117 HR 2954 IH: Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021
U.S. House of Representatives
2021-05-04
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1.Short title; table of contents(a)This Act may be cited as the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021
.(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.Title I—Expanding Coverage and Increasing Retirement SavingsSec. 101. Expanding automatic enrollment in retirement plans.Sec. 102. Modification of credit for small employer pension plan startup costs.Sec. 103. Promotion of Saver’s Credit.Sec. 104. Enhancement of 403(b) plans.Sec. 105. Increase in age for required beginning date for mandatory distributions.Sec. 106. Indexing IRA catch-up limit.Sec. 107. Higher catch-up limit to apply at age 62, 63, and 64.Sec. 108. Multiple employer 403(b) plans.Sec. 109. Treatment of student loan payments as elective deferrals for purposes of matching contributions.Sec. 110. Application of credit for small employer pension plan startup costs to employers which join an existing plan.Sec. 111. Military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit for small employers.Sec. 112. Small immediate financial incentives for contributing to a plan.Sec. 113. Safe harbor for corrections of employee elective deferral failures.Sec. 114. One-year reduction in period of service requirement for long-term, part-time workers.Sec. 115. Findings relating to S corporation ESOPs.Title II—Preservation of IncomeSec. 201. Remove required minimum distribution barriers for life annuities.Sec. 202. Qualifying longevity annuity contracts.Sec. 203. Insurance-dedicated exchange-traded funds.Title III—Simplification and Clarification of Retirement Plan RulesSec. 301. Recovery of retirement plan overpayments.Sec. 302. Reduction in excise tax on certain accumulations in qualified retirement plans.Sec. 303. Performance benchmarks for asset allocation funds.Sec. 304. Review and report to the Congress relating to reporting and disclosure requirements.Sec. 305. Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants.Sec. 306. Retirement savings lost and found.Sec. 307. Expansion of Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System.Sec. 308. Eliminate the first day of the month
requirement for governmental section 457(b) plans.Sec. 309. One-time election for qualified charitable distribution to split-interest entity; increase in qualified charitable distribution limitation.Sec. 310. Distributions to firefighters.Sec. 311. Exclusion of certain disability-related first responder retirement payments.Sec. 312. Individual retirement plan statute of limitations for excise tax on excess contributions and certain accumulations.Sec. 313. Requirement to provide paper statements in certain cases.Sec. 314. Separate application of top heavy rules to defined contribution plans covering excludible employees.Sec. 315. Repayment of qualified birth or adoption distribution limited to 3 years.Sec. 316. Employer may rely on employee certifying that deemed hardship distribution conditions are met.Sec. 317. Penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans for individuals in case of domestic abuse.Sec. 318. Reform of family attribution rule.Sec. 319. Amendments to increase benefit accruals under plan for previous plan year allowed until employer tax return due date.Sec. 320. Retroactive first year elective deferrals for sole proprietors.Sec. 321. Limiting cessation of IRA treatment to portion of account involved in a prohibited transaction.Title IV—Technical AmendmentsSec. 401. Amendments relating to Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019.Title V—Administrative ProvisionsSec. 501. Provisions relating to plan amendments.Title VI—Revenue ProvisionsSec. 601. Simple and SEP Roth IRAs.Sec. 602. Hardship withdrawal rules for 403(b) plans.Sec. 603. Elective deferrals generally limited to regular contribution limit.Sec. 604. Optional treatment of employer matching contributions as Roth contributions.<enum>I</enum><header>Expanding Coverage and Increasing Retirement Savings</header><section id="HAA1F028143A941B29D40BB3FD6F718B3"><enum>101.</enum><header>Expanding automatic enrollment in retirement plans</header><subsection id="H9AF01138B30846E3B3C8A5E9CBC2ADE7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subpart B of part I of subchapter D of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 414 the following new section:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H98C4D2925AEC43B1A4685FE66BC4DDAE" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="H48BCCF3ECB614915A8A1A5A1AD4FB4A5"><enum>414A.</enum><header>Requirements related to automatic enrollment</header><subsection id="H1B2D8AA9AE3C4999916022707A9366FD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in this section—</text><paragraph id="HAE7F62C9C86A4D36877FFA6EF34E7899"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an arrangement shall not be treated as a qualified cash or deferred arrangement described in section 401(k) unless such arrangement meets the automatic enrollment requirements of subsection (b), and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB92A0ED3B82B4236957B8C936228784E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an annuity contract otherwise described in section 403(b)(1) which is purchased under a salary reduction agreement shall not be treated as described in such section unless such agreement meets the automatic enrollment requirements of subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDB279D4D4DE842D3BEF4139B69ADAD04"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Automatic enrollment requirements</header><paragraph id="H6DCEE627C88F4B438CE29BE848021AA0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An arrangement or agreement meets the requirements of this subsection if such arrangement or agreement is an eligible automatic contribution arrangement (as defined in section 414(w)(3)) which meets the requirements of paragraphs (2) through (4).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HBA8E148D4E2E470E9A189A455B8AA838"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allowance of permissible withdrawals</header><text>An eligible automatic contribution arrangement meets the requirements of this paragraph if such arrangement allows employees to make permissible withdrawals (as defined in section 414(w)(2)).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB97E6B99403E4E00937FCB2EE1FE78AE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Minimum contribution percentage</header><subparagraph id="HC8511DCB8B36420A942787B9FF12BD1C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An eligible automatic contribution arrangement meets the requirements of this paragraph if—</text><clause id="H5A010FC387A247EEA0B4DB341552D2AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the uniform percentage of compensation contributed by the participant under such arrangement during the first year of participation is not less than 3 percent and not more than 10 percent (unless the participant specifically elects not to have such contributions made or to have such contributions made at a different percentage), and</text></clause><clause id="HA0EABFB1D85A49CD85743E35D954D19D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">effective for the first day of each plan year starting after each completed year of participation under such arrangement such uniform percentage is increased by 1 percentage point (to at least 10 percent, but not more than 15 percent) unless the participant specifically elects not to have such contributions made or to have such contributions made at a different percentage.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1A9D72C80372490DBCFD05FD934045B0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Initial reduced ceiling for certain plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any arrangement to which this section applies (other than an arrangement that meets the requirements of paragraph (12) or (13) of section 401(k)), for plan years ending before January 1, 2025, subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be applied by substituting <quote>10 percent</quote> for <quote>15 percent</quote>. </text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8FB2740A23694D68A1AF97AFCCDE3195"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Investment requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible automatic contribution arrangement meets the requirements of this paragraph if amounts contributed pursuant to such arrangement, and for which no investment is elected by the participant, are invested consistent with the requirements of section 2550.404c–5 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H28097B9E6BCB469FB759AEE96567183C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text><paragraph id="H1350ED7D38774C388E63FDA6520FD855"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Simple plans</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to any simple plan (within the meaning of section 401(k)(11)).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9C2BFDFE33414480894960796BB14FA4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception for plans or arrangements established before enactment of section</header><subparagraph id="HD6C9B8D5CAC14AA190ECB477019F058F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to—</text><clause id="HC623D6A9569E4310B50ECB6205914AEB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any qualified cash or deferred arrangement established before the date of the enactment of this section, or</text></clause><clause id="H0ACF713FB7EB4A5BB24D652D5CB1F63C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any annuity contract purchased under a plan established before the date of the enactment of this section.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAE95B6862981409F9C0FA5B2D0B3CF05"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Post-enactment adoption of multiple employer plan</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply in the case of an employer adopting after such date of enactment a plan maintained by more than one employer, and subsection (a) shall apply with respect to such employer as if such plan were a single plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H70C06EB975614447BA5C5078D28472D3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exception for governmental and church plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall not apply to any governmental plan (within the meaning of section 414(d)) or any church plan (within the meaning of section 414(e)).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HCB508519AACC4C1E9F7AD87E12C66E64"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Exception for new and small businesses</header><subparagraph id="H1BEA7F4B6C5948358DC022A8FD153B92"><enum>(A)</enum><header>New business</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to any qualified cash or deferred arrangement, or any annuity contract purchased under a plan, while the employer maintaining such plan (and any predecessor employer) has been in existence for less than 3 years.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE7CBED2C5E9045DC8A1B0EB605FFDA11"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Small businesses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall not apply to any qualified cash or deferred arrangement, any annuity contract purchased under a plan, earlier than the date that is 1 year after the close of the first taxable year with respect to which the employer maintaining the plan normally employed more than 10 employees.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC8DE89D465EB41D980BB19A8952B792F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Treatment of multiple employer plans</header><text>In the case of a plan maintained by more than 1 employer, subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be applied separately with respect to each such employer, and all such employers to which subsection (a) applies (after the application of this paragraph) shall be treated as maintaining a separate plan for purposes of this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HC48FDB4C5A464F83A48D2B60200E3431"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for subpart B of part I of subchapter D of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 414 the following new item:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H0CD85D6020CF41D8A23F6543E0185BEA" display-inline="no-display-inline"><toc container-level="quoted-block-container" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" lowest-level="section" idref="H98C4D2925AEC43B1A4685FE66BC4DDAE" regeneration="yes-regeneration" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded"><toc-entry idref="H48BCCF3ECB614915A8A1A5A1AD4FB4A5" level="section">Sec. 414A. Requirements related to automatic enrollment.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HA90CAA17A59E415092CFB3380414DC3B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection></section><section id="H4228E3E346064063BC7CA61FB91247F2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header>Modification of credit for small employer pension plan startup costs</header><subsection id="H9378CA11B4D745DE935955E4A60DAAFF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Increase in credit percentage for smaller employers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/45E">Section 45E(e)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF6CF343594714FB59AF2EFB01BCC8077" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H4AA5D7C21B4441BAB8918B2E79790678"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Increased credit for certain small employers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an employer which would be an eligible employer under subsection (c) if section 408(p)(2)(C)(i) was applied by substituting <quote>50 employees</quote> for <quote>100 employees</quote>, subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting <quote>100 percent</quote> for <quote>50 percent</quote>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HD1BCD7CA9524465EBDB07352BADC84C0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional credit for employer contributions by certain small employers</header><text>Section 45E of such Code, as amended by subsection (a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H40DF1E832A0142968FD3030379C4B1D4" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="HABE360A78BC4406892B2B0BA65FBD5A8"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Additional credit for employer contributions by certain eligible employers</header><paragraph id="HBFC5BA11AF5542C9A42CB26749541B75"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an eligible employer, the credit allowed for the taxable year under subsection (a) (determined without regard to this subsection) shall be increased by an amount equal to the applicable percentage of employer contributions (other than any elective deferrals (as defined in section 402(g)(3))) by the employer to an eligible employer plan (other than a defined benefit plan (as defined in section 414(j))).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H314D2329F5B24D59B1E9F08EFBE4FEFF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitations</header><subparagraph id="H24C862A0F6BF4D5C9A7FCF40AB6555D2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Dollar limitation</header><text>The amount determined under paragraph (1) (before the application of subparagraph (B)) with respect to any employee of the employer shall not exceed $1,000.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAA4C9A378A39403B97ECF752EB76D25D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Credit phase-in</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any eligible employer which had for the preceding taxable year more than 50 employees, the amount determined under paragraph (1) (without regard to this subparagraph) shall be reduced by an amount equal to the product of—</text><clause id="H0E08A644903943518DE3FAB7548EB798"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amount otherwise so determined under paragraph (1), multiplied by</text></clause><clause id="HACD7C14BB506494FA8B4F91DDB8A6586"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a percentage equal to 2 percentage points for each employee of the employer for the preceding taxable year in excess of 50 employees.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEB466FB9FB2B4DAC9F33E79438CE001C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Applicable percentage</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the applicable percentage for the taxable year during which the eligible employer plan is established with respect to the eligible employer shall be 100 percent, and for taxable years thereafter shall be determined under the following table:</text><table table-type="Leaderwork" table-template-name="Tax (No Calculation) 1 text, 1 num (9 chars) and extra long heads" align-to-level="section" frame="none" colsep="0" rowsep="0" line-rules="no-gen" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec colname="column1" coldef="txt" min-data-value="55" colwidth="275pts"></colspec><colspec colname="column2" align="justify" coldef="fig" min-data-value="9" colwidth="50pts"></colspec><thead><row><entry namest="column1" morerows="0" align="left" colname="column1"><bold>In the case of the following taxable year beginning after the taxable year during which plan is established with respect to the eligible employer: </bold></entry><entry namest="column2" morerows="0" align="justify" colname="column2"><bold>The applicable percentage shall be: </bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" colname="column1">1st</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="right" colname="column2">100%</entry></row><row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" colname="column1">2nd</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="right" colname="column2">75%</entry></row><row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" colname="column1">3rd</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="right" colname="column2">50%</entry></row><row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" colname="column1">4th</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="right" colname="column2">25%</entry></row><row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" colname="column1">Any taxable year thereafter</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="right" colname="column2">0%</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></paragraph><paragraph id="HEC923E8E96974ED88DE188586B6CB5BE"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Determination of eligible employer; number of employees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subsection, whether an employer is an eligible employer and the number of employees of an employer shall be determined under the rules of subsection (c), except that paragraph (2) thereof shall only apply to the taxable year during which the eligible employer plan to which this section applies is established with respect to the eligible employer.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H341A65CC13F646E09F126DE547491CC3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Disallowance of deduction</header><text>Section 45E(e)(2) of such Code is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H4CE4E8342F014BBD9D5F59EFF6A497BB" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H507DA1471C7246C682A253AAF3F02EE1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Disallowance of deduction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No deduction shall be allowed—</text><subparagraph id="HF77B01EE919E49F88E6B3084C389C021"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for that portion of the qualified startup costs paid or incurred for the taxable year which is equal to so much of the portion of the credit determined under subsection (a) as is properly allocable to such costs, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H473A27666B0244F19069D6794505A514"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for that portion of the employer contributions by the employer for the taxable year which is equal to so much of the credit increase determined under subsection (f) as is properly allocable to such contributions.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HA2A16DEC75724B7288374328E6E17AA1"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H508FF66AB5CB4F6CA5DAA4942260EA35"><enum>103.</enum><header>Promotion of Saver’s Credit</header><subsection id="HE7263255C1034F7F8D6CC608C1FD9953"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall take such steps as the Secretary determines are necessary and appropriate to increase public awareness of the credit provided under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/25B">section 25B</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></subsection><subsection id="H2BF716E2AE664B769A0C694D3EE2753F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><paragraph id="HA6D65D3E2A214F4189B2071FAD01FBB0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide a report to Congress to summarize the anticipated promotion efforts of the Treasury under subsection (a).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF6F63F65550F48AAB8967CC4AAB0203F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such report shall include—</text><subparagraph id="H9EAD4F8232314A71B946BE7F0CD1BF92"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a description of plans for—</text><clause id="HD69350FD874949739B38BA56BE81FC13"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development and distribution of digital and print materials, including the distribution of such materials to States for participants in State facilitated retirement savings programs, and</text></clause><clause id="H1B7975549A2D482FAF35FCD750C3B348"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the translation of such materials into the 10 most commonly spoken languages in the United States after English (as determined by reference to the most recent American Community Survey of the Bureau of the Census), and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9EC13A8A1E264706AA46110278E7BE06"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such other information as the Secretary determines is necessary.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H71A248A1E6AB4D96AC2D22C7695F3D78"><enum>104.</enum><header>Enhancement of 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><subsection id="HC2E9733FD56C4908AD86CAF0C1E3571C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><paragraph id="HB0E6D139C9E04E3A9B856BA46A36330D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Permitted investments</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">Section 403(b)(7)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>if the amounts are to be invested in regulated investment company stock to be held in that custodial account</quote> and inserting <quote>if the amounts are to be held in that custodial account and invested in regulated investment company stock or a group trust intended to satisfy the requirements of Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling 81–100 (or any successor guidance)</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H5920E81DB406428A9843F8BB99806033"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The heading of paragraph (7) of section 403(b) of such Code is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">for regulated investment company stock</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H86B1AF2FC1DD43A0810C2DF39AE8C1A2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to amounts invested after December 31, 2021.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA1D6AA1276064FB69CDE12788B6FB321"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendments to the Investment Company Act of <enum-in-header>1940</enum-in-header></header><text>Section 3(c)(11) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/80a-3">15 U.S.C. 80a–3(c)(11)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF52FD1D136D46BFB4E7DF085402E2B9" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H56C877C1AE60456AB4871AFD8035645D"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Any—</text><subparagraph id="H74EC8558325B42EA8602618027529527"><enum>(A)</enum><text>employee’s stock bonus, pension, or profit-sharing trust which meets the requirements for qualification under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3E5F9CFA245540D2B33C09317DF1E70A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>custodial account meeting the requirements of section 403(b)(7) of such Code;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCB8946BEF8394238B9434A9CA4BEA20E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>governmental plan described in section 3(a)(2)(C) of the Securities Act of 1933;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H421919F434FE42D88C3525F1ACB5498C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>collective trust fund maintained by a bank consisting solely of assets of one or more—</text><clause id="H23057D3AA3A54AEA91B896AA7F739E2B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>trusts described in subparagraph (A); </text></clause><clause id="H952701E7E2D046A2964C55E2EDC54295"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>government plans described in subparagraph (C); </text></clause><clause id="H07B9D24879E14949B154EF89A174F3C9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>church plans, companies, or accounts that are excluded from the definition of an investment company under paragraph (14) of this subsection; or</text></clause><clause id="H39ED02A300F54CB9B87CB1473BFB8D56"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>plans which meet the requirements of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">section 403(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 if—</text><subclause id="HBC4DDEF1212A41349E2FC716496CC5D1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>such plan is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1001">29 U.S.C. 1001</external-xref> et seq.); </text></subclause><subclause id="H1D25ABDA929B4A4795F9F4288356B69D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any employer making such plan available agrees to serve as a fiduciary for the plan with respect to the selection of the plan’s investments among which participants can choose; or </text></subclause><subclause id="H2A08D036BBD2410AB31F05F63FD1F6C7"><enum>(III)</enum><text>such plan is a governmental plan (as defined in section 414(d) of such Code); or</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2F73F739570145FA800CF0171E12E616"><enum>(E)</enum><text>separate account the assets of which are derived solely from—</text><clause id="H7824C1BE4FAB453AA608E6482A8DBB02"><enum>(i)</enum><text>contributions under pension or profit-sharing plans which meet the requirements of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the requirements for deduction of the employer’s contribution under section 404(a)(2) of such Code;</text></clause><clause id="H5040715B09B3495CBC47B12B45A9B301"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>contributions under governmental plans in connection with which interests, participations, or securities are exempted from the registration provisions of section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 by section 3(a)(2)(C) of such Act;</text></clause><clause id="H34CDECE6F596453BA1BC4DF81D2DCF00"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>advances made by an insurance company in connection with the operation of such separate account; and</text></clause><clause id="HA175DD92D9E54C6283D2F84AAB9F43A3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>contributions to a plan described in subparagraph (D)(iv).