch-Waxman and similar litigation under 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2).[8]

H.R.506: Automatic IRA Act of 2015- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. H.R.557: Retirement Security Act of 2015- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. H.R. 1090: Retail Investor Protection Act-Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from prescribing any regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) defining the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary until 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues a final rule governing standards of conduct for brokers and dealers under specified law. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the SEC from promulgating a rule establishing an investment advisor standard of conduct as the standard of conduct of brokers and dealers before it reports to certain congressional committees whether: (1) retail investors and other customers are being harmed due to brokers or dealers operating under different standards of conduct than those applicable to investment advisors under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) alternative remedies will reduce any confusion or harm to retail investors due to brokers or dealers operating under such different standards of conduct; (3) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact their commissions and the availability of proprietary products offered by brokers and dealers, as well as the ability of brokers and dealers to engage in principal transactions with customers; and (4) adoption of a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for brokers or dealers and investment advisors would adversely impact retail investor access to personalized, cost-effective investment advice and recommendations. Requires the SEC: (1) to publish in the Federal Register formal findings that such rule would reduce retail customer confusion or harm due to standards of conduct applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors; and (2) in proposing rules to consider the differences in the registration, supervision, and examination requirements applicable to brokers, dealers, and investment advisors. S.245-Automatic IRA Act of 2015Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualifying retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation; (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of their opportunity to participate in an automatic IRA arrangement and to provide participants with an annual statement setting forth payments, earnings, value, and other specified information; (3) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to an automatic IRA arrangement; (4) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement; and (5) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Establishes an Automatic IRA Advisory Group to make recommendations regarding automatic IRA investment options. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor to jointly conduct feasibility studies on: (1) extending spousal consent requirements to automatic IRA arrangements; (2) automatically transferring amounts saved by employees in retirement bonds into alternative, private sector, diversified investments when employees' automatic IRA balances reach a certain dollar level; (3) using investment data to notify individuals with multiple small balance retirement accounts of consolidation options; and (4) using investment arrangements associated with automatic IRAs to assist in addressing the problem of abandoned accounts. Directs the Secretaries to prescribe administrative guidance for the use of multiple employer plans by December 31, 2015. S.266 - Retirement Security Act of 2015-Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prescribe final regulations to permit employers to participate in multiple employer pension benefit plans, (2) promulgate regulations or other guidance to simplify and clarify rules relating to the timing of participant notices required under tax-preferred pension plans and the automatic escalation rules, and (3) modify the 1040EZ tax return form to allow taxpayers to claim the tax credit for retirement savings (saver's credit) on such form. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer pension benefit plans, to: (1) allow employers to maintain a tax-exempt multiple employer pension benefit plan even if the employers sponsoring the plan share no common interest, (2) modify requirements for secure deferral arrangements with respect to nondiscrimination and employer matching contributions, and (3) allow employers with not more than 100 employees a business-related tax credit to cover increased matching contributions required by this Act. S.324: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2015 or the SEAL Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer pension plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer pension plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six month period following a hardship distribution.

S. 606: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2013 - Amends the internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. DOL and SEC proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary.HR 2117: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal the 10% cap on the qualified percentage of an employee's compensation as the standard for an employer's contribution to an automatic cash or deferred contribution arrangement under the alternative method for meeting nondiscrimination requirements. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers and for other purposes. Also defines the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary. H.R.2171/S.1145: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act-Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the quarterly pension benefit statement furnished to a participant or beneficiary with the right to direct the investment of assets in his or her account under an individual account plan to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. H.R.5381/S.2855: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to nondiscrimination requirements for tax-exempt employee pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans, to include protections for older, longer service participants in such plans, including the grandfathering of such participants under defined benefit plans. S. 1270: SAFE Retirement Act-A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for reform of public and private pension plans. S. 1970: Retirement Security act of 2013-provides enhancements to the existing defined contributions system and multiple employer plans. S.1979: USA Retirement Funds Act-A bill that proposes the creation of a new type of private-run retirement plan that combines attributes of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