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H494ACCB49F8D4AD795B76B3EFC0890B2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Amendments to the Securities Act of <enum-in-header>1933</enum-in-header></header><text>Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/77c">15 U.S.C. 77c(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="HF4D31577767C44328AAFE2C85DB4E3A5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or (D)</quote> and inserting <quote>(D) a plan which meets the requirements of section 403(b) of such Code if (i) such plan is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1001">29 U.S.C. 1001</external-xref> et seq.), (ii) any employer making such plan available agrees to serve as a fiduciary for the plan with respect to the selection of the plan’s investments among which participants can choose, or (iii) such plan is a governmental plan (as defined in section 414(d) of such Code); or (E)</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H932FBCF20382445E9681303A328E89AE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(C), or (D)</quote> and inserting <quote>(C), (D), or (E)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H1A9CCC4F6384418FA347AB50342E532D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(iii) which is a plan funded</quote> and inserting <quote>(iii) in the case of a plan not described in subparagraph (D), which is a plan funded</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4D76ED57FDE3406EB31E8EDB794C9BB7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of <enum-in-header>1934</enum-in-header></header><text>Section 3(a)(12)(C) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/78c">15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(12)(C)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="HA9E13A17E33A40F490C7883DF99D9A84"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or (iv)</quote> and inserting <quote>(iv) a plan which meets the requirements of section 403(b) of such Code if (I) such plan is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1001">29 U.S.C. 1001</external-xref> et seq.), (II) any employer making such plan available agrees to serve as a fiduciary for the plan with respect to the selection of the plan’s investments among which participants can choose, or (III) such plan is a governmental plan (as defined in section 414(d) of such Code), or (v)</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HD2AA43B2D666451F977E7E8D7616990C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(ii), or (iii)</quote> and inserting <quote>(ii), (iii), or (iv)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB07435E450344F97BC17F5CA4C076591"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(II) is a plan funded</quote> and inserting <quote>(II) in the case of a plan not described in clause (iv), is a plan funded</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HEFB960DD776E4D008352DB109806C689"><enum>105.</enum><header>Increase in age for required beginning date for mandatory distributions</header><subsection id="HEFA0E336E9884AEC802A5EB188274053"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(a)(9)(C)(i)(I)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>age 72</quote> and inserting <quote>the applicable age</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H30B0F11D71DA4F75AD5F8737F10C1245"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Spouse beneficiaries; special rule for owners</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraphs (B)(iv)(I) and (C)(ii)(I) of section 401(a)(9) of such Code are each amended by striking <quote>age 72</quote> and inserting <quote>the applicable age</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H403F65BB86C64BC98C9D7CA31F84DD58" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicable age</header><text>Section 401(a)(9)(C) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HFF4CB24B1B9E4E35908AF8EA2FC79BBC" display-inline="no-display-inline"><clause id="H6339B6A60F1A46B186CDD626C8B2CF7E" commented="no"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Applicable age</header><subclause id="HB1761482AA724578BE224567FD47702F" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who attains age 72 after December 31, 2021, and age 73 before January 1, 2029, the applicable age is 73.</text></subclause><subclause id="HE316320599874C7AA449A0C09BD86B83" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>In the case of an individual who attains age 73 after December 31, 2028, and age 74 before January 1, 2032, the applicable age is 74.</text></subclause><subclause id="HA204A5DA00784BA590966A8FA097250A" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who attains age 74 after December 31, 2031, the applicable age is 75.</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H70E5E9150CE94E64BCA6078AAC1D9007"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The last sentence of section 408(b) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>age 72</quote> and inserting <quote>the applicable age (determined under section 401(a)(9)(C)(v) for the calendar year in which such taxable year begins)</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="HE7AD124883994E8483A3145094C4EC62" commented="no"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to distributions required to be made after December 31, 2021, with respect to individuals who attain age 72 after such date.</text></subsection></section><section id="H5EE97ECB125B42B3B4AC68AEA1C3616C" commented="no"><enum>106.</enum><header>Indexing IRA catch-up limit</header><subsection id="H188F0E46EC874C3985E00D85D55FADF0" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subparagraph (C) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/219">section 219(b)(5)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC014733929B44CD6BBFAA6259FCAAB80" style="OLC"><clause id="H2FCDD7E401E64565A65D219B645376DC" commented="no"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Indexing of catch-up limitation</header><text>In the case of any taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 2022, the $1,000 amount under subparagraph (B)(ii) shall be increased by an amount equal to—</text><subclause id="HAE0C321F44394C06A7FEBA097052966D" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>such dollar amount, multiplied by</text></subclause><subclause id="H92C9CEAAD32B4530A063FFAA6C166C74" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which the taxable year begins, determined by substituting <quote>calendar year 2021</quote> for <quote>calendar year 2016</quote> in subparagraph (A)(ii) thereof.</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause" commented="no">If any amount after adjustment under the preceding sentence is not a multiple of $100, such amount shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of $100.</continuation-text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HBEC34A0675644299A4FEC576E263F902" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection></section><section id="HAD251E44B79546F39DF7FE186D566FA7"><enum>107.</enum><header>Higher catch-up limit to apply at age <enum-in-header>62, 63,</enum-in-header> and <enum-in-header>64</enum-in-header></header><subsection id="H1F220105BB514D6B9D57B8171D94F729"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><paragraph id="H1E859075E3944A39A5FEC26E285BBCA9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Plans other than simple plans</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414(v)(2)(B)(i)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting the following before the period: <quote>($10,000, in the case of an eligible participant who has attained age 62, but not age 65, before the close of the taxable year)</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HFC259F376B5F42378EEC3BF49DF9EB90"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Simple plans</header><text>Section 414(v)(2)(B)(ii) of such Code is amended by inserting the following before the period: <quote>($5,000, in the case of an eligible participant who has attained age 62, but not age 65, before the close of the taxable year)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC672F17FF51F42999FAB1F1540BB8098"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Cost-of-Living adjustments</header><text>Subparagraph (C) of section 414(v)(2) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>In the case of a year beginning after December 31, 2022, the Secretary shall adjust annually the $10,000 amount in subparagraph (B)(i) and the $5,000 amount in subparagraph (B)(ii) for increases in the cost-of-living at the same time and in the same manner as adjustments under the preceding sentence; except that the base period taken into account shall be the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2021.</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H87B492C59DA14662AFB4BD5C5618B6D8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection></section><section id="H64E30125228C4D1F8A837ADBFEEA8394" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header>Multiple employer 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><subsection id="H1F55C0B5E06E41AD80D3DD50CE4962EB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">Section 403(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H39AB972B12A741999E553B501863E2B9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H78259FB84009436DB87A98C263B6145F"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Multiple employer plans</header><subparagraph id="H69337CAEA861468D89C49CE06E6AA067"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except in the case of a church plan, this subsection shall not be treated as failing to apply to an annuity contract solely by reason of such contract being purchased under a plan maintained by more than 1 employer.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4D6707139750446BB4B24B83E17E08A1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Treatment of employers failing to meet requirements of plan</header><clause id="H9B7606154B49410790C0CA0A2864196E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of a plan maintained by more than 1 employer, this subsection shall not be treated as failing to apply to an annuity contract held under such plan merely because of one or more employers failing to meet the requirements of this subsection if such plan satisfies rules similar to the rules of section 413(e)(2) with respect to any such employer failure.</text></clause><clause id="H5615D4C77EC447368BD9513AABE76F22"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Additional requirements in case of non-governmental plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A plan shall not be treated as meeting the requirements of this subparagraph unless the plan meets the requirements of subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 413(e)(1), except in the case of a multiple employer plan maintained solely by any of the following: A State, a political subdivision of a State, or an agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H9AED4E6C10FD45748F1A8A1BB55B7212"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual registration for 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> multiple employer plan</header><text>Section 6057 of such Code is amended by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h) and by inserting after subsection (f) the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HFDE3058FC7624CBCA6176C055A5B4E43" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="HF5F8647A1C4B4BF685773B32FF2DCB93"><enum>(g)</enum><header>403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> multiple employer plans treated as one plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of annuity contracts to which this section applies and to which section 403(b) applies by reason of the plan under which such contracts are purchased meeting the requirements of paragraph (15) thereof, such plan shall be treated as a single plan for purposes of this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H0079F179989C428799F41B81222F6A34"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual information returns for 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> multiple employer plan</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6058">Section 6058</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g) and by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H11C6A48B8913481A932DED9F7B399888" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="H8C3FE958D67A427596213114B3C0932B"><enum>(f)</enum><header>403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> multiple employer plans treated as one plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of annuity contracts to which this section applies and to which section 403(b) applies by reason of the plan under which such contracts are purchased meeting the requirements of paragraph (15) thereof, such plan shall be treated as a single plan for purposes of this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HB48B69CCD0394BE78DE169724F9D73EC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Amendments to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of <enum-in-header>1974</enum-in-header></header><paragraph id="HEEB48AAF778B49C7AB5FC086B555884F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Treated as pooled employer plan</header><subparagraph id="HC30F64C038B64CA9B4B5AA0CE0F16FDE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 3(43)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is amended—</text><clause id="HDC9DE1ED27F541D79E626F92B180B061"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>section 501(a) of such Code or</quote> and inserting <quote>501(a) of such Code, a plan that consists of contracts described in section 403(b) of such Code, or</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="H31416F0CD368456BAFB3EC1A83AA8C75"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the flush text at the end, by striking <quote>the plan.</quote> and inserting <quote>the plan, but such term shall include any program (other than a governmental plan) maintained for the benefit of the employees of more than 1 employer that consists of contracts described in section 403(b) of such Code and that meets the requirements of subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 413(e)(1) of such Code.</quote>. </text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H31730B18C3994798A3495839B4A623D9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 3(43)(B)(v)(II) and 3(44)(A)(i)(I) of such Act are each amended by striking <quote>section 401(a) of such Code or</quote> and inserting <quote>401(a) of such Code, a plan that consists of contracts described in section 403(b) of such Code, or</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1EC043E79B7D454DA2D5A7C774DDA8DE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Fiduciaries</header><text>Section 3(43)(B)(ii) of such Act is amended—</text><subparagraph id="HCD77210A699242669B931DE96F8922DB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>trustees meeting the requirements of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/408">section 408(a)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986</quote> and inserting <quote>trustees (or other fiduciaries in the case of a plan that consists of contracts described in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">section 403(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) meeting the requirements of section 408(a)(2) of such Code</quote>, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD51C1368C12D4D809E71BB538642699A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>holding</quote> and inserting <quote>holding (or causing to be held under the terms of a plan consisting of such contracts)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2A4C71D94DC9418C9E99A2208EEB8E59"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Regulations relating to plan termination</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s designee) shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to clarify the treatment of a plan termination by an employer in the case of plans to which section 403(b)(15) of such Code applies.</text></subsection><subsection id="H4118A7DE73284C96A11BAD8ACB35CC5F"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Modification of model plan language, etc</header><paragraph id="H28FF8796E6A747ECB13F227B54A6B2B4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Plan notifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s designee) shall modify the model plan language published under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/413">section 413(e)(5)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include language which notifies participating employers described in section 501(c)(3), and which are exempt from tax under section 501(a), that the plan is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and that such employer is a plan sponsor with respect to its employees participating in the multiple employer plan and, as such, has certain fiduciary duties with respect to the plan and to its employees.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC0DAB9ECE3FD464699CBEE0EE381AFF1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Model plans for multiple employer 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> non-governmental plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For plans to which <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">section 403(b)(15)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applies (other than a plan maintained for its employees by a State, a political subdivision of a State, or an agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing) the Secretary shall publish model plan language similar to model plan language published under section 413(e)(5) of such Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H72DDA68638FB43A38F947278E593AAAD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Educational outreach to employers exempt from tax</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall provide education and outreach to increase awareness to employers described in section 501(c)(3), and which are exempt from tax under section 501(a), that multiple employer plans are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and that such employer is a plan sponsor with respect to its employees participating in the multiple employer plan and, as such, has certain fiduciary duties with respect to the plan and to its employees.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD5B3AAE6E24249DFBEEC808E24B74F7B"><enum>(g)</enum><header>No inference with respect to church plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Regarding any application of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">section 403(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to an annuity contract purchased under a church plan (as defined in section 414(e) of such Code) maintained by more than 1 employer, or to any application of rules similar to section 413(e) of such Code to such a plan, no inference shall be made from section 403(b)(15)(A) of such Code (as added by this Act) not applying to such plans.</text></subsection><subsection id="HAE078FBA394C4D67B5EB6670023EDADA"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Effective date</header><paragraph id="H84C9A2F6333C4EF78293D3BE4BBEE318"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H0617E9A5653948BDBF6FF2947D794545"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be construed as limiting the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s delegate (determined without regard to such amendment) to provide for the proper treatment of a failure to meet any requirement applicable under such Code with respect to one employer (and its employees) in the case of a plan to which section 403(b)(15) applies.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H9FD0BFBDADDE4ABC802C9812364C4723" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><header>Treatment of student loan payments as elective deferrals for purposes of matching contributions</header><subsection id="H715ECA50B8844D67AFD1E97E84161643"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(m)(4)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (i), by striking the period at the end of clause (ii) and inserting <quote>, and</quote>, and by adding at the end the following new clause:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="HEBEFDB12B002415EBC12AB93A99B6DA4" style="OLC"><clause id="HAD1F1E14B82942ACB020F75CBE7F7C0F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subject to the requirements of paragraph (13), any employer contribution made to a defined contribution plan on behalf of an employee on account of a qualified student loan payment.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HC52365D788F3417FBAB080769BCAE192"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Qualified student loan payment</header><text>Section 401(m)(4) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="H2B78B41DD4334A07AAC5E32954B07B95" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="HC2CED52136004742B479CAABE58E22A9"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Qualified student loan payment</header><text>The term <term>qualified student loan payment</term> means a payment made by an employee in repayment of a qualified education loan (as defined section 221(d)(1)) incurred by the employee to pay qualified higher education expenses, but only—</text><clause id="H37FF9D3B853D472C9346021E2C8BBD85"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to the extent such payments in the aggregate for the year do not exceed an amount equal to—</text><subclause id="H3C298BB0D7DF4000A8FF4BF8788C28C7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the limitation applicable under section 402(g) for the year (or, if lesser, the employee's compensation (as defined in section 415(c)(3)) for the year), reduced by</text></subclause><subclause id="HB6D2F00449B04C8E986066ADBD2825E6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the elective deferrals made by the employee for such year, and</text></subclause></clause><clause id="HDB74D1978CD840C3A3532EAB5CB15E6F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if the employee certifies to the employer making the matching contribution under this paragraph that such payment has been made on such loan.</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">For purposes of this subparagraph, the term <term>qualified higher education expenses</term> means the cost of attendance (as defined in section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997) at an eligible educational institution (as defined in section 221(d)(2)).</continuation-text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H07607DA7C83C4E0DB0543370834590C2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Matching contributions for qualified student loan payments</header><text>Section 401(m) of such Code is amended by redesignating paragraph (13) as paragraph (14), and by inserting after paragraph (12) the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="HF5F9E70DCB7D46D99B0026B8976F1E86" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H4CE390106D574ABD84D2EF1DED097C3D"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Matching contributions for qualified student loan payments</header><subparagraph id="H7806EFCDD872481ABBF7BF7DF795BD94"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (4)(A)(iii), an employer contribution made to a defined contribution plan on account of a qualified student loan payment shall be treated as a matching contribution for purposes of this title if—</text><clause id="H6B2DFDEA8BF64C149F5E01B60A8B1051"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the plan provides matching contributions on account of elective deferrals at the same rate as contributions on account of qualified student loan payments,</text></clause><clause id="H49CE9F622AE4430D8A408CF856D3A56A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the plan provides matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments only on behalf of employees otherwise eligible to receive matching contributions on account of elective deferrals, </text></clause><clause id="H59C762CE96D54465A7266EE1F8B79DA8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>under the plan, all employees eligible to receive matching contributions on account of elective deferrals are eligible to receive matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments, and</text></clause><clause id="HDEE8A73B61534DC8B8E088C041455F8E"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the plan provides that matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments vest in the same manner as matching contributions on account of elective deferrals.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDAD673F9149B47B08ED4666E01AFB913"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Treatment for purposes of nondiscrimination rules, etc</header><clause id="HD88D3EA4EE104C35A65B3C54F6A851D8"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination rules</header><text>For purposes of subparagraph (A)(iii), subsection (a)(4), and section 410(b), matching contributions described in paragraph (4)(A)(iii) shall not fail to be treated as available to an employee solely because such employee does not have debt incurred under a qualified education loan (as defined in section 221(d)(1)).</text></clause><clause id="HE1CD006CC69448A3BBDCF6EAE0386867"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Student loan payments not treated as plan contribution</header><text>Except as provided in clause (iii), a qualified student loan payment shall not be treated as a contribution to a plan under this title.</text></clause><clause id="H3F96C4CC96F540DA899E9829DC94CD5C"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Matching contribution rules</header><text>Solely for purposes of meeting the requirements of paragraph (11)(B) or (12) of this subsection, or paragraph (11)(B)(i)(II), (12)(B), or (13)(D) of subsection (k), a plan may treat a qualified student loan payment as an elective deferral or an elective contribution, whichever is applicable.</text></clause><clause id="HAD8FBA49BBFB415DA06CA6E570D812DE"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Actual deferral percentage testing</header><text>In determining whether a plan meets the requirements of subsection (k)(3)(A)(ii) for a plan year, the plan may apply the requirements of such subsection separately with respect to all employees who receive matching contributions described in paragraph (4)(A)(iii) for the plan year.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF2A9995CD28F4745BB4BD756BE840C67" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Employer may rely on employee certification</header><text>The employer may rely on an employee certification of payment under paragraph (4)(D)(ii). </text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H98D2C447DCFF49AF9B942C16E911834F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Simple retirement accounts</header><text>Section 408(p)(2) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="H00EC8D7B383E4031937358426ED14B20" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H6306C7A0D763402487256002C690FFE9"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Matching contributions for qualified student loan payments</header><clause id="H5021A81115B341FAA258ABC5939F74E9"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to the rules of clause (iii), an arrangement shall not fail to be treated as meeting the requirements of subparagraph (A)(iii) solely because under the arrangement, solely for purposes of such subparagraph, qualified student loan payments are treated as amounts elected by the employee under subparagraph (A)(i)(I) to the extent such payments do not exceed—</text><subclause id="H27A18F27E2D143258D9D57A95D079F91"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the applicable dollar amount under subparagraph (E) (after application of section 414(v)) for the year (or, if lesser, the employee's compensation (as defined in section 415(c)(3)) for the year), reduced by</text></subclause><subclause id="HA983BBCA15634E7EA305596423032304"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any other amounts elected by the employee under subparagraph (A)(i)(I) for the year.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="HF2F299D78190418A8261BEE0B1E4684A"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Qualified student loan payment</header><text>For purposes of this subparagraph—</text><subclause id="H02FBA45384DE4C20BE8093680393EA25"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>qualified student loan payment</term> means a payment made by an employee in repayment of a qualified education loan (as defined in section 221(d)(1)) incurred by the employee to pay qualified higher education expenses, but only if the employee certifies to the employer making the matching contribution that such payment has been made on such a loan.</text></subclause><subclause id="H16E4CB2A518F4C9698C0FB8031B63867"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Qualified higher education expenses</header><text>The term <term>qualified higher education expenses</term> has the same meaning as when used in section 401(m)(4)(D).</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H60B62C04DAA1466DA369FF5D28E9DD8D"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Applicable rules</header><text>Clause (i) shall apply to an arrangement only if, under the arrangement—</text><subclause id="HACE95BCCD9934596BC28581E5D581AE2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments are provided only on behalf of employees otherwise eligible to elect contributions under subparagraph (A)(i)(I), and</text></subclause><subclause id="H518603AF76CF4172B61CBE2769C65384"><enum>(II)</enum><text>all employees otherwise eligible to participate in the arrangement are eligible to receive matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H8424B63F3A9A44DBA1150B665D93A265"><enum>(e)</enum><header>403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><text>Section 403(b)(12)(A) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The fact that the employer offers matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments as described in section 401(m)(13) shall not be taken into account in determining whether the arrangement satisfies the requirements of clause (ii) (and any regulation thereunder).</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="HFB6A32A699AE4C07AB59FCCB70387532"><enum>(f)</enum><header>457<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><text>Section 457(b) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>A plan which is established and maintained by an employer which is described in subsection (e)(1)(A) shall not be treated as failing to meet the requirements of this subsection solely because the plan, or another plan maintained by the employer which meets the requirements of section 401(a) or 403(b), provides for matching contributions on account of qualified student loan payments as described in section 401(m)(13).</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H964356F3908F4AA3B9538E77B7878284"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Regulatory authority</header><text>The Secretary shall prescribe regulations for purposes of implementing the amendments made by this section, including regulations—</text><paragraph id="H017C04A19AA3449BBBFE33133CF56F24"><enum>(1)</enum><text>permitting a plan to make matching contributions for qualified student loan payments, as defined in sections 401(m)(4)(D) and 408(p)(2)(F) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by this section, at a different frequency than matching contributions are otherwise made under the plan, provided that the frequency is not less than annually;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB2EABDB67626436DB80BDDCA5812F73D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>permitting employers to establish reasonable procedures to claim matching contributions for such qualified student loan payments under the plan, including an annual deadline (not earlier than 3 months after the close of each plan year) by which a claim must be made; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H2F7B944775CA43CDB42611D6D4B3F83D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>promulgating model amendments which plans may adopt to implement matching contributions on such qualified student loan payments for purposes of sections 401(m), 408(p), 403(b), and 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB0B43FF4199B44F296342519F3A1BE67"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to contributions made for plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H957385446C58443196448AC289AD0468"><enum>110.</enum><header>Application of credit for small employer pension plan startup costs to employers which join an existing plan</header><subsection id="H4EFC3F41591C4DBE961A001B80477189"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/45E">Section 45E(d)(3)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>effective</quote> and inserting <quote>effective with respect to the eligible employer</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H002B3FB8CD724DE4AF57D41440CA9BC9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall apply to eligible employer plans which become effective with respect to the eligible employer after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H4EA919E8DEFA4D17B8C6A7FCD0D4FB97" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header>Military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit for small employers</header><subsection id="H89D1781FCD5B4C9B8090DF847BFB49A3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4F25423B0B5497180C20D140C90FAE3" style="OLC"><section id="HBEC94AB044594FEEA69793E54C09E061"><enum>45U.</enum><header>Military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit for small employers</header><subsection id="H0CBFC24F98474631BB6236F8D97C6111"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of section 38, in the case of any eligible small employer, the military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit determined under this section for any taxable year is an amount equal to the sum of—</text><paragraph id="H06B3A1B0B9D4480BA96FCD7FF74E727C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$250 with respect to each military spouse who is an employee of such employer and who is eligible to participate in an eligible defined contribution plan of such employer at any time during such taxable year, plus</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HE992A70993724E66855DC781A6755350"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">so much of the contributions made by such employer to all such plans with respect to such employee during such taxable year as do not exceed $250.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC0F7FF691C3C458C8AB0F674CEED7F96"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>An individual shall only be taken into account as a military spouse under subsection (a) for the taxable year which includes the date on which such individual began participating in the eligible defined contribution plan of the employer and the 2 succeeding taxable years.</text></subsection><subsection id="HB576EAC9338040579EC14B0CF1E7C951"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligible small employer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text><paragraph id="H538EC5BBF20A4D8F8CF0AF428A588EEE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>eligible small employer</term> means an eligible employer (as defined in section 408(p)(2)(C)(i)(I)). </text></paragraph><paragraph id="HEB5EDC55B5C6432D86B30210BAFFA09C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application of 2-year grace period</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A rule similar to the rule of section 408(p)(2)(C)(i)(II) shall apply for purposes of this section.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9BFF5472B6E440DA88354D0466073163"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Military spouse</header><text>For purposes of this section—</text><paragraph id="HB5E4061AF28B4CCFA3288A89D6D928CE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>military spouse</term> means, with respect to any employer, any individual who is married (within the meaning of section 7703 as of the first date that the employee is employed by the employer) to an individual who is a member of the uniformed services (as defined section 101(a)(5) of title 10, United States Code). For purposes of this section, an employer may rely on an employee’s certification that such employee’s spouse is a member of the uniformed services if such certification provides the name, rank, and service branch of such spouse.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9115A0F1BD5541F28D1BE9588F77B89F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusion of highly compensated employees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to any employer, the term <term>military spouse</term> shall not include any individual if such individual is a highly compensated employee of such employer (within the meaning of section 414(q)).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD36F92F3F7D541838B69ACB1A2204582"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Eligible defined contribution plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>eligible defined contribution plan</term> means, with respect to any eligible small employer, any defined contribution plan (as defined in section 414(i)) of such employer if, under the terms of such plan—</text><paragraph id="H7EBB0F4574434FECB9E5D2E27EE5E18D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>military spouses employed by such employer are eligible to participate in such plan not later than the date which is 2 months after the date on which such individual begins employment with such employer, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H6066BC25B22E42B6B52452396F708A42"><enum>(2)</enum><text>military spouses who are eligible to participate in such plan—</text><subparagraph id="HF509CDA2D11D40EF8C53C84EDCFAEC6B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>are immediately eligible to receive an amount of employer contributions under such plan which is not less the amount of such contributions that a similarly situated participant who is not a military spouse would be eligible to receive under such plan after 2 years of service, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4B5BD39190F646568717ACCA74087AB6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">immediately have a nonforfeitable right to the employee’s accrued benefit derived from employer contributions under such plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H85FB22DABA3E4EBA99A10EA1F55717C8" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Aggregation rule</header><text>All persons treated as a single employer under subsection (b), (c), (m), or (o) of section 414 shall be treated as one employer for purposes of this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HC4E68DF16A8D40809999FB923FDAA352" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Credit allowed as part of general business credit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 38(b) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>plus</quote> at the end of paragraph (32), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (33) and inserting <quote>, plus</quote>, and by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08C9D75450F34B28B5CA7A7AD76738A0" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H6CD40E161B5B462F8E95263B873550BF" commented="no"><enum>(34)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of an eligible small employer (as defined in section 45U(c)), the military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit determined under section 45U(a).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HE0C2ED4D68E84E81AE28B4917CFAA5D8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Specified credit for purposes of certified professional organizations</header><text>Section 3511(d)(2) of such Code is amended by redesignating subparagraphs (F), (G), and (H) as subparagraphs (G), (H), and (I), respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H69975A9159E2436B953EB3CA16BB07A1" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="H17CC5026A04C4AC880BA32867BE7AA5A"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 45U (military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit),</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H8474B7FFF25B4B16ADF8DD7271E889F3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new item:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D46F0A90BB445D7B6FDC745F5EA0CC2" style="OLC"><toc container-level="quoted-block-container" idref="HF4F25423B0B5497180C20D140C90FAE3" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration"><toc-entry idref="HBEC94AB044594FEEA69793E54C09E061" level="section">Sec. 45U. Military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit for small employers.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HD0343407622849CF83E61E8EC5AA2D01"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H9A6681CD5EAF4A59AF580874CEFFF942"><enum>112.</enum><header>Small immediate financial incentives for contributing to a plan</header><subsection id="HD5EDD2F678474AE89BBD0B7E58C36489"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraph (A) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401(k)(4)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting <quote>(other than a de minimis financial incentive)</quote> after <quote>any other benefit</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="HF207F0CE89A34CB1A7B2D6F2E99CBD8E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Section 403<enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><text>Subparagraph (A) of section 403(b)(12) of such Code, as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>A plan shall not fail to satisfy clause (ii) solely by reason of offering a de minimis financial incentive to employees to elect to have the employer make contributions pursuant to a salary reduction agreement.</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H4EC893BC275E4827A42768AE28FCBD19"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exemption from prohibited transaction rules</header><text>Subsection (d) of section 4975 of such Code is amended by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of paragraph (22), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (23) and inserting <quote>, or</quote>, and by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E7E9FCBE9EF4A1BA726C72184C16791" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H43D1A6A810C94C3CA48BE6649C590A6B"><enum>(24)</enum><text>the provision of a de minimis financial incentive described in section 401(k)(4)(A) or 403(b)(12)(A).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HA6F2A5CB75D5486D8115589BFD41D4E3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Amendment of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974</header><text>Subsection (b) of section 408 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1108">29 U.S.C. 1108(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B36771653C54738924CE3BE25942195" style="OLC"><paragraph id="HF63E8B477A0F4E7095E88425514D66C0"><enum>(21)</enum><text>The provision of a de minimis financial incentive described in section 401(k)(4)(A) or 403(b)(12)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H591303D2B37A45EC9E80637EA00C8B6D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to plan years beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H92AE2713946344C88067AA53B1EF3BB4"><enum>113.</enum><header>Safe harbor for corrections of employee elective deferral failures</header><subsection id="H8888C2CB10B24171949D5341D8F7281B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H954E3D6FC6AB487D8B8528283B2ED8B6" style="OLC"><subsection id="H93788895B0674134B51140C9DC2F4227"><enum>(aa)</enum><header>Correcting automatic contribution errors</header><paragraph id="H453573D0586E458B99D4D3A463FA07CA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any plan or arrangement shall not fail to be treated as a plan described in sections 401(a), 403(b), 408, or 457(b), as applicable, solely by reason of a corrected error.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H394160093ABE4A8E8850702CBAA0167E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Corrected error defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>corrected error</term> means a reasonable administrative error in implementing an automatic enrollment or automatic escalation feature in accordance with the terms of an eligible automatic contribution arrangement (as defined under subsection (w)(3)), provided that such implementation error—</text><subparagraph id="H1000F630F2824568AA9524ACC226F407"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is corrected by the date that is 9½ months after the end of the plan year during which the failure occurred,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3026DD4359DE44C5834B21E803FC0622"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is corrected in a manner that is favorable to the participant, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H916C4B6448CF4D768A1BF0370D7F5FF8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is of a type which is so corrected for all similarly situated participants in a nondiscriminatory manner.</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">Such correction may occur before or after the participant has terminated employment and may occur without regard to whether the error is identified by the Secretary. </continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="H586D74ADD05040529E6F6C3AB4705C7F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Regulations and guidance for favorable correction methods</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall, by regulations or other guidance of general applicability, specify the correction methods that are in a manner favorable to the participant for purposes of paragraph (2)(B).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H4D556716D8EB42BCB2909F9FB34B0148"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by this section shall apply with respect to any errors with respect to which the date referred to in section 414(aa) (as added by this section) is after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="HDC2F3439F3584C8B9A9743B38E2E3CCF"><enum>114.</enum><header>One-year reduction in period of service requirement for long-term, part-time workers</header><subsection id="H74BAB8210F02481282760FECE3C0B068"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(k)(2)(D)(ii)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>3</quote> and inserting <quote>2</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H1BA4E99D01084361A354770985AF158F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clarification of prior service for purposes of vesting rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 112(b) of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 is amended by striking <quote>section 401(k)(2)(D)(ii)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs (2)(D)(ii) and (15)(B)(iii) of section 401(k)</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H11B3EB5DE61C47DEAAF810C7F3353406"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 112 of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019.</text></subsection></section><section id="HAF2494024F98476EA6862561234C7F15"><enum>115.</enum><header>Findings relating to <enum-in-header>S </enum-in-header>corporation <enum-in-header>ESOPs</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress finds the following:</text><paragraph id="HA9BA6CF9DF0A4A5292D077A4D0495195"><enum>(1)</enum><text>On January 1, 1998, nearly 25 years after the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 was enacted and the employee stock ownership plan (hereafter in this section referred to as an <quote>ESOP</quote>) was created, employees were first permitted to be owners of subchapter S corporations pursuant to the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/188">Public Law 104–188</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9304589EDCAE410785B1D54593F95509"><enum>(2)</enum><text>With the passage of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/34">Public Law 105–34</external-xref>), Congress designed incentives to encourage businesses to become ESOP-owned S corporations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H23A69B92FDD04C839D7508290F6BEFE9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Since that time, several thousand companies have become ESOP-owned S corporations, creating an ownership interest for several million Americans in companies in every State in the country, in industries ranging from heavy manufacturing to construction and contracting to services.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H2C6FCBC2919448259E552E4D3AD3DBA3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Every United States worker who is an employee-owner of an S corporation company through an ESOP has a valuable qualified retirement savings account.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H412109AD90724B8D9BFCE122AB1B8651"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Recent studies have shown that employees of ESOP-owned S corporations enjoy greater job stability, wages and benefits than employees of comparable companies; and ESOP companies are better able to weather economic downturns.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H2BB5B8584C714A9896697BCA414D8BF3"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Studies also show that employee-owners of S corporation ESOP companies have amassed meaningful retirement savings through their ESOP accounts that will give them the means to retire with dignity.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HDC395EF4D33544C4B0287C731302EF9B"><enum>(7)</enum><text>It is the goal of Congress to preserve and foster employee ownership of S corporations through ESOPs.</text></paragraph></section><enum>II</enum><header>Preservation of Income</header><section id="HE54D4E2B86B049C0A44D94698DE9165E"><enum>201.