HR 1564/S.1526 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

HR1798: Dental Insurance Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 2013 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value requirements for dental benefits under self-insured group health plans. HR.3120/S.1522: Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover dental services.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.H.CON.RES.96: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R. 83, the "Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015," which provides fiscal year 2015 full-year appropriations through September 30, 2015 for all agencies except the Department of Homeland Security, for which appropriations are provided instead through February 27, 2015. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 4429: Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the subpart F foreign personal holding company income exemption for income that is derived in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business, as a securities dealer, or in the conduct of an insurance business. H.R. 4464: Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). H.R.5771 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions and make technical corrections, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. S. 2260: Expiring Provisions Improvement, Reform, and Efficiency Act of 2014 or the EXPIRE Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 expiring tax provisions pertaining to individual and business taxpayers and the energy sector. HR 647/S 313: Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2013 or the ABLE Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt ABLE accounts to assist an individual with a disability in building an account to pay for qualified disability expenses. No. bill #: The Preserving Americas Transit and Highways Act-Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R.5021: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014: Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products

U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) TransPacific Partnership, Trade Promotion Authority, Bi-lateral agreements

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.H.CON.RES.96: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 4429: Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the subpart F foreign personal holding company income exemption for income that is derived in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business, as a securities dealer, or in the conduct of an insurance business. H.R. 4464: Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. S. 2260: Expiring Provisions Improvement, Reform, and Efficiency Act of 2014 or the EXPIRE Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 expiring tax provisions pertaining to individual and business taxpayers and the energy sector. HR 647/S 313: Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2013 or the ABLE Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt ABLE accounts to assist an individual with a disability in building an account to pay for qualified disability expenses. No. bill #: The Preserving Americas Transit and Highways Act-Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R.5021: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014: Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products

U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) TransPacific Partnership, Trade Promotion Authority, Bi-lateral agreements

HR1798: Dental Insurance Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 2013 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value requirements for dental benefits under self-insured group health plans. HR.3120/S.1522: Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover dental services.

HR 1155: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions.HR 508: TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 1945: Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such n act by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in concurrence with the Secretary of the Treasury (currently, by the Secretary of the Treasury in concurrence with the Secretary of State). Extends the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2024 (under current law, the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 2140: Insurance Capital and Accounting Standards Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and the Home Owners' loan Act to make minimum leverage and risk-based capital requirements governing insurance companies under the state law also apply to insurance companies that are either depository holding companies or subsidiaries of depository holding companies. HR 2146: Terrorism Risk insurance program Reauthoriation Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk insurance Act of 2002 to extend from December 31, 2014, through December 31, 2024, the Terrorism Risk insurance program. Extends to September 30, 2027, the deadline by which the Secretary of the Treasury is required to collect all mandatory premiums for any act of terrorism occuring on or after January 1, 2012. HR 4510: Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. H.R. 5623 Living Donor Protection Act: the bill is designed to "to promote organ donation and protect the rights of living organ donors" by prohibiting life, disability and long term care companies from denying coverage, limiting coverage or charging higher premiums for organ donors. S 534: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions. S1369: Additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of the business of insurance. S.1926: A bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to reform the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, and for other purposes. S.2102: A bill to clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. S.2270: Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. H.R.5461: To clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to improve upon the definitions provided for points and fees in connection with a mortgage transaction

HR 1564/S.1526 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

HR1798: Dental Insurance Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 2013 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value requirements for dental benefits under self-insured group health plans. HR.3120/S.1522: Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover dental services.