</enum><header>Remove required minimum distribution barriers for life annuities</header><subsection id="H53A2C5C416C14666AA27728262D17B11"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(a)(9)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block id="HB0D6B6E3B098466BA6A9C8D4BCC64D45" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="HD2FD43DA4E334A1094577550D1D98E31"><enum>(J)</enum><header>Certain increases in payments under a commercial annuity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall prohibit a commercial annuity (within the meaning of section 3405(e)(6)) that is issued in connection with any eligible retirement plan (within the meaning of section 402(c)(8)(B), other than a defined benefit plan) from providing one or more of the following types of payments on or after the annuity starting date:</text><clause id="HBD8388AF993A4C52B067C860AC754006"><enum>(i)</enum><text>annuity payments that increase by a constant percentage, applied not less frequently than annually, at a rate that is less than 5 percent per year,</text></clause><clause id="HE474DD6403B340E89325340804901B40"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a lump sum payment that—</text><subclause id="HB92E5F2CEABB412DA06ED7D1F0B6ED8C"><enum>(I)</enum><text>results in a shortening of the payment period with respect to an annuity or a full or partial commutation of the future annuity payments, provided that such lump sum is determined using reasonable actuarial methods and assumptions, as determined in good faith by the issuer of the contract, or</text></subclause><subclause id="HADB231356693488E9B64545A07D7647D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>accelerates the receipt of annuity payments that are scheduled to be received within the ensuing 12 months, regardless of whether such acceleration shortens the payment period with respect to the annuity, reduces the dollar amount of benefits to be paid under the contract, or results in a suspension of annuity payments during the period being accelerated,</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H663C591EE07B4BC3BE1F644C16C0C329"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>an amount which is in the nature of a dividend or similar distribution, provided that the issuer of the contract determines such amount based on a reasonable comparison of the actuarial factors assumed when calculating the initial annuity payments and the issuer’s experience with respect to those factors, or</text></clause><clause id="H34CD9E633A974C188CAAC72E0E3C0D55"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a final payment upon death that does not exceed the excess of the total amount of the consideration paid for the annuity payments, less the aggregate amount of prior distributions or payments from or under the contract.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H95769C4DFE6E42B3ADDA4B32A08D69D7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations and enforcement</header><paragraph id="HDA862DDD9BC241BFAC1C2BF6F219021C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>By the date that is one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall amend the regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury relating to <quote>Required Distributions from Retirement Plans,</quote> 69 Fed. Reg. 33288 (June 15, 2004), and make any corresponding amendments to other regulations, in order to—</text><subparagraph id="H9F45EE596A9947278285B7E10A00FD42"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conform such regulations to subsection (a), including by eliminating the types of payments described in subsection (a) from the scope of the requirement in Q&A–14(c) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 that the total future expected payments must exceed the total value being annuitized;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEF7C6BF9FFE541A8A5503DDB0D6A2C42"><enum>(B)</enum><text>amend Q&A–14(c) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 to provide that a commercial annuity that provides an initial payment that is at least equal to the initial payment that would be required from an individual account pursuant to Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–5 will be deemed to satisfy the requirement in Q&A–14(c) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 that the total future expected payments must exceed the total value being annuitized; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H138DF375D4804660910DD2AFBBA76F35"><enum>(C)</enum><text>amend Q&A–14(e)(3) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 to provide that the total future expected payments under a commercial annuity are determined using the tables or other actuarial assumptions that the issuer of the contract actually uses in pricing the premiums and benefits with respect to the contract, provided that such tables or other actuarial assumptions are reasonable.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4E369C0A50004E1FB70B6BD86944FEB1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As of the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall administer and enforce the law in accordance with subsections (a) and (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1C4007B6BE82441B939537034D99E095"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>This section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="HD3497F812D8B40339A422A4AE812A774"><enum>202.</enum><header>Qualifying longevity annuity contracts</header><subsection id="H707D7965771542BF927774E9DA04D29D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the date which is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s delegate (hereafter in this section referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) shall amend the regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury relating to <quote>Longevity Annuity Contracts</quote> (79 Fed. Reg. 37633 (July 2, 2014)), as follows:</text><paragraph id="H0E4979C9276E43989707E1AAC71C8910"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal 25-percent premium limit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall amend Q&A–17(b)(3) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 and Q&A–12(b)(3) of Treasury Regulation section 1.408–8 to eliminate the requirement that premiums for qualifying longevity annuity contracts be limited to a percentage of an individual’s account balance, and to make such corresponding changes to the regulations and related forms as are necessary to reflect the elimination of this requirement.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HFE57A53CFCFD479ABC520391C8EF737E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Facilitate joint and survivor benefits</header><text>The Secretary shall amend Q&A–17(c) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6, and make such corresponding changes to the regulations and related forms as are necessary, to provide that, in the case of a qualifying longevity annuity contract which was purchased with joint and survivor annuity benefits for the individual and the individual's spouse which were permissible under the regulations at the time the contract was originally purchased, a divorce occurring after the original purchase and before the annuity payments commence under the contract will not affect the permissibility of the joint and survivor annuity benefits or other benefits under the contract, or require any adjustment to the amount or duration of benefits payable under the contract, provided that any qualified domestic relations order (within the meaning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">section 414(p)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) or any divorce or separation instrument (as defined in subsection (b))—</text><subparagraph id="HCB7108B5B87C472DB0A2871FCE19499B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provides that the former spouse is entitled to the survivor benefits under the contract;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA03A44C29B374F0085E91FA1F2725D96"><enum>(B)</enum><text>does not modify the treatment of the former spouse as the beneficiary under the contract who is entitled to the survivor benefits; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2AF98F35421C49188BDDF30FD936417A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>does not modify the treatment of the former spouse as the measuring life for the survivor benefits under the contract.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H44B324DC7D904ED49DA5DD739FA12410"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Permit short free look period</header><text>The Secretary shall amend Q&A–17(a)(4) of Treasury Regulation section 1.401(a)(9)–6 to ensure that such Q&A does not preclude a contract from including a provision under which an employee may rescind the purchase of the contract within a period not exceeding 90 days from the date of purchase.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H98D39187FC4541E29D1E758FA99CFD5E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Divorce or separation instrument</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subsection (a)(2), the term <term>divorce or separation instrument</term> means—</text><paragraph id="HBB7041356E9D4D9FAFEC957F3891E255"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a decree of divorce or separate maintenance or a written instrument incident to such a decree,</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HD85D7940480542F08B3CE6079678D172"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a written separation agreement, or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF931F140515243D785479C42199EB48E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a decree (not described in paragraph (1)) requiring a spouse to make payments for the support or maintenance of the other spouse.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H34AE52C6369F46248A5B4207E1A9D1C9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective dates, enforcement, and interpretations</header><paragraph id="H6793961B718743A79DE4F31A74497004"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective dates</header><subparagraph id="HC4142687CD58452EAE62E6DA5A910605"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Paragraph (1) of subsection (a) shall be effective with respect to contracts purchased or received in an exchange on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H314CAA9E08524B6680034FD227E99618"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) shall be effective with respect to contracts purchased or received in an exchange on or after July 2, 2014.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4A39AB6ACC5847A798890F50AEA5DC29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Enforcement and interpretations</header><text>Prior to the date on which the Secretary issues final regulations pursuant to subsection (a)—</text><subparagraph id="H0622278C5DE24C20B6959E58C8C206A6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Secretary (or delegate) shall administer and enforce the law in accordance with subsection (a) and the effective dates in paragraph (1) of this subsection; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45B00249A1A5476A811860F7F840E8A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>taxpayers may rely upon their reasonable good faith interpretations of subsection (a).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H4E61B423B3774711977988868A6DCEC5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header>Insurance-dedicated exchange-traded funds</header><subsection id="H14421F5A89B343E7BAFEA5A0F3B7CE0F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than the date which is 7 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall amend the regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury relating to <quote>Income Tax; Diversification Requirements for Variable Annuity, Endowment, and Life Insurance Contracts</quote>, 54 Fed. Reg. 8728 (March 2, 1989), and make any necessary corresponding amendments to other regulations, in order to facilitate the use of exchange-traded funds as investment options under variable contracts within the meaning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/817">section 817(d)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of this section.</text></subsection><subsection id="H8A2A0A53687B4F5591AF637D1E56CAE3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Designate certain authorized participants and market makers as eligible investors</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall amend Treas. Reg. section 1.817–5(f)(3) to provide that satisfaction of the requirements in Treas. Reg. section 1.817–5(f)(2)(i) with respect to an exchange-traded fund shall not be prevented by reason of beneficial interests in such a fund being held by 1 or more authorized participants or market makers.</text></subsection><subsection id="H858DF39D64E046059F6E17CFEC5790D5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Define relevant terms</header><text>In amending Treas. Reg. section 1.817–5(f)(3) in accordance with subsections (b) of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall provide definitions consistent with the following:</text><paragraph id="H3FBA9E438E1A4B539E6B5569CF4E7A8C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Exchange-traded fund</header><text>The term <term>exchange-traded fund</term> means a regulated investment company, partnership, or trust—</text><subparagraph id="HA885FFC9FC164D30A0BD41F6D6C19490"><enum>(A)</enum><text>that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an open-end investment company or a unit investment trust;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2186946784974FC4A3D2668FF578EF0F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the shares of which can be purchased or redeemed directly from the fund only by an authorized participant; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF609C893C9904870B6986763D8000CA4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the shares of which are traded throughout the day on a national stock exchange at market prices that may or may not be the same as the net asset value of the shares.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5FF1F64538B84C9EB1BC0B40F55773A4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorized participant</header><text>The term <term>authorized participant</term> means a financial institution that is a member or participant of a clearing agency registered under section 17A(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that enters into a contractual relationship with an exchange-traded fund pursuant to which the financial institution is permitted to purchase and redeem shares directly from the fund and to sell such shares to third parties, but only if the contractual arrangement or applicable law precludes the financial institution from—</text><subparagraph id="HA30CD4350084440085C0DC68F16DDE26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>purchasing the shares for its own investment purposes rather than for the exclusive purpose of creating and redeeming such shares on behalf of third parties; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H92ABEBD121D14483B46A033BF0A40469"><enum>(B)</enum><text>selling the shares to third parties who are not market makers or otherwise described in Treas. Reg. section 1.817–5(f) (1) and (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H044CFC2CA40F4F8EA6025762292B3C10"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Market maker</header><text>The term <term>market maker</term> means a financial institution that is a registered broker or dealer under section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that maintains liquidity for an exchange-traded fund on a national stock exchange by being always ready to buy and sell shares of such fund on the market, but only if the financial institution is contractually or legally precluded from selling or buying such shares to or from persons who are not authorized participants or otherwise described in Treas. Reg. section 1.817–5(f) (2) and (3).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1E2E7FAB1DBC4E5BB4BE5280BC26BF47"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Subsections (b) and (c) shall apply to segregated asset account investments made on or after the date that is 7 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Simplification and Clarification of Retirement Plan Rules</header><section id="HB23C411EF1674B7AB10A32ED82C404F5"><enum>301.</enum><header>Recovery of retirement plan overpayments</header><subsection id="H97B4AFA051F245CA8954CE0B634E91A6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Overpayments under Internal Revenue Code of <enum-in-header>1986</enum-in-header></header><paragraph id="H3C074CF9355D42D594211668627F47AB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Qualification requirements</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3798675328514EC49412A1E97CFF747D" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="H81019B2C6C4C4D6DA3A216A89EEEEA8E"><enum>(bb)</enum><header>Special rules applicable to benefit overpayments</header><paragraph id="H3DE02B76F7F449348B1301091FDC6E65"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A plan shall not fail to be treated as described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 219(g)(5)(A) (and shall not fail to be treated as satisfying the requirements of section 401(a) or 403) merely because—</text><subparagraph id="H8CFA4BD8928042C1B36AC6EB346C9214"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the plan fails to obtain payment from any participant, beneficiary, employer, plan sponsor, fiduciary, or other party on account of any inadvertent benefit overpayment made by the plan, or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD9F1A40053C44F07BAE46F0647AB44E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the plan sponsor amends the plan to increase past or future benefit payments to affected participants and beneficiaries in order to adjust for prior inadvertent benefit overpayments.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1A7E65B262DF46F0990330649E0A94D2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reduction in future benefit payments and recovery from responsible party</header><text>Paragraph (1) shall not fail to apply to a plan merely because, after discovering a benefit overpayment, such plan—</text><subparagraph id="HA623879C4D424C3CBF165952597B1C3F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reduces future benefit payments to the correct amount provided for under the terms of the plan, or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF51658DB2ACB47FF92C1177F5DAF2AA6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>seeks recovery from the person or persons responsible for such overpayment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9B43224B0D874F3284F481F285FD157F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Employer funding obligations</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall relieve an employer of any obligation imposed on it to make contributions to a plan to meet the minimum funding standards under sections 412 and 430 or to prevent or restore an impermissible forfeiture in accordance with section 411.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H8B1C011CF94942ED935CEEA2FAF430FB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Observance of benefit limitations</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a plan to which paragraph (1) applies shall observe any limitations imposed on it by section 401(a)(17) or 415. The plan may enforce such limitations using any method approved by the Secretary for recouping benefits previously paid or allocations previously made in excess of such limitations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9BA2E54635E14E9A87E0D7633AE6AE91"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Coordination with other qualification requirements</header><text>The Secretary may issue regulations or other guidance of general applicability specifying how benefit overpayments and their recoupment or non-recoupment from a participant or beneficiary shall be taken into account for purposes of satisfying any requirement applicable to a plan to which paragraph (1) applies.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H83202E5520DB455DADB1A6B76A14A5A7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rollovers</header><text>Section 402(c) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block id="H37CAB68DFA764E86903C8598AE5651BC" style="OLC"><paragraph id="HB99396DBF27241EF9B79ECBC0DCC60D0"><enum>(12)</enum><text>In the case of an inadvertent benefit overpayment from a plan to which section 414(bb)(1) applies which is transferred to an eligible retirement plan by or on behalf of a participant or beneficiary—</text><subparagraph id="H2D0A5C0945FC4C21B7BCBED24BF8C7A5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the portion of such overpayment with respect to which recoupment is not sought on behalf of the plan shall be treated as having been paid in an eligible rollover distribution if the payment would have been an eligible rollover distribution but for being an overpayment, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H161FED1D8842427CA581F082CAB2320F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the portion of such overpayment with respect to which recoupment is sought on behalf of the plan shall be permitted to be returned to such plan and in such case shall be treated as an eligible rollover distribution transferred to such plan by the participant or beneficiary who received such overpayment (and the plans making and receiving such transfer shall be treated as permitting such transfer).</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">In any case in which recoupment is sought on behalf of the plan but is disputed by the participant or beneficiary who received such overpayment, such dispute shall be subject to the claims and appeals procedures of the plan that made such overpayment, such plan shall notify the plan receiving the rollover of such dispute, and the plan receiving the rollover shall retain such overpayment on behalf of the participant or beneficiary (and shall be entitled to treat such overpayment as plan assets) pending the outcome of such procedures.</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC8325BA317284D60BBBC7EBF49D03131"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Overpayments under ERISA</header><text>Section 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1056">29 U.S.C. 1056</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block id="H4F5CF255BD044CEB864D5D55A8A56C82" style="OLC"><subsection id="H49ECFEE6936741B19C51005C57008D41"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Special rules applicable to benefit overpayments</header><paragraph id="H7102F34B268B4E52B5BA02AB626EC60C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>General rule</header><text>In the case of an inadvertent benefit overpayment by any pension plan, the responsible plan fiduciary shall not be considered to have failed to comply with the requirements of this title merely because such fiduciary determines, in the exercise of its fiduciary discretion, not to seek recovery of all or part of such overpayment from—</text><subparagraph id="HAF447CFA3CE3440BB333C0BCE0F1D6CE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any participant or beneficiary,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA76DE3DA563247FFBB25FAC4F1F7BA66"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any plan sponsor of, or contributing employer to—</text><clause id="H64CA7D6C017B42E48DF93FEE14F46DF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an individual account plan, provided that the amount needed to prevent or restore any impermissible forfeiture from any participant’s or beneficiary’s account arising in connection with the overpayment is, separately from and independently of the overpayment, allocated to such account pursuant to the nonforfeitability requirements of section 203 (for example, out of the plan’s forfeiture account, additional employer contributions, or recoveries from those responsible for the overpayment), or</text></clause><clause id="H3F02178083FD41BFA8896AF17C49666F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a defined benefit pension plan subject to the funding rules in part 3 of this subtitle B, unless the responsible plan fiduciary determines, in the exercise of its fiduciary discretion, that failure to recover all or part of the overpayment faster than required under such funding rules would materially affect the plan’s ability to pay benefits due to other participants and beneficiaries, or</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H90592AB87C494765813EBC781CE40A96"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any fiduciary of the plan, other than a fiduciary (including a plan sponsor or contributing employer acting in a fiduciary capacity) whose breach of its fiduciary duties resulted in such overpayment, provided that if the plan has established prudent procedures to prevent and minimize overpayment of benefits and the relevant plan fiduciaries have followed such procedures, an inadvertent benefit overpayment will not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H381E02031B5E480A9E8B22379F4A169A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reduction in future benefit payments and recovery from responsible party</header><text>Paragraph (1) shall not fail to apply with respect to any inadvertent benefit overpayment merely because, after discovering such overpayment, the responsible plan fiduciary—</text><subparagraph id="HA0B46E114B714027B3DE28D28C8B3EBF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reduces future benefit payments to the correct amount provided for under the terms of the plan, or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3BDA3331589E405B9995AE09E5745EF1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>seeks recovery from the person or persons responsible for the overpayment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF3D7B853CBCF4568957C5E7DB5900D20"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Employer funding obligations</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall relieve an employer of any obligation imposed on it to make contributions to a plan to meet the minimum funding standards under part 3 of this subtitle B or to prevent or restore an impermissible forfeiture in accordance with section 203.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3148C531623D4F039C8897B6869870CD"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Recoupment from participants and beneficiaries</header><text>If the responsible plan fiduciary, in the exercise of its fiduciary discretion, decides to seek recoupment from a participant or beneficiary of all or part of an inadvertent benefit overpayment made by the plan to such participant or beneficiary, it may do so, subject to the following conditions:</text><subparagraph id="HE0433AC18F034EBAB5DAA4417DA0A985"><enum>(A)</enum><text>No interest or other additional amounts (such as collection costs or fees) are sought on overpaid amounts.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H62C9293805A6476884F7935F629267A0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>If the plan seeks to recoup past overpayments of a non-decreasing periodic benefit by reducing future benefit payments—</text><clause id="H674EBE6BC14A4B74A85C123C6735B3B3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the reduction ceases after the plan has recovered the full dollar amount of the overpayment,</text></clause><clause id="HED47EA01B0A14C418847D4865775305F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the amount recouped each calendar year does not exceed 10 percent of the full dollar amount of the overpayment, and</text></clause><clause id="H93D7AD813653468BB97E3ACF7EFB1BB8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>future benefit payments are not reduced to below 90 percent of the periodic amount otherwise payable under the terms of the plan.</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">Alternatively, if the plan seeks to recoup past overpayments of a non-decreasing periodic benefit through one or more installment payments, the sum of such installment payments in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of the reductions that would be permitted in such year under the preceding sentence. </continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCDED4027BC9F4996BC1B79758A22588A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>If the plan seeks to recoup past overpayments of a benefit other than a non-decreasing periodic benefit, the plan satisfies requirements developed by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of this subparagraph.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEDCF87CA39154AF2A573948C0EF5FD9D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Efforts to recoup overpayments are not made through a collection agency or similar third party and such efforts are not accompanied by threats of litigation, unless the responsible plan fiduciary reasonably believes it could prevail in a civil action brought in Federal or State court to recoup the overpayments.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H710050442FA04564B7A8EAFE5B0BC6F3"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Recoupment of past overpayments to a participant is not sought from any beneficiary of the participant, including a spouse, surviving spouse, former spouse, or other beneficiary.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H01C29AA9C4C143068A9D7A2575ADFEB4"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Recoupment may not be sought if the first overpayment occurred more than 3 years before the participant or beneficiary is first notified in writing of the error.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE253016E84BC41C2870F90A8581ACA3E"><enum>(G)</enum><text>A participant or beneficiary from whom recoupment is sought is entitled to contest all or part of the recoupment pursuant to the plan’s claims and appeals procedures.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H33B2B3DAAFE6443AA8385986F8467EBC"><enum>(H)</enum><text>In determining the amount of recoupment to seek, the responsible plan fiduciary may take into account the hardship that recoupment likely would impose on the participant or beneficiary.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4AF9DEA7E47740349545806C22DAA22A"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Effect of culpability</header><text>Subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph (4) shall not apply to protect a participant or beneficiary who is culpable. For purposes of this paragraph, a participant or beneficiary is culpable if the individual bears responsibility for the overpayment (such as through misrepresentations or omissions that led to the overpayment), or if the individual knew, or had good reason to know under the circumstances, that the benefit payment or payments were materially in excess of the correct amount. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, an individual is not culpable merely because the individual believed the benefit payment or payments were or might be in excess of the correct amount, if the individual raised that question with an authorized plan representative and was told the payment or payments were not in excess of the correct amount. With respect to a culpable participant or beneficiary, efforts to recoup overpayments shall not be made through threats of litigation, unless a lawyer for the plan could make the representations required under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure if the litigation were brought in Federal court.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HF4F88C887D6A4205A4F5838E97818FC9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply as of the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection><subsection id="H27CEA45F2CEA46C1A205EB2F770B4074"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Certain actions before date of enactment</header><text>Plans, fiduciaries, employers, and plan sponsors are entitled to rely on—</text><paragraph id="HD1B2C8B7DD5942B6BDF8A80B42D81FCA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a good faith interpretation of then existing administrative guidance for inadvertent benefit overpayment recoupments and recoveries that commenced before the date of enactment of this Act, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HBB44AFB04B464E2B87902FEB63859865"><enum>(2)</enum><text>determinations made before such date of enactment by the responsible plan fiduciary, in the exercise of its fiduciary discretion, not to seek recoupment or recovery of all or part of an inadvertent benefit overpayment.</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">In the case of a benefit overpayment that occurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act, any installment payments by the participant or beneficiary to the plan or any reduction in periodic benefit payments to the participant or beneficiary, which were made in recoupment of such overpayment and which commenced prior to such date, may continue after such date. Nothing in this subsection shall relieve a fiduciary from responsibility for an overpayment that resulted from a breach of its fiduciary duties. </continuation-text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FE159FCA4734536B8330C9D2A62FCA4"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reduction in excise tax on certain accumulations in qualified retirement plans</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0ED6CEAD070C48D09EEE9C99902A60B1"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/4974">Section 4974(a)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>50 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>25 percent</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H731F9A01F0624ECCB4243585725ED091"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reduction in excise tax on failures To take required minimum distributions</header><text>Section 4974 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDAFF9E5F36B24103A027EBD6D832C8BE" style="OLC"><subsection id="HC4804551171E462F9F4195D6A15FDAA5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Reduction of tax in certain cases</header><paragraph id="H8EEFB319EC664FB2ADE6BF23AB41407B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reduction</header><text>In the case of a taxpayer who—</text><subparagraph id="HDD46177F3A03410CB3B21AA9CB9D71F4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>corrects, during the correction window, a shortfall of distributions from an individual retirement plan which resulted in imposition of a tax under subsection (a), and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE9D7DC55547044D6A925334392E764CF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>submits a return, during the correction window, reflecting such tax (as modified by this subsection),</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">the first sentence of subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting <term>10 percent</term> for <term>25 percent</term>. </continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB8CE6D94783545F1AFED9F1B8F16B9CD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Correction window</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>correction window</term> means the period of time beginning on the date on which the tax under subsection (a) is imposed with respect to a shortfall of distributions from an individual retirement plan, and ending on the earlier of—</text><subparagraph id="H8979A577F9AC48E9AE723572D8671E78"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the date on which the Secretary initiates an audit, or otherwise demands payment, with respect to the shortfall of distributions, or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5BD28CB9BC194A76BEF75F970A7282B3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the last day of the second taxable year that begins after the end of the taxable year in which the tax under subsection (a) is imposed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBEC021F8C32D411994BB973A32BAFBFC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H7794A173385B40518788BD870DF66A09"><enum>303.</enum><header>Performance benchmarks for asset allocation funds</header><subsection id="H44887F26AFC34985829616041F3692F5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall modify the regulations under section 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1104">29 U.S.C. 1104</external-xref>) to provide that, in the case of a designated investment alternative which contains a mix of asset classes, a plan administrator may, but is not required to, use a benchmark which is a blend of different broad-based securities market indices if—</text><paragraph id="HA12D218BAD7C416C9798CB40F7357C97"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the blend is reasonably representative of the asset class holdings of the designated investment alternative;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HCA484336934E4A938202AA72E521F7B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for purposes of determining the blend’s returns for 1-, 5-, and 10-calendar-year periods (or for the life of the alternative, if shorter), the blend is modified at least once per year to reflect changes in the asset class holdings of the designated investment alternative;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HA284796567224807A416D03C335F933F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the blend is furnished to participants and beneficiaries in a manner that is reasonably designed to be understandable and helpful; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H557C2E3F2628431C9E84A656DD7B4190"><enum>(4)</enum><text>each securities market index which is used for an associated asset class would separately satisfy the requirements of such regulations for such asset class.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H74733C9C0D814B8EBC22D5041C994F78"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2022, the Secretary of Labor (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall deliver a report to the Committees on Ways and Means and Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate regarding the effectiveness of the benchmarking requirements under section 2550.404a–5 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subsection></section><section id="H4AC4651133DD42ECA1662E6ECF201F5B"><enum>304.</enum><header>Review and report to the Congress relating to reporting and disclosure requirements</header><subsection id="H8039F9C48D4B44388F6B054F3B2FD2ED"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>As soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation shall review the reporting and disclosure requirements of—</text><paragraph id="HD61D529C9DB649A78ADF40060AC71D7F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 applicable to pension plans (as defined in section 3(2) of such Act); and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3BEC9E5095B146F38031B688A1F16C7B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applicable to qualified retirement plans (as defined in section 4974(c) of such Code without regard to paragraphs (4) and (5) thereof).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6810A0C1070F4B5BB76947ADD89C35E2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, jointly, and after consultation with a balanced group of participant and employer representatives, shall with respect to plans referenced in subsection (a) report on the effectiveness of the applicable reporting and disclosure requirements and make such recommendations as may be appropriate to the appropriate committees of the Congress to consolidate, simplify, standardize, and improve such requirements so as to simplify reporting for such plans and ensure that plans can simply furnish and participants and beneficiaries timely receive and better understand the information they need to monitor their plans, plan for retirement, and obtain the benefits they have earned. Such report shall assess the extent to which retirement plans are retaining disclosures, work records, and plan documents that are needed to ensure accurate calculation of future benefits. To assess the effectiveness of the applicable reporting and disclosure requirements, the report shall include an analysis, based on plan data, of how participants and beneficiaries are providing preferred contact information, the methods by which plan sponsors and plans are furnishing disclosures, and the rate at which participants and beneficiaries (grouped by key demographics) are receiving, accessing, and retaining disclosures. The agencies shall conduct appropriate surveys and data collection to obtain any needed information. </text></subsection></section><section id="HE4486259DD634992A2F001668EA7B3C3"><enum>305.</enum><header>Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants</header><subsection id="H46B9E740966F44FD8522535E7016932A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amendment of Internal Revenue Code of 1986</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8A98A8EF1E54275BED06B176B968402" style="OLC"><subsection id="H1B588B9D328C4B49B10595583F6B9121"><enum>(cc)</enum><header>Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants</header><paragraph id="H5230CD70183D4D1DB1E1C6992CF44CAE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, with respect to any defined contribution plan, no disclosure, notice, or other plan document (other than the notices and documents described in subparagraphs (A) and (B)) shall be required to be furnished under this title to any unenrolled participant if the unenrolled participant receives—</text><subparagraph id="H8DEF5AE72CF74CC5AAF8BF4CB4FA36FF"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an annual reminder notice (in paper format, or in any electronic format consented to by the participant) of such participant’s eligibility to participate in such plan and any applicable election deadlines under the plan, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7FF5C58516D84DEEBD9C13E7095FC2A6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any document requested by such participant which the participant would be entitled to receive without regard to this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC6BDDE8792EF48D78C36196A82CA3665"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Unenrolled participant</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>unenrolled participant</term> means an employee who—</text><subparagraph id="H2AF27D6FC7024DF2B893D5071385C7EA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is eligible to participate in a defined contribution plan,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H833F1D55989B46189F41FCF7967B6F9E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has received all required notices, disclosures, and other plan documents required to be furnished under this title and the summary plan description as provided in section 104(b) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 in connection with such participant’s initial eligibility to participate in such plan,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD0E1DEF616024A8BBDD8E0B983633B9F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is not participating in such plan, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H45B49CFADEC74A0A984196145CB2181D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>does not have a balance in the plan.</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">For purposes of this subsection, any eligibility to participate in the plan following any period for which such employee was not eligible to participate shall be treated as initial eligibility. </continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="HE008732456D74D2196F27A199A370799"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Annual reminder notice</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>annual reminder notice</term> means the notice described in section 111(c) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HE6285CE651744827A13BF3D4F14FA995"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974</header><paragraph id="HBF5518B47F214CA7BC92222C681E8ACB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Part 1 of subtitle B of subchapter I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is amended by redesignating section 111 as section 112 and by inserting after section 110 the following new section:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB07A74094602413697CE89F38BF8E668" style="OLC"><section id="H233B6182F03848FD8CC6551710C09445"><enum>111.</enum><header>Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants</header><subsection id="HE512F2D3AF0047779CE429B3C849AE31"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, with respect to any individual account plan, no disclosure, notice, or other plan document (other than the notices and documents described in paragraphs (1) and (2)) shall be required to be furnished under this title to any unenrolled participant if the unenrolled participant receives—</text><paragraph id="H6AD3C598AA29484A878EDFB2929B03D7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an annual reminder notice of such participant’s eligibility to participate in such plan and any applicable election deadlines under the plan; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H5012B75E25BD4DC0A4A6D4E347BABD85"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any document requested by such participant which the participant would be entitled to receive without regard to this section.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H706973482A594C16865900C3E4DDD7DC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Unenrolled participant</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>unenrolled participant</term> means an employee who—</text><paragraph id="HE5E6A631BC9F4299AB8067DE26D19FA4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>is eligible to participate in an individual account plan;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HDAE8C9628B1C4D34BF4CD90FC2E048A0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>has received all required notices, disclosures, and other plan documents, including the summary plan description, required to be furnished under this title in connection with such participant’s initial eligibility to participate in such plan;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H0E5F2AD0C95D4D4AB09C95968036F7CE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>is not participating in such plan; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H37A652723C97413A9E8B4FD713059791"><enum>(4)</enum><text>does not have a balance in the plan.</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">For purposes of this section, any eligibility to participate in the plan following any period for which such employee was not eligible to participate shall be treated as initial eligibility. </continuation-text></subsection><subsection id="HE27217AD81DC43E486E44AE277D38328"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual reminder notice</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>annual reminder notice</term> means a notice provided in accordance with section 2520.104b–1 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation), which—</text><paragraph id="H58FD8F9B41664BEBB1B25BEE67A1DBE1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>is furnished in connection with the annual open season election period with respect to the plan or, if there is no such period, is furnished within a reasonable period prior to the beginning of each plan year;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC3A130FE33EB409D9CD41DDB211930D5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>notifies the unenrolled participant of—</text><subparagraph id="H2CEABA3E5188441D99C5E4426BEDD5E0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the unenrolled participant’s eligibility to participate in the plan; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HABAACD7CA90147BD8D3DAB0D886D39B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the key benefits under the plan and the key rights and features under the plan affecting such benefits; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEB4F471164D0499F88FFB31AC7AD4B15"><enum>(3)</enum><text>provides such information in a prominent manner calculated to be understood by the average participant.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H4559B2358BEA425CBDF8F761D3D73918"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is amended by striking the item relating to section 111 and by inserting after the item relating to section 110 the following new items:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC545CF4838CE4EFCA802CB12D36013A8" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry idref="H233B6182F03848FD8CC6551710C09445" level="section">Sec. 111. Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants. </toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 112. Repeal and effective date.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3BBF8274CEC34B44B88FF0835ED1059C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H6CB25460290142738AF031B7413341C1"><enum>306.</enum><header>Retirement savings lost and found</header><subsection id="H6F59FAA61EB643B5B5C43F719BCF852F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><paragraph id="H34F9CCDB07A34778BE798913892ACF5D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><subparagraph id="HDC45215363E344E7A5174BDF02A3D6B8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation, shall establish an online searchable database (to be managed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in accordance with section 4051 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) to be known as the <quote>Retirement Savings Lost and Found</quote>. The Retirement Savings Lost and Found shall—</text><clause id="H40F29B686ADD4798859EC20C744C851A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>allow an individual to search for information that enables the individual to locate the plan administrator of any plans with respect to which the individual is or was a participant or beneficiary, and to provide contact information for the plan administrator of any plan described in subparagraph (B);</text></clause><clause id="H0550E6400FBA46198A704136DE98B44A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>allow the corporation to assist such an individual in locating any plan of the individual; and</text></clause><clause id="H7C179A7CB2684DA880BEE0E710527F2A" commented="no"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>allow the corporation to make any necessary changes to contact information on record for the plan administrator based on any changes to the plan due to merger or consolidation of the plan with any other plan, division of the plan into two or more plans, bankruptcy, termination, change in name of the plan, change in name or address of the plan administrator, or other causes.</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">The Retirement Savings Lost and Found established under this paragraph shall include information reported under section 4051 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other relevant information obtained by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. </continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF8F6ED6463824B229FDF502793330AF6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Plans described</header><text>A plan described in this subparagraph is a plan to which the vesting standards of section 203 of part 2 of subtitle B of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 apply.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA8961D7F0695421EB4492E875C04829B" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Retirement Savings Lost and Found established under paragraph (1) shall provide individuals described in paragraph (1)(A) only with the ability to view contact information for the plan administrator of any plan with respect to which the individual is or was a participant or beneficiary, sufficient to allow the individual to locate the individual’s plan in order to recover any benefit owing to the individual under the plan.