S. 606: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2013 - Amends the internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. DOL and SEC proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary.HR 2117: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal the 10% cap on the qualified percentage of an employee's compensation as the standard for an employer's contribution to an automatic cash or deferred contribution arrangement under the alternative method for meeting nondiscrimination requirements. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers and for other purposes. Also defines the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary. H.R.2171/S.1145: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act-Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the quarterly pension benefit statement furnished to a participant or beneficiary with the right to direct the investment of assets in his or her account under an individual account plan to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1270: SAFE Retirement Act-A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for reform of public and private pension plans. S. 1970: Retiremetn Security Act-Retirement Security act of 2013-provides enhancements to the existing defined contributions system and multiple employer plans. S.1979: USA Retirement Funds Act-A bill that proposes the creation of a new type of private-run retirement plan that combines attributes of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.H.CON.RES.96: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 4429: Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the subpart F foreign personal holding company income exemption for income that is derived in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business, as a securities dealer, or in the conduct of an insurance business. H.R. 4464: Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income). H.R.5021: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014: Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. S. 2260: Expiring Provisions Improvement, Reform, and Efficiency Act of 2014 or the EXPIRE Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 expiring tax provisions pertaining to individual and business taxpayers and the energy sector. No. bill #: The Preserving Americas Transit and Highways Act-Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products.

HR 1564/S.1526 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) TransPacific Partnership, Trade Promotion Authority, Bi-lateral agreements

HR 1155: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions.HR 508: TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 1945: Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such n act by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in concurrence with the Secretary of the Treasury (currently, by the Secretary of the Treasury in concurrence with the Secretary of State). Extends the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2024 (under current law, the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 2140: Insurance Capital and Accounting Standards Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and the Home Owners' loan Act to make minimum leverage and risk-based capital requirements governing insurance companies under the state law also apply to insurance companies that are either depository holding companies or subsidiaries of depository holding companies. HR 2146: Terrorism Risk insurance program Reauthoriation Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk insurance Act of 2002 to extend from December 31, 2014, through December 31, 2024, the Terrorism Risk insurance program. Extends to September 30, 2027, the deadline by which the Secretary of the Treasury is required to collect all mandatory premiums for any act of terrorism occuring on or after January 1, 2012. HR 4510: Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. S 534: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions. S1369: Additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of the business of insurance. S.1926: A bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to reform the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, and for other purposes. S.2102: A bill to clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. S.2270 Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

S. 606: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2013 - Amends the internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. DOL and SEC proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary.HR 2117: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal the 10% cap on the qualified percentage of an employee's compensation as the standard for an employer's contribution to an automatic cash or deferred contribution arrangement under the alternative method for meeting nondiscrimination requirements. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers and for other purposes. Also defines the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary. H.R.2171/S.1145: Lifetime Income Disclosure Act-Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the quarterly pension benefit statement furnished to a participant or beneficiary with the right to direct the investment of assets in his or her account under an individual account plan to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. S. 1270: SAFE Retirement Act-A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for reform of public and private pension plans. S. 1970: Retiremetn Security Act-Retirement Security act of 2013-provides enhancements to the existing defined contributions system and multiple employer plans. S.1979: USA Retirement Funds Act-A bill that proposes the creation of a new type of private-run retirement plan that combines attributes of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

HR 1564/S.1526 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list.

U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) TransPacific Partnership, Trade Promotion Authority

H.CON.RES.25: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. S.CON.RES.8: FY2014 Senate budget resolution. Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implications for retirement and life insurance products.S. J Res 59: Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products.

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list.

HR1798: Dental Insurance Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 2013 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value requirements for dental benefits under self-insured group health plans.

HR 1155: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions.S 534: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions. HR 508: TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014). S1369: Additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of the business of insurance. HR 1945: Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such n act by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in concurrence with the Secretary of the Treasury (currently, by the Secretary of the Treasury in concurrence with the Secretary of State). Extends the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2024 (under current law, the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 2140: Insurance Capital and Accounting Standards Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and the Home Owners' loan Act to make minimum leverage and risk-based capital requirements governing insurance companies under the state law also apply to insurance companies that are either depository holding companies or subsidiaries of depository holding companies. HR 2146: Terrorism Risk insurance program Reauthoriation Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk insurance Act of 2002 to extend from December 31, 2014, through December 31, 2024, the Terrorism Risk insurance program. Extends to September 30, 2027, the deadline by which the Secretary of the Treasury is required to collect all mandatory premiums for any act of terrorism occuring on or after January 1, 2012.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