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF1E90D672B784EB38799CB9DB7FB3ECD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Safeguarding participant privacy and security</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In establishing the Retirement Savings Lost and Found under paragraph (1), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce, shall take all necessary and proper precautions to ensure that individuals’ plan information maintained by the Retirement Savings Lost and Found is protected and that persons other than the individual cannot fraudulently claim the benefits to which any individual is entitled, and to allow any individual to opt out of inclusion in the Retirement Savings Lost and Found at the election of the individual.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H26FCCFC6EF2241E18A20DFE308F8A357"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><paragraph id="H4889676836AD41A8A3B1519B12948999" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle C of title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1341">29 U.S.C. 1341</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF5E54DF739A048C29FB989B094563908" display-inline="no-display-inline"><section id="HBD4A4D71A8304863AFE478379526B60D"><enum>4051.</enum><header>Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><subsection id="HFC3423A7ADF348F1AA6EA241CBB424C9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment; responsibilities of Office</header><paragraph id="H6C991E02C3F64E0DBFBC286E3B55343B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce shall establish within the corporation an Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found (in this section referred to as the <quote>Office</quote>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3029BBADFD324A2B8443F8C41CB6E40A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Responsibilities of Office</header><subparagraph id="HC9A9EA2B7D2040CE9D1526D27BB3FA7E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Office shall—</text><clause id="H40BE2A890CE54A1B880B1DC6185AA5BF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>carry out subsection (b) of this section;</text></clause><clause id="HC3673CDF8965445984A8B85CB3D843C5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintain the Retirement Savings Lost and Found established under section 306(a) of the <quote><short-title>Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021</short-title></quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="H6EA67559D16648C893B9FD50D78413F4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">perform an annual audit of plan information contained in the Retirement Savings Lost and Found and ensure that such information is current and accurate.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H59D1D17633584653AEA59669C7BCD5A4" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Option to contract</header><clause id="H69EED597620A40F1A7B1B0B09A006D45"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, the corporation shall conduct an analysis of the cost effectiveness of contracting with a third party to carry out the responsibilities under subparagraph (A)(iii) and, upon a determination that such contracting would be more cost effective than carrying out such responsibilities within the Office, the corporation may enter into such contracts as merited by such analysis.</text></clause><clause id="H812A425066164DE494751258C16721C0"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The corporation shall report on the results of the analysis under clause (i) to the Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committees on Ways and Means and Education and Labor of the House of Representatives.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H745C72CD59FB44F8A1A5FAD2B62E2279"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certain non-Responsive participants entitled to small benefits</header><paragraph id="HBF87F0450A0D47CE8281F8532A13A449"><enum>(1)</enum><header>General rule</header><subparagraph id="H94ABAFE123C74D28A62535E2DB5939C9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Transfer to the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administrator of a plan that is not terminated and to which <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401(a)(31)(B)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applies shall transfer to the Office the amount required to be transferred under section 401(a)(31)(B)(iv) of such Code for a non-responsive participant.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF4A826EEC066485BB82753FDC3504765"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Information and payment to the Office</header><text>Upon making a transfer under subparagraph (A), the plan administrator shall provide such information and certifications as the Office shall specify, including with respect to the transferred amount and the non-responsive participant.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD53A303A4ADE42BC9D978D1B771EBBDC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Information requirements after transfer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the event that, after a transfer is made under subparagraph (A), the relevant non-responsive participant contacts the plan administrator or the plan administrator discovers information that may assist the Office in locating the non-responsive participant, the plan administrator shall notify and provide such information as the Office shall specify to the Office.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9561E17307B24796B9B5F738470F920C"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Search and payment by the Office following transfer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall periodically, and upon receiving information described in subparagraph (C), conduct a search for the non-responsive participant for whom the Office has received a transfer under subparagraph (A). Upon location of a non-responsive participant who claims benefits, the Office shall make a single payment to the non-responsive participant in an amount equal to the sum of—</text><clause id="H82004E0F432C4251808C9B0AD11D1052"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount transferred to the Office under subparagraph (A) for such participant; and</text></clause><clause id="H408392F5122F4478940C46DA08CD175D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the return on the investment attributable to such amount under section 4005(j)(3). </text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8C2CF96A968847E787EF7E86A610689A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>non-responsive participant</quote> means a participant or beneficiary of a plan described in paragraph (1)(A)—</text><subparagraph id="HA2A108725B4D4DB0B28E80EF7C9B10E5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who is entitled to a benefit subject to a mandatory transfer under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401(a)(31)(B)(iii)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H194DD4CD785544208B44FA27D9167A40"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for whom the plan has satisfied the conditions in section 401(a)(31)(B)(iv) of such Code.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8B19F789D555470D80C1F5E9D8A9DC18"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Regulatory Authority</header><text>The Office shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, including rules relating to the amount payable to the Office and the amount to be paid by the Office.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2E57E5C904004876B3CCC3523443FCA1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Information collection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Within such period after the end of a plan year as the Office may by regulations prescribe, the administrator of a plan to which the vesting standards of section 203 apply shall submit the following information, and such other information as the corporation may require, to the corporation in such form as the corporation may require:</text><paragraph id="HA32A47CBB22E44BDB6A9C5F4090357CB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The information described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6057">section 6057(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H0AEFF3CD212F4AE0BA5C09EEB358C546"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The information described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (E), and (F) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6057">section 6057(a)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9BC41C4B120B4CDF9B34606883EBB074"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirements of subsections (b) and (c) shall apply with respect to plan years beginning after the second December 31 occurring after the date of the enactment of this section.</text></subsection><subsection id="H95E11C63BEBB46F19D9355ECC709436E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H9DD6A736046643F483F9E6E9C62C5A4A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Establishment of fund for transferred assets</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4005 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1305">29 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H390CDB0BC8B14C5C96F706AD8ABB31B2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="HF960FC51CAB9455EB5DC7C7530E49120"><enum>(j)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC77502A8162848FCA0C05C1AFD2F8D18"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A ninth fund shall be established for the payment of benefits under section 4051(b)(1)(D). </text></paragraph><paragraph id="H585AFBD4A5AA476D8D3D1C31BB1F4E41" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Such fund shall be credited with the appropriate—</text><subparagraph id="H5708352CC7C34021B229916A57E52EFC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">amounts transferred to the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found under section 4051(b)(1)(A); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDD337E991D5A43AAAE1F1D7E183B500D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>earnings on investments of the fund or on assets credited to the fund.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCEA861ED0CFD4507B95E9FD41B2FD8CA" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever the corporation determines that the moneys of any fund are in excess of current needs, it may request the investment of such amounts as it determines advisable by the Secretary of the Treasury in obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="HD74D8E041F144FB992493AE0CFF91529"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1001">29 U.S.C. 1001</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by inserting after the matter relating to section 4050 the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H4FFDD7FA8D5741ADAF48371504C7FD66" display-inline="no-display-inline"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry level="section">Sec. 4051. Certain non-responsive participants entitled to small benefits.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7052B6B2B6D847A5888656CFD74EF734"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Mandatory transfers of rollover distributions</header><paragraph id="HFCCC18A0D6D24A2C801AA31F17532F27" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Investment options</header><subparagraph id="H8EAAC793F5D645BD9D78BA4466AD3C6C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraph (B) of section 404(c)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1104">29 U.S.C. 1104(c)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting “, and, to the extent the Secretary provides in guidance or regulations issued after the enactment of the <short-title>Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021</short-title>, is made to—</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H872E838D07F94F19BCED995934D33502" style="OLC"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H99528415823C4B55A0CC9EAE63BE0B92"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a target date or life cycle fund held under such account;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32F078B852324F27B3909B11194C72D4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>as described in section 2550.404a–2 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, an investment product held under such account designed to preserve principal and provide a reasonable rate of return;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC7ADE0DD8B384ECEB75534EB0D0D8221"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found in accordance with <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">section 401(a)(31)(B)(iv)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and section 306(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2020; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4FEE8C26796C4AF888B8A9575F4A5817"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such other option as the Secretary may so provide.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8CC835E3473244FAB7AE70A6CADC3CF1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall promulgate regulations identifying the target date or life cycle funds, or specifying the characteristics of such a fund, that will be deemed to meet the requirements of section 404(c)(3)(B)(i) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1104">29 U.S.C. 1104(c)(3)(B)</external-xref>), as amended by subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9E3129C4630B4838A5E73B8673C9B262"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expansion of cap; authority to transfer lesser amounts</header><subparagraph id="H9306E667B3CB44AE9AEA3662F6C2DF6C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Cap</header><text>Sections <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">401(a)(31)(B)(ii)</external-xref> and <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/411">411(a)(11)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and section 203(e)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 are each amended by striking <quote>$5,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$6,000</quote>.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8176DD6294E247C48F544698310ED42B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Distribution of larger amounts to individual retirement plans only</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 401(a)(31)(B)(i) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found established by Section 306 of the Securing a Strong Retirement Act shall not be treated as a trustee or issuer that is eligible to receive such distributions.</quote>.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H497B467A23614DD7B8E9426DFC5B6056"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Lesser amounts</header><text>Section 401(a)(31)(B) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new clauses:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D5FCFC0C2D649F2BFCE6112EA362B3C" style="OLC"><clause id="HE8B614C53C9F46D185E0BB7C681506F8"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Treatment of lesser amounts</header><text>In the case of a trust which is part of an eligible plan, such trust shall not be a qualified trust under this section unless such plan provides that, if a participant in the plan separates from the service covered by the plan and the nonforfeitable accrued benefit described in clause (ii) is not in excess of $1,000, the plan administrator shall (either separately or as part of the notice under section 402(f)) notify the participant that the participant is entitled to such benefit or attempt to pay the benefit directly to the participant.</text></clause><clause id="HB6F659EDC25645579628A67553CEE551"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Transfers to Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><text>If, after a plan administrator takes the action required under clause (iii), the participant does not—</text><subclause id="H1012803ADC4C4F6083078E24D213CE02"><enum>(I)</enum><text>within 6 months of the notification under such clause, make an election under subparagraph (A) or elect to receive a distribution of the benefit directly, or</text></subclause><subclause id="HD1D3D8B4581246D5AB939EE08312AEE1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>accept any direct payment made under such clause within 6 months of the attempted payment,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">the plan administrator shall transfer the amount of such benefit to the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found in accordance with section 4051(b) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. </continuation-text></clause><clause id="H50393745D87B4C92B8757DB5782D9B04"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Income tax treatment of transfers to Retirement Savings Lost and Found</header><text>For purposes of determining the income tax treatment of transfers to the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found under clause (iv)—</text><subclause id="H767F5219220A4D10962D5FF009647A67"><enum>(I)</enum><text>such a transfer shall be treated as a transfer to an individual retirement plan under clause (i), and</text></subclause><subclause id="H8AA5175CEB7C4D6FBA1B7C49EDDC2ADA"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the distribution of such amounts by the Office of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found shall be treated as a distribution from an individual retirement plan.</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H610F3FD80E3449BB863441D85D218C5D"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this paragraph shall apply to vested benefits with respect to participants who separate from service connected to the plan in plan years beginning after the second December 31 occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9EE2F27D70E4485C93284B303C256E06"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Better reporting for mandatory transfers</header><paragraph id="HBBF8DBD5A77F404186CB8A22318FCC65"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (2) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6057">section 6057(a)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text><subparagraph id="H6E323497BACA4B4DBC3F6F9DAFFDCB79"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text><clause id="H315E1CB0BB3144E4BCB87C3EA2B07735"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>during such plan year</quote> in clause (i) and inserting <quote>during the plan year immediately preceding such plan year</quote>;</text></clause><clause id="H7EAEC391D11A46A98AE6B04AD36478AB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (i); and</text></clause><clause id="H0B34CBB4E1A84EF8B50D1336F1300C1D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking clause (iii);</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF51D18DF53184543BED40C326CE1124B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (G);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6F1D6B0D3B914E67BC691526144C2462"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (D); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H929464D5672347E1920F93049902F45B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraphs:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="H1973CD59279F4FA2B9F8719DC98B6C90" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H947546C5739C4322BE7172D91EE6993E"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the name and taxpayer identifying number of each participant or former participant in the plan—</text><clause id="HEC4770737B8A4C9AA9556FC8774AF885"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who, during the current plan year or any previous plan year, was reported under subparagraph (C), and with respect to whom the benefits described in subparagraph (C)(ii) were fully paid during the plan year,</text></clause><clause id="HC18CEA74E8A8486C9AB105D1F63DD3FE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>with respect to whom any amount was distributed under section 401(a)(31)(B) during the plan year, or</text></clause><clause id="HC93B513C417744309EE1DE06EB6ADD55"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>with respect to whom a deferred annuity contract was distributed during the plan year,</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7C0ABE7F6DC346A480EF1BF2217EEED3"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in the case of a participant or former participant to whom subparagraph (E) applies—</text><clause id="H38DD6C44D23B41CEAD9D3BA40BF6B154"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of a participant described in clause (ii) thereof, the name and address of the designated trustee or issuer described in section 401(a)(31)(B)(i) and the account number of the individual retirement plan to which the amount was distributed, and</text></clause><clause id="H0F231DEBE13844C98BBF2D48C484F44E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a participant described in clause (iii) thereof, the name and address of the issuer of such annuity contract and the contract or certificate number, and</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC53D316506704096ACECC5C83226EA60"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rules relating to direct trustee-to-trustee transfers</header><subparagraph id="HEFD2872528E14AC7A253329C0AC403B9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (6) of section 402(e) of such Code is amended—</text><clause id="H6A1A8D84917C40BE90440778B1B3B0A8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">transfers</header-in-text>.—Any</quote> and inserting “<header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">transfers</header-in-text>.—</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H051BC14DB5CB490A8F0C0308695785A6" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H3F0A5983D9284A9C86BB350FFEC35E8E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause id="H150C4E540E1544B49F8525BABD24DF77"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="HE910FAF02FCC4855B1A0B585E31F7826" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H0DF1F4BD2DA140738C573D832FA05297"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification of trustee</header><text>In the case of a distribution under section 401(a)(31)(B), the plan administrator shall notify the designated trustee or issuer described in clause (i) thereof that the transfer is a mandatory distribution required by such section.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCD0DE12309C84F5EB1CC20AA0A22D225"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>Subsection (i) of section 6652 of such Code is amended—</text><clause id="H4A1966D030CF4CCE96D21946627082C8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">to recipients</header-in-text></quote> in the heading and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">or notification</header-in-text></quote>;</text></clause><clause id="H7F4B9BD01C3D4F86A538E67A09AA0C56"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>402(f),</quote> and inserting <quote>402(f) or a notification as required by section 402(e)(6)(B),</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="H2AB947D0467C41B5A9F6297937F500ED"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>such written explanation</quote> and inserting <quote>such written explanation or notification</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1552245201F14C4999F79FDB1E8F1BCC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Subsection (i) of section 408 of such Code is amended—</text><clause id="H5DDF8A5715BE4BEA87140ACD2782C758"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and by moving such clauses 2 ems to the right;</text></clause><clause id="H7DF8F98E038C42318048576A18FEFDDA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and by moving such subparagraphs 2 ems to the right; and</text></clause><clause id="H35D59FCC631D4ED583DDA207AFECFA74"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>as the Secretary prescribes</quote> in subparagraph (B)(ii), as so redesignated, and all that follows through <quote>a simple retirement account</quote> and inserting “as the Secretary prescribes.</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H666611CE0FE14FF3928D762CA51677CE" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H00AF58FEBBBA43B2B7A1DE9B6387C9A2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Simple retirement accounts</header><text>In the case of a simple retirement account</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause id="HEA7CF4E209604879964BD0D51ACD28F2"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Reports</header-in-text>.—The trustee of</quote> and inserting “<header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Reports.—</header-in-text></text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA225FC6CF4B2419DB2E7FBF9AF5822E3" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H931937D2326844C3A77479ED1D47AD70"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The trustee of</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause><clause id="HB017BB61E75B44359D90266A902AAD22"><enum>(v)</enum><text>by striking <quote>under paragraph (2)</quote> in paragraph (3), as redesignated by clause (iii), and inserting <quote>under paragraph (1)(B)</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="H1CBD75150A8C457DA129D7599DA3E512"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1)(B)(ii), as redesignated by the preceding clauses, the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="H7B9FE545AA9E44CC807DB610E213D632" style="OLC"><paragraph id="HC81C65E167854C2B8DB5C464AD0D9F0E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mandatory distributions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an account, contract, or annuity to which a transfer under section 401(a)(31)(B) is made (including a transfer from the individual retirement plan to which the original transfer under such section was made to another individual retirement plan), the report required by this subsection for the year of the transfer and any year in which the information previously reported in subparagraph (B) changes shall—</text><subparagraph id="H01740F17607042D2ADD2B63B67CD136D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identify such transfer as a mandatory distribution required by such section,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4B3EF92FB4A14381802A74EA2C2B8D4E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>include the name, address, and taxpayer identifying number of the trustee or issuer of the individual retirement plan to which the amount is transferred, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC9D20782EEC44CD5ACB1C5FCE38E0FCD"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be filed with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation as well as with the Secretary.