HR 1564/S.1526 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

HR 1155: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions.S 534: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Reestablishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as a nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions. HR 508: TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014). S1369: Additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of the business of insurance. HR 1945: Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of an "act of terrorism" to mean any act that is certified as meeting the specified criteria for such n act by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in concurrence with the Secretary of the Treasury (currently, by the Secretary of the Treasury in concurrence with the Secretary of State). Extends the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2024 (under current law, the Program expires on December 31, 2014). HR 2140: Insurance Capital and Accounting Standards Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and the Home Owners' loan Act to make minimum leverage and risk-based capital requirements governing insurance companies under the state law also apply to insurance companies that are either depository holding companies or subsidiaries of depository holding companies. HR 2146: Terrorism Risk insurance program Reauthoriation Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk insurance Act of 2002 to extend from December 31, 2014, through December 31, 2024, the Terrorism Risk insurance program. Extends to September 30, 2027, the deadline by which the Secretary of the Treasury is required to collect all mandatory premiums for any act of terrorism occuring on or after January 1, 2012.

U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue - No bill attached

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.S. 676 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list. H.R. 2720 prevent identity theft and tax fraud by ending the required publication of the DMF list.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

H.CON.RES.25: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. S.CON.RES.8: FY2014 Senate budget resolution. Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implications for retirement and life insurance products.

HR 1564 Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX standards be conducted by specific auditors, or that such audits be conducted for an issuer by different auditors on a rotating basis.

H.CON.RES.25: Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implication for retirement and life insurance products. S.CON.RES.8: FY2014 Senate budget resolution. Sets forth the Congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015 - FY2023. Tax implications for retirement and life insurance products.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. HR 634: Business Risk mitigation and Price-Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation marginrequirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties: (1) is eligible for an exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); or (2) satisfies specified criteria governing treatment of affiliates in connection with clearing requirements. HR 992: To amend provisions in Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection At relating to Federal assistance for swap entities. HR 1003: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise the requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, consider the costs and benefits of the action. Requires the CFTC, through the Office of the Chief Economist, to: (1) assess the costs and benefits, both qualitative and quantitative, of an intended regulation; and (2) propose or adopt a regulation only on a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs. HR 1256: Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers, and for other purposes.

S. 606: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2013 - Amends the internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. DOL and SEC proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary.HR 2374: Retail Investor Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections for retail customers and for other purposes. Also defines the circumstances under which an individual is considered a fiduciary.

Comprehensive Taxation reform - No bill attached.

U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue - No bill attached

S.606: Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. DOL and SEC proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary.

Capital Requirements (Basel III)-No bill attached HR 508: TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program until December 31, 2019 (under current law the Program expires on December 31, 2014).

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. No bill number - A bill to require a Federal Regulator for insurance. HR 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 Amendment to repeal of McCarran-Ferguson.

S174, to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the nation's health care system toward prevention, wellness, and health promotion. HR.1809: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure health care coverage value and transparency for dental benefits under group health plans.

China market access S.1619: Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011-allows the U.S. government to slap countervailing duties on products from countries found to be subsidizing their exports by undervaluing their currencies U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and 21st U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce And Trade

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates. The first notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR), titled Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Implementation of Basel III, Minimum Regulatory Capital Ratios, Capital Adequacy, and Transition Provisions: increase the quantity and quality of capital required by proposing a new minimum common equity tier 1 ratio of 4.5 percent of risk-weighted assets and a common equity tier 1 capital conservation buffer of 2.5 percent of risk-weighted assets, and raising the minimum tier 1 capital ratio from 4 percent to 6 percent of risk-weighted assets; revise the definition of capital to improve the ability of regulatory capital instruments to absorb losses; establish limitations on capital distributions and certain discretionary bonus payments if additional specified amounts, or "buffers," of common equity tier 1 capital are not met; and introduce a supplementary leverage ratio for internationally active banking organizations.

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary, and FAB that include Q&A30 relating to brokerage windonws HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue. S.CON.RES.62: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs H.R.4624: Investment Adviser Oversight Act of 2012 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require investment advisers to register with a registered national investment adviser association, unless exempted according to specified criteria. S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. No bill number - A bill to require a Federal Regulator for insurance. HR 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 Amendment to repeal of McCarran-Ferguson.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs H.R.4624: Investment Adviser Oversight Act of 2012 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require investment advisers to register with a registered national investment adviser association, unless exempted according to specified criteria. S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary, and FAB that include Q&A30 relating to brokerage windonws HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates. The first notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR), titled Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Implementation of Basel III, Minimum Regulatory Capital Ratios, Capital Adequacy, and Transition Provisions: increase the quantity and quality of capital required by proposing a new minimum common equity tier 1 ratio of 4.5 percent of risk-weighted assets and a common equity tier 1 capital conservation buffer of 2.5 percent of risk-weighted assets, and raising the minimum tier 1 capital ratio from 4 percent to 6 percent of risk-weighted assets; revise the definition of capital to improve the ability of regulatory capital instruments to absorb losses; establish limitations on capital distributions and certain discretionary bonus payments if additional specified amounts, or "buffers," of common equity tier 1 capital are not met; and introduce a supplementary leverage ratio for internationally active banking organizations.

China market access S.1619: Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011-allows the U.S. government to slap countervailing duties on products from countries found to be subsidizing their exports by undervaluing their currencies U.S.China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and 21st U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce And Trade

S.85, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the maximum rate of tax on the income of corporations to 20 percent. S.107, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income HR749 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income. HR1151- Emergency Mortgage Relief and Neighborhood Stabilization Programs Cost Recoupment Act of 2011 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to offset the costs of assistance under the Emergency Mortgage Relief and Neighborhood Stabilization Programs, to make risk-based assessments in the total amount of $2.5 billion on financial companies: (1) that manage hedge funds with $10 billion or more in assets under management on a consolidated basis; or (2) with $50 billion or more in total consolidated assets. HR 1601 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend certain expiring provisions. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - the bill would alter the reporting requirements associated with the life settlements. President's proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2013 - tax issues related to life insurance and retirement.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. No bill number - A bill to require a Federal Regulator for insurance. HR 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 Amendment to repeal of McCarran-Ferguson.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates.

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary, and FAB that include Q&A30 relating to brokerage windonws HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. No bill number - A bill to require a Federal Regulator for insurance. HR 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 Amendment to repeal of McCarran-Ferguson. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - the bill would alter the reporting requirements associated with the life settlements.

S.85, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the maximum rate of tax on the income of corporations to 20 percent. S.107, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income HR749 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income. HR1151- Emergency Mortgage Relief and Neighborhood Stabilization Programs Cost Recoupment Act of 2011 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to offset the costs of assistance under the Emergency Mortgage Relief and Neighborhood Stabilization Programs, to make risk-based assessments in the total amount of $2.5 billion on financial companies: (1) that manage hedge funds with $10 billion or more in assets under management on a consolidated basis; or (2) with $50 billion or more in total consolidated assets. President's proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2012 - tax issues related to life insurance and retirement. HR 1601 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend certain expiring provisions.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S.799 Kerry-Mccain privacy bill-A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission. S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates.

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary. HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S. 1121: Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage in 401(k) Savings Act of 2011 or the SEAL 401(k) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. S. 1232: a bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue. S.2252: Rebuild America Act -- to rebuild the American middle class by creating jobs, investing in our future, building opportunity for working families, and restoring balance to the tax code.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S.799 Kerry-Mccain privacy bill-A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission. S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

S174, to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the nation's health care system toward prevention, wellness, and health promotion. HR.1809: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure health care coverage value and transparency for dental benefits under group health plans.