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HE96C3E8934F34D0DA633F60D27EF1BCE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notification of participants upon separation</header><text>Subsection (e) of section 6057 of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>, and, with respect to any benefit of the individual subject to section 401(a)(31)(B), a notice of availability of, and the contact information for, the Retirement Savings Lost and Found established under section 306(a)(1) of the <short-title>Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021</short-title></quote> before the period at the end of the second sentence.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H31BCBE2864584F36B3B6BD06108BE7A5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this paragraph shall apply to distributions made in, and returns and reports relating to, years beginning after the second December 31 occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF89B74CB013743A6A1A7CD818D5760F4"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Requirement of electronic filing</header><paragraph id="H8D26A501D7334DA2ADF4066B4DC6B09E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (2) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6011">section 6011(e)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text><subparagraph id="H2131AB132E184E23A0960F5619165C19"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and by moving such clauses 2 ems to the right;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD36B6CD35983437187061EB1C3B3A8E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">regulations</header-in-text>.—In prescribing</quote> and inserting “<header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">regulations</header-in-text>.—</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H692CD627820644A18AD49436E2BD4FB4" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H1C3DD7FA4ABF4A938D969F6749C9A30E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In prescribing</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3BE91D94EA67406D9CC76A2EE0FEE914"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block act-name="" id="H27016B5BB56C4D2C8BC81861FE60BD59" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H4EAD63BE7D27493084C6E614291BB717"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall require returns or reports required under—</text><clause id="HABCA177F2B9C40E2A36F00EC18E7F432"><enum>(i)</enum><text>sections 6057, 6058, and 6059, and</text></clause><clause id="H6CF53EE55EC3430E9491FC44455EACB4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>sections 408(i), 6041, and 6047 to the extent such return or report relates to the tax treatment of a distribution from a plan, account, contract, or annuity,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">to be filed on magnetic media, but only with respect to persons who are required to file at least 50 returns during the calendar year which includes the first day of the plan year to which such returns or reports relate.</continuation-text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H11CF861E860C414AB734F360A2DE6735"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this paragraph shall apply to returns and reports relating to years beginning after the second December 31 occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCE9F053D07804474B9FF301A7F3A2E8E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Rulemaking To clarify fiduciary duties</header><paragraph id="H7F2B4A9C11444A5D9FAED5996A1E531D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Request for information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall issue a request for information relating to the rulemaking described in paragraph (2).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9C60263245424E82A6F43213E92F051B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Issuance of final rule</header><text>Not later than 3 years after such date, the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall issue a final rule that defines the following:</text><subparagraph id="H01D1BE9046ED4720BA5A36EEB348E0E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The steps a plan sponsor must take to locate a deferred vested participant in order to meet its fiduciary duty under section 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to locating that participant.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3599B55741B74333B6EAFCEF1119FA70"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The ongoing practices and procedures a plan sponsor must institute in order to meet such fiduciary duty with respect to maintaining up-to-date contact information on deferred vested participants.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H441063A174FE45DA94EE89686ACA302D"><enum>307.</enum><header>Expansion of Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System</header><subsection id="HC1E51241820D481DB89E7E813CAF936B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s delegate (referred to in this section as the <quote>Secretary</quote>), any eligible inadvertent failure to comply with the rules applicable under section 401(a), 403(a), 403(b), 408(p), or 408(k) of such Code may be self-corrected under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (as described in Revenue Procedure 2019–19 or any successor guidance and hereafter in this section referred to as the <quote>EPCRS</quote>), except to the extent that such failure was identified by the Secretary prior to any actions which demonstrate a commitment to implement a self-correction. Revenue Procedure 2019–19 is deemed amended as of the date of the enactment of this Act to provide that the correction period under section 9.02 of such Revenue Procedure (or any successor guidance) for an eligible inadvertent failure, except as otherwise provided under such Code or in regulations prescribed by the Secretary, is indefinite and has no last day, other than with respect to failures identified by the Secretary prior to any self-correction as described in the preceding sentence.</text></subsection><subsection id="H2DAE259B51FD492F887442290A63613B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Loan errors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an eligible inadvertent failure relating to a loan from a plan to a participant—</text><paragraph id="HB2C1A12E931F468288BA7657D0B9B56B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>such failure may be self-corrected under subsection (a) according to the rules of section 6.07 of Revenue Procedure 2019–19 (or any successor guidance), including the provisions related to whether a deemed distribution must be reported on Form 1099–R, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HA850153C27814F22914C22C578F9075F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Secretary of Labor shall treat any such failure which is so self-corrected under subsection (a) as meeting the requirements of the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program of the Department of Labor if, with respect to the violation of the fiduciary standards of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, there is a similar loan error eligible for correction under EPCRS and the loan error is corrected in such manner.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB1C9551B7AA84FF99086AA375BB34A8A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>EPCRS for IRAs</header><text>The Secretary shall expand the EPCRS to allow custodians of individual retirement plans (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/7701">section 7701(a)(37)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) to address eligible inadvertent failures with respect to an individual retirement plan (as so defined), including (but not limited to)—</text><paragraph id="HB543465FA2F749E49194063AFF9F7A80"><enum>(1)</enum><text>waivers of the excise tax which would otherwise apply under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/4974">section 4974</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9799074D2407413AB48B42993855E6F8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>under the self-correction component of the EPCRS, waivers of the 60-day deadline for a rollover where the deadline is missed for reasons beyond the reasonable control of the account owner, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HE0D399B537924F30A1E16AFAA8568F7E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>rules permitting a nonspouse beneficiary to return distributions to an inherited individual retirement plan described in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/408">section 408(d)(3)(C)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in a case where, due to an inadvertent error by a service provider, the beneficiary had reason to believe that the distribution could be rolled over without inclusion in income of any part of the distributed amount.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F4D79D73DD245D687B4942F4B1D0E85"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Additional safe harbors</header><text>The Secretary shall expand the EPCRS to provide additional safe harbor means of correcting eligible inadvertent failures described in subsection (a), including safe harbor means of calculating the earnings which must be restored to a plan in cases where plan assets have been depleted by reason of an eligible inadvertent failure.</text></subsection><subsection id="HA45760835B8B494DA1C8F110990C1B62"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Eligible inadvertent failure</header><text>For purposes of this section—</text><paragraph id="H6AB50AF7D9864E8EAA8FF58A856B441A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the term <term>eligible inadvertent failure</term> means a failure that occurs despite the existence of practices and procedures which—</text><subparagraph id="H10A992B0F2B44A8AB3BB6C8B37330DAD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>satisfy the standards set forth in section 4.04 of Revenue Procedure 2019–19 (or any successor guidance), or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H023970D925DB46A492003859E9A677AB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfy similar standards in the case of an individual retirement plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H67000294D37943228B71A58F130259E8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible inadvertent failure</term> shall not include any failure which is egregious, relates to the diversion or misuse of plan assets, or is directly or indirectly related to an abusive tax avoidance transaction.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBC7E2C5E19B84327936E3F437D40EB0C"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Application of certain requirements for correcting errors</header><text>This section shall not apply to any failure unless the correction of such failure under this section is made in conformity with the general principles that apply to corrections of such failures under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including regulations or other guidance issued thereunder and including those principles and corrections set forth in Revenue Procedure 2019–19 (or any successor guidance).”</text></subsection></section><section id="H50D4356FECDC4689820DB41C6399385A"><enum>308.</enum><header>Eliminate the <quote>first day of the month</quote> requirement for governmental section 457(b) plans</header><subsection id="H7F6475F4E5424213AC3AF2A60FB50DF8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (4) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/457">section 457(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block id="H2FB2F2A291544145A3C92131AD6081D6" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H5CBB9471505645168D0D6939EFD2BD52"><enum>(4)</enum><text>which provides that compensation—</text><subparagraph id="H75603ECCEF6E47E59AEE5613216FA9CA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of an eligible employer described in subsection (e)(1)(A), will be deferred only if an agreement providing for such deferral has been entered into before the compensation is currently available to the individual, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF7AA9786B65C47B6A750B6AA81622802"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in any other case, will be deferred for any calendar month only if an agreement providing for such deferral has been entered into before the beginning of such month,</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H8087913B8D6E4FDAAE859C9A4DED9225"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="HE65FE1FDF2C54C3AB4BA42D5A5DEA5D0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>309.</enum><header>One-time election for qualified charitable distribution to split-interest entity; increase in qualified charitable distribution limitation</header><subsection id="HC967260E911043029BFBF59B958486C0" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>One-Time election for qualified charitable distribution to split-Interest entity</header><text>Section 408(d)(8) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H22D7EED292D84ABAA4CF6906BF6AA80B" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="HCB44A3AB10834AEFACFE6339B04A3CA0" commented="no"><enum>(F)</enum><header>One-time election for qualified charitable distribution to split-interest entity</header><clause id="HC73C685DA48347BDBC5322517D5AEA41" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A taxpayer may for a taxable year elect under this subparagraph to treat as meeting the requirement of subparagraph (B)(i) any distribution from an individual retirement account which is made directly by the trustee to a split-interest entity, but only if—</text><subclause id="H39A9FF9388194325BE1E03F47CD659BE" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>an election is not in effect under this subparagraph for a preceding taxable year,</text></subclause><subclause id="H4752F940A9E34D2D9A68864F6C938BF0"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the aggregate amount of distributions of the taxpayer with respect to which an election under this subparagraph is made does not exceed $50,000, and</text></subclause><subclause id="HC7BE89DD2FC7498C840633ABCA21B462" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text>such distribution meets the requirements of clauses (iii) and (iv).</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H8F17E2BC510B4D1FADDFEFBAADC3CAB2" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Split-interest entity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subparagraph, the term <term>split-interest entity</term> means—</text><subclause id="H1BC40D6CF0384D81BED771EC6E5260CD" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a charitable remainder annuity trust (as defined in section 664(d)(1)), but only if such trust is funded exclusively by qualified charitable distributions,</text></subclause><subclause id="H9CA638A04E734D8387E3D83133E9ECF1" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a charitable remainder unitrust (as defined in section 664(d)(2)), but only if such unitrust is funded exclusively by qualified charitable distributions, or</text></subclause><subclause id="H992E1B0301894EAD92CE3A60BDC4ABF1" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text>a charitable gift annuity (as defined in section 501(m)(5)), but only if such annuity is funded exclusively by qualified charitable distributions and commences fixed payments of 5 percent or greater not later than 1 year from the date of funding.</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A1E9642A2654B458ECFAE496BB68FDB"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Contributions must be otherwise deductible</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A distribution meets the requirement of this clause only if—</text><subclause id="H6A199B30238C4F67939D5E4DB4757610" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of a distribution to a charitable remainder annuity trust or a charitable remainder unitrust, a deduction for the entire value of the remainder interest in the distribution for the benefit of a specified charitable organization would be allowable under section 170 (determined without regard to subsection (b) thereof and this paragraph), and</text></subclause><subclause id="H7C6BFBA4F9B04917AE21F07B833E3C16" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a charitable gift annuity, a deduction in an amount equal to the amount of the distribution reduced by the value of the annuity described in section 501(m)(5)(B) would be allowable under section 170 (determined without regard to subsection (b) thereof and this paragraph).</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H7FE01AF584FF4A0D93A1C636912DA7FF" commented="no"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Limitation on income interests</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A distribution meets the requirements of this clause only if—</text><subclause id="H05207AA137A348E29A99E04E3679483F" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">no person holds an income interest in the split-interest entity other than the individual for whose benefit such account is maintained, the spouse of such individual, or both, and</text></subclause><subclause id="HF77B377056F14EEC89DBDEC067586E27" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the income interest in the split-interest entity is nonassignable.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H95E3EBF72E274680A3A779B2689B2EFA" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Special rules</header><subclause id="H83E0241F141449FFA0D51934D30FB47C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Charitable remainder trusts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 664(b), distributions made from a trust described in subclause (I) or (II) of clause (ii) shall be treated as ordinary income in the hands of the beneficiary to whom the annuity described in section 664(d)(1)(A) or the payment described in section 664(d)(2)(A) is paid.</text></subclause><subclause id="H1A96AFFA9D0B476C8B13C8F2C1F599AF" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Charitable gift annuities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualified charitable distributions made to fund a charitable gift annuity shall not be treated as an investment in the contract for purposes of section 72(c).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H507CB3C551554E3382544EAE88041767"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header><text>Section 408(d)(8) of such Code, as amended by subsection (a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H643046449C62413FB75DF91E56CE1CE5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="H1D11B6A9777E4AC696D465C3EB4905A5"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header><clause id="HBE491273F6FE47CBA856D99269EAE2AB"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any taxable year beginning after 2021, each of the dollar amounts in subparagraphs (A) and (F) shall be increased by an amount equal to—</text><subclause id="H6E5BA4BD05984AD3AB9D1D72C0BE8BF4"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such dollar amount, multiplied by</text></subclause><subclause id="H0BCA4FE385F349B7A58BE52F2F2721FE"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which the taxable year begins, determined by substituting <quote>calendar year 2020</quote> for <quote>calendar year 2016</quote> in subparagraph (A)(ii) thereof.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H5A78447FCADD4AFD916AAA07393B2F70"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Rounding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If any dollar amount increased under clause (i) is not a multiple of $1,000, such dollar amount shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $1,000.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H4CAB9E2046E94C68B54D6B7EF1530B64" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by this section shall apply to distributions made in taxable years ending after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="HF4D5C20A69654638BE3A2C1366A16737"><enum>310.</enum><header>Distributions to firefighters</header><subsection id="HEF71CA9ECEFE491887587D79244EC035"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subparagraph (A) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/72">section 72(t)(10)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>414(d))</quote> and inserting <quote>414(d)) or a distribution from a plan described in clause (iii), (iv), or (vi) of section 402(c)(8)(B) to an employee who provides firefighting services</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H94EC9970E0364587AF9385CD30C98357"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The heading of paragraph (10) of section 72(t) of such Code is amended—</text><paragraph id="H363AB2A4BF82492E909AB5C29789EED2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">qualified</header-in-text></quote>, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC25AD82D73684458B7C6A6FB1D984CEE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">in governmental plans</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H282E3E698ED342E1988EA4B1193081B7"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to distributions made after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H1D67D9E8D42847FAB5E7E9E74C250C92"><enum>311.</enum><header>Exclusion of certain disability-related first responder retirement payments</header><subsection id="H49EEDF54E65949CCAC306AEE091048A5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part III of subchapter B of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 139B the following new section:</text><quoted-block id="HDB065E891E2441FAAD6E4867772992A7" style="OLC"><section id="H5AC9D255FE504936A8E286914EDEFCAB"><enum>139C.</enum><header>Certain disability-related first responder retirement payments</header><subsection id="H32584AE374BB4C048084C742219DAD9C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who receives qualified first responder retirement payments for any taxable year, gross income shall not include so much of such payments as do not exceed the annualized excludable disability amount with respect to such individual.</text></subsection><subsection id="HFDFE7136A9DA444EB2116754CADB60A1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Qualified first responder retirement payments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>qualified first responder retirement payments</term> means, with respect to any taxable year, any pension or annuity which but for this section would be includible in gross income for such taxable year and which is received—</text><paragraph id="HB436C2D2E1394CB2B4EF4C0EA6F56FDB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>from a plan described in clause (iii), (iv), (v), or (vi) of section 402(c)(8)(B), and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H463882E3847D49E3AD3251C682EDB71D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in connection with such individual’s qualified first responder service.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDC2A3FC04F7D453E8BE4833B9FF54B07"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annualized excludable disability amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text><paragraph id="H22D470EA8D9E46BAA52402D423387A72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>annualized excludable disability amount</term> means, with respect to any individual, the service-connected excludable disability amounts which are properly attributable to the 12-month period immediately preceding the date on which such individual attains retirement age.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H97EE340141DA4F4C801E67058385BA37"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Service-connected excludable disability amount</header><text>The term <term>service-connected excludable disability amount</term> means periodic payments received by an individual which—</text><subparagraph id="H6A879F02FD4B4B6AB918A96B0B45609E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are not includible in such individual’s gross income under section 104(a)(1),</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA61EBE480EF946D5A0F23015FB962191"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are received in connection with such individual’s qualified first responder service, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFDBDD187F5324E51AD7A55EC6150B3E2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>terminate when such individual attains retirement age.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFA9C9CBDBD76441086A03248333991D8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Special rule for partial-year payments</header><text>In the case of an individual who only receives service-connected excludable disability amounts properly attributable to a portion of the 12-month period described in paragraph (1), such paragraph shall be applied by multiplying such amounts by the ratio of 365 to the number of days in such period to which such amounts were properly attributable.