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary. HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S. 1121: Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage in 401(k) Savings Act of 2011 or the SEAL 401(k) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. S. 1232: a bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue. S.2252: Rebuild America Act -- to rebuild the American middle class by creating jobs, investing in our future, building opportunity for working families, and restoring balance to the tax code.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S.799 Kerry-Mccain privacy bill-A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission. S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. No bill number - A bill to require a Federal Regulator for insurance. HR 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 Amendment to repeal of McCarran-Ferguson. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - the bill would alter the reporting requirements associated with the life settlements.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

Dodd-Frank Act Implementation Tax reform

Dodd-Frank Act Implementation Tax reform

HR 677/S267- would require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participating workers of the projected monthly income they could expect at retirement based on their current account balance. DOL proposed rules to amend the definition of fiduciary. HR. 1534: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to: (1) repeal certain restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs, (2) allow employers to elect to terminate qualified salary reduction arrangements at any time during the year, (3) repeal the enhanced 25% penalty on premature withdrawals made from simple IRAs within the first two plan years, (4) allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs, (5) establish automatic deferral IRAs, (6) allow a transfer of unused balances in flexible spending arrangements to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan, (7) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs, and (8) establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions H.R.4049: Automatic IRA Act of 2012 - would require all employers that employ more than 10 employees, who do not sponsor a qualified retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees at 3% of pay into a payroll deduct IRA. H.R.4050: Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2012 the bill would permit all required ERISA disclosures to be made available in an electronic manner (following advanced notice and with the right to opt out). H.CON.RES.101 : Expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement. S. 1020: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to loans made from a qualified employer plan. S. 1121: Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage in 401(k) Savings Act of 2011 or the SEAL 401(k) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit plans from allowing the use of credit cards or similar arrangements to access loan amounts. S. 1232: a bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans. S.1557 the Automatic IRA Act of 2011 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers who do not maintain qualified retirement plans or arrangements to make available to their eligible employees a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRA arrangement) which grants such employees the right to opt-out of participation, (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide employers with a model notice for notifying employees of automatic IRS arrangements and to establish a program to assist employers in the implementation of such arrangements, (3) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing an automatic IRA arrangement, (4) impose a penalty on employers who fail to provide eligible employees access to automatic IRA arrangements, and (5) increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs. S. 1813: Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012 - defined benefit plan Funding Stabilization proposal which generates $9.5 billion in revenue. S.2252: Rebuild America Act -- to rebuild the American middle class by creating jobs, investing in our future, building opportunity for working families, and restoring balance to the tax code.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R.1610: To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. H.R. 1223 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to ensure mortgages held or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and asset-backed securities issued by such enterprises are treated similarly as other mortgages and asset-backed securities for purposes of the credit risk retention requirements under such Act. HR 2682: Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements for certain significant price discovery agreements, contracts, or transactions in a commodity exempt from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, to exempt from initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization any security-based swap in which one of the counterparties is: (1) not a financial entity, and (2) is eligible for exception from clearing requirements. H.R. 3283: clarifies Dodd-Frank Act provisions to ensure the equal treatment of U.S. firms conducting transactions outside of the U.S. and foreign firms conducting similar activities. H.R. 4235: repeals the Dodd-Frank Act indemnification requirements for regulators to obtain data from SDRs S. 947 To provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 S.799 Kerry-Mccain privacy bill-A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission. S1615: Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act-Requires financial regulators to conduct consistent economic analysis on every new rule they propose, provide clear justification for the rules, and determine the economic impacts of proposed rulemakings, including their effects on growth and net job creation. HR940, S.1835: United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds) that provides for such bonds to be maintained in a manner consistent with safe and sound asset-liability management and other financial practices.

S. 23/HR 1249: would amend the law that governs how the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awards patents: to alter the rule that prioritizes the award of a patent from the first to invent to the first inventor to file. and would establish new review procedures that would allow individuals to challenge the validity of a patent.

S174, to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the nation's health care system toward prevention, wellness, and health promotion. HR.1809: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure health care coverage value and transparency for dental benefits under group health plans.

Public Law 111-203, HR 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act implementation and regulatory reform. H.R. 1573: To facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption. S. 2223 provides for the implementation of the Volcker Rule after the agencies have issued their final rules rather than two years after the date Dodd-Frank was signed into law. This is accomplished by a two-word amendment which would change the effective date from earlier of to later of between these two dates.