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB11E2A34CEC84939973C155B404F24EF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Qualified first responder service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>qualified first responder service</term> means service as a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or emergency medical technician.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F8D6EFB68A64F8A95F85BAA3BF65111"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for part III of subchapter B of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 139B the following new item:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF081B573BEC460F9A9183ADA22D2797" style="OLC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry level="section">Sec. 139C. Certain disability-related first responder retirement payments.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H77FB5C0607EF451480DA1C6A48FB1585"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to amounts received with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.</text></subsection></section><section id="H8F0A5DF1F68A46569E582842C3C46243"><enum>312.</enum><header>Individual retirement plan statute of limitations for excise tax on excess contributions and certain accumulations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6501">Section 6501(l)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF89B337EC3DE49088E24F6E60D1CFFD8" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HBC8A59AFB4CE47108694EE365812ED3A"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Individual retirement plans</header><subparagraph id="H24A7359824DD4DF49C37234766A8A88D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of any tax imposed by section 4973 or 4974 in connection with an individual retirement plan, the return referred to in this section shall be the income tax return filed by the person on whom the tax under such section is imposed for the year in which the act (or failure to act) giving rise to the liability for such tax occurred.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1028C0879CB645DFA553F1D61E95D1D1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rule in case of individuals not required to file return</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a person who is not required to file an income tax return for such year—</text><clause id="H1B9A828E242F4BAFAD58279AAB7E71E6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the return referred to in this section shall be the income tax return that such person would have been required to file but for the fact that such person was not required to file such return, and</text></clause><clause id="H2BD8A53076F74AC99BF1415DB0529AD1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the 3-year period referred to in subsection (a) with respect to the return shall be deemed to begin on the date by which the return would have been required to be filed (excluding any extension thereof).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="H73CDEAE98AD3445CBD6341C29DEE2660" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header>Requirement to provide paper statements in certain cases</header><subsection id="HE85C1D74B0D74B9BA39D364264454495"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 105(a)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1025">29 U.S.C. 1025(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="HF313B101C3794D78AF6D4B5EB352E18B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iv), by inserting <quote>subject to subparagraph (E),</quote> before <quote>may be delivered</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB595203E2D4A4CCDA02237F3A105B4C3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HC2A1C233E22441A585187CA6301EF1F0" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="HFE3168B9F4434829BE6818A3AC4CD0D1"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Provision of paper statements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to at least 1 pension benefit statement furnished for a calendar year with respect to an individual account plan under paragraph (1)(A), and with respect to at least 1 pension benefit statement furnished every 3 calendar years with respect to a defined benefit plan under paragraph (1)(B), such statement shall be furnished on paper in written form except—</text><clause id="H6B7CFFBD4B444BE9B72311D051BC44E3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a plan that furnishes such statement in accordance with section 2520.104b–1(c) of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations; or</text></clause><clause id="HF52A40D5F292403EABB5A327E33DFB46"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a plan that permits a participant or beneficiary to request that the statements referred to in the matter preceding clause (i) be furnished by electronic delivery, if the participant or beneficiary requests that such statements be delivered electronically and the statements are so delivered.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H855E4983DDFE4763B0B7A2DB37F1ECCB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation</header><paragraph id="H229CDD0CC3D5436A870EDC59795401CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Labor shall, not later than December 31, 2021, update section 2520.104b–1(c) of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, to provide that a plan may furnish the statements referred to in subparagraph (E) of section 105(a)(2) by electronic delivery only if, in addition to meeting the other requirements under the regulations—</text><subparagraph id="HA4B55BB2D22641989DAE0A2F5AC324C5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such plan furnishes each participant or beneficiary, including participants described in subparagraph (B), a one-time initial notice on paper in written form, prior to the electronic delivery of any pension benefit statement, of their right to request that all documents required to be disclosed under title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 be furnished on paper in written form; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0656A672C1D74D58B97633B1E8E05597"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such plan furnishes each participant who is separated from service with at least 1 pension benefit statement on paper in written form for each calendar year, unless, on election of the participant, the participant receives such statements electronically.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5AE83FC517A5472D93738944C5DC166D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other guidance</header><text>In implementing the amendment made by subsection (a) with respect to a plan that discloses required documents or statements electronically, in accordance with applicable guidance governing electronic disclosure by the Department of Labor (with the exception of section 2520.104b–1(c) of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations), the Secretary of Labor shall, not later than December 31, 2021, update such guidance to the extent necessary to ensure that—</text><subparagraph id="H390241B17CBA4D97A7F0EA55F28F87ED"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a participant or beneficiary under such a plan is permitted the opportunity to request that any disclosure required to be delivered on paper under applicable guidance by the Department of Labor shall be furnished by electronic delivery;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H027D39C919264C1090B5B6B8326E2194"><enum>(B)</enum><text>each paper statement furnished under such a plan pursuant to the amendment shall include—</text><clause id="H472D5E5AE0C2497FA63BBCA895990B45"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an explanation of how to request that all such statements, and any other document required to be disclosed under title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, be furnished by electronic delivery; and</text></clause><clause id="HE253A20704514FD6BE894456D4081D11"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contact information for the plan sponsor, including a telephone number;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD74E6023AE9945C58241FCFFF652CE79"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the plan may not charge any fee to a participant or beneficiary for the delivery of any paper statements;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA097D584FAC84EBBB7451A165EB95C37"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each paper pension benefit statement shall identify each plan document required to be disclosed and shall include information about how a participant or beneficiary may access each such document;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDE08E14663924AA9974D42BA51E0F60E"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each document required to be disclosed that is furnished by electronic delivery under such a plan shall include an explanation of how to request that all such documents be furnished on paper in written form; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA9E2DB1B57D84A02A3547BA77EF5179F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>a plan is permitted to furnish a duplicate electronic statement in any case in which the plan furnishes a paper pension benefit statement.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2DBA339062B24BE4ADD1AF6FB9B355B4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to plan years beginning after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection></section><section id="H161DFB299C6543499AD6421EF1BAC25B"><enum>314.</enum><header>Separate application of top heavy rules to defined contribution plans covering excludible employees</header><subsection id="H81CEECBDBF5E4D21B5D8B900FA0AB792"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/416">Section 416(c)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="HBAA00B5E784F4882B02DF013DDB5CB8B" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H27B49E4A4F894F8493488F899C452F08"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Separate application to employees not meeting age and service requirements</header><text>If employees not meeting the age or service requirements of section 410(a)(1) (without regard to subparagraph (B) thereof) are covered under a plan of the employer which meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) separately with respect to such employees, such employees may be excluded from consideration in determining whether any plan of the employer meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HA8608D5A5FBB4DF38C6C093846917D10"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to plan years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H3372585A77CF4F038CFB3101BAC2D0ED"><enum>315.</enum><header>Repayment of qualified birth or adoption distribution limited to <enum-in-header>3</enum-in-header> years</header><subsection id="H7FA3D69C21FF4669B6F0ED52E342EACD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/72">Section 72(t)(2)(H)(v)(I)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>may make</quote> and inserting <quote>may, at any time during the 3-year period beginning on the day after the date on which such distribution was received, make</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H40F0ACF8BEE14D77A972B6565BB5AD0D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 113 of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019.</text></subsection></section><section id="H515BB2E091FA45F187C85493FB2B15B9"><enum>316.</enum><header>Employer may rely on employee certifying that deemed hardship distribution conditions are met</header><subsection id="H5D7980DC69BA48E18E5819DA46BA95EF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Cash or deferred arrangements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(k)(14)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HBCB585B2CAD54F1CA79712A86041B479" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="H77BBFE89A4954A949AECF911F5F84DAE"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Employee certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining whether a distribution is upon the hardship of an employee, the administrator of the plan may rely on a certification by the employee that the distribution is on account of a financial need of a type that is deemed in regulations prescribed by the Secretary to be an immediate and heavy financial need and that such distribution is not in excess of the amount required to satisfy such financial need.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H33CEE518EC164FDA9F27B0A97212F563"><enum>(b)</enum><header><enum-in-header>403(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><paragraph id="HA9A521685B194980843598508C6BBDF7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Custodial accounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 403(b)(7) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H197388768CA2486BB4675E9F725D1F7E" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="H6BCEBEA1692A48D5901BCEC73A226DC1"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Employee certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining whether a distribution is upon the financial hardship of an employee, the administrator of the plan may rely on a certification by the employee that the distribution is on account of a financial need of a type that is deemed in regulations prescribed by the Secretary to be an immediate and heavy financial need and that such distribution is not in excess of the amount required to satisfy such financial need.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H6553BE11CF7E4BEFA51050F9BA7E77E5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Annuity contracts</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">Section 403(b)(11)</external-xref> is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>In determining whether a distribution is upon hardship of an employee, the administrator of the plan may rely on a certification by the employee that the distribution is on account of a financial need of a type that is deemed in regulations prescribed by the Secretary to be an immediate and heavy financial need and that such distribution is not in excess of the amount required to satisfy such financial need.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7E4C4E49EDE34020B9FEF96FFE4C2AFC"><enum>(c)</enum><header><enum-in-header>457(b)</enum-in-header> plan</header><text>Section 457(d) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3E243518EBEB4265A6A33AC87529FEA0" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HB7BF6AE49E98462982D75BC63B6B4C95"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Participant certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining whether a distribution of a participant is made when the participant is faced with an unforeseeable emergency, the administrator of a plan maintained by an eligible employer described in subsection (e)(1)(A) may rely on a certification by the participant that the distribution is made when the participant is faced with unforeseeable emergency of a type that is specifically described in regulations prescribed by the Secretary as an unforeseeable emergency and that the distribution is not in excess of the amount reasonably necessary to satisfy the emergency need.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HF0BEDFB455B94452A811504ECD81996F" commented="no"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="HDA1C98118ADB43A389583D949E4B8349"><enum>317.</enum><header>Penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans for individuals in case of domestic abuse</header><subsection id="HA660C6653EB840E9B786324A5CBE01A2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/72">Section 72(t)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H00DC48C7ED0D4792BB2C1F63EA5D34CB" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="HB6E7730F63584B1398B0AE83CAAAAE93"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Distributions from retirement plan in case of domestic abuse</header><clause id="H4D344E97A57841CFA97034964307EB9F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim.</text></clause><clause id="HC37A7A5ED4DA4137AC47EB7844791DCD"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The aggregate amount which may be treated as an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim by any individual shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of—</text><subclause id="H2A4B5509E4AD4D75A2FC55602D2E8568"><enum>(I)</enum><text>$10,000, or</text></subclause><subclause id="H27026729B4D940C8891BBA42CC60800C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>50 percent of the present value of the nonforfeitable accrued benefit of the employee under the plan.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="HF16932F2A0F441B7A0B06ECB5C9CD2CE"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subparagraph—</text><subclause id="H423169BE73674D2C97CAB104C8C9201A"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A distribution shall be treated as an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim if such distribution is from an applicable eligible retirement plan to an individual and made during the 1-year period beginning on any date on which the individual is a victim of domestic abuse by a spouse or domestic partner.</text></subclause><subclause id="H76360E56B5494D968B1926EEE5E075B2"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Domestic abuse</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>domestic abuse</quote> means physical, psychological, sexual, emotional, or economic abuse, including efforts to control, isolate, humiliate, or intimidate the victim, or to undermine the victim’s ability to reason independently, including by means of abuse of the victim’s child or another family member living in the household.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H27A093D408304E36BD48300058BCD770"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Treatment of plan distributions</header><subclause id="HC2BEED39C3BD4D569CB73BD205A27B57"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a distribution to an individual would (without regard to clause (ii)) be an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim, a plan shall not be treated as failing to meet any requirement of this title merely because the plan treats the distribution as an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim, unless the aggregate amount of such distributions from all plans maintained by the employer (and any member of any controlled group which includes the employer) to such individual exceeds the limitation under clause (ii).</text></subclause><subclause id="HBFBA512BADF64870B10C71C4EA8BAEEE"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Controlled group</header><text>For purposes of subclause (I), the term <quote>controlled group</quote> means any group treated as a single employer under subsection (b), (c), (m), or (o) of section 414.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="HC8F00CC39B1B4D4298B3F19FCC4397F0"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Amount distributed may be repaid</header><subclause id="H0924C2ED9A19441294B32C4406E35DB7"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any individual who receives a distribution described in clause (i) may, at any time during the 3-year period beginning on the day after the date on which such distribution was received, make one or more contributions in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount of such distribution to an applicable eligible retirement plan of which such individual is a beneficiary and to which a rollover contribution of such distribution could be made under section 402(c), 403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), 408(d)(3), or 457(e)(16), as the case may be.</text></subclause><subclause id="HA2BC96CBC3DE4F319612029DC230F85B"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Limitation on contributions to applicable eligible retirement plans other than <enum-in-header>IRAs</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The aggregate amount of contributions made by an individual under subclause (I) to any applicable eligible retirement plan which is not an individual retirement plan shall not exceed the aggregate amount of eligible distributions to a domestic abuse victim which are made from such plan to such individual. Subclause (I) shall not apply to contributions to any applicable eligible retirement plan which is not an individual retirement plan unless the individual is eligible to make contributions (other than those described in subclause (I)) to such applicable eligible retirement plan.</text></subclause><subclause id="HF809A2E3824C45919DFBC1B7D3EC90B5"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Treatment of repayments of distributions from applicable eligible retirement plans other than IRAs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a contribution is made under subclause (I) with respect to an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim from an applicable eligible retirement plan other than an individual retirement plan, then the taxpayer shall, to the extent of the amount of the contribution, be treated as having received such distribution in an eligible rollover distribution (as defined in section 402(c)(4)) and as having transferred the amount to the applicable eligible retirement plan in a direct trustee to trustee transfer within 60 days of the distribution.</text></subclause><subclause id="H95B2105C01F54A349CD64D998F4184AB"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Treatment of repayments for distributions from IRAs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a contribution is made under subclause (I) with respect to an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim from an individual retirement plan, then, to the extent of the amount of the contribution, such distribution shall be treated as a distribution described in section 408(d)(3) and as having been transferred to the applicable eligible retirement plan in a direct trustee to trustee transfer within 60 days of the distribution.</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H53937CD5A74D4A54A98382FF16769A82"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Definition and special rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subparagraph:</text><subclause id="HE49BE740A7084DA4B3C50676543CBC17"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Applicable eligible retirement plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>applicable eligible retirement plan</quote> means an eligible retirement plan (as defined in section 402(c)(8)(B)) other than a defined benefit plan.</text></subclause><subclause id="H4D7623715EFE4682A4ED9F49F2E92054"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Exemption of distributions from trustee to trustee transfer and withholding rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of sections 401(a)(31), 402(f), and 3405, an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim shall not be treated as an eligible rollover distribution.</text></subclause><subclause id="HF8B3212B9C1D45229D533715BE5639C6"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Distributions treated as meeting plan distribution requirements; self-certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any distribution which the employee or participant certifies as being an eligible distribution to a domestic abuse victim shall be treated as meeting the requirements of sections 401(k)(2)(B)(i), 403(b)(7)(A)(i), 403(b)(11), and 457(d)(1)(A).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HC4CE06DA52D14B7A93A82CA1F9BE7A19"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to distributions made after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H3E163918B8874BFC8CB0E30090BADEB8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>318.</enum><header>Reform of family attribution rule</header><subsection id="HE8482E59FBC24EB99F5C38E5BE665CB0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text><paragraph id="H1BD9DB21EAB2460483C6B519527C8A2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph id="H9FDA0D4117FC4358B16307157465F38C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>For purposes of</quote> and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H966FF35EAA72438D9A6EBF1267CB84E2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H20706019412F4C90B0D0EE560CB516B8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>, and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H90202CCC85CA42F49990F9FA1243290E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD8A058A83C05490F99313A6F865F80B7" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H4B81B07A681542468B68C0951DCF2D81"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Special rules for applying family attribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of applying the attribution rules under section 1563 with respect to paragraph (1), the following rules apply:</text><subparagraph id="H9526A8338FFA433A9E47504D0E5AC645"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Community property laws shall be disregarded for purposes of determining ownership.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H011ABAF3CD574F54AF76FAE906DB9C32"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided by the Secretary, stock of an individual not attributed under section 1563(e)(5) to such individual’s spouse shall not be attributed to such spouse by reason of 1563(e)(6)(A).</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2A6965E38CFA46A08B6A3374E450E13E" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Except as provided by the Secretary, in the case of stock in different corporations that is attributed to a child under section 1563(e)(6)(A) from each parent, and is not attributed to such parents as spouses under section 1563(e)(5), such attribution to the child shall not by itself result in such corporations being members of the same controlled group.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB5DF39056CBB4171ABAD1F777FCF962B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Plan shall not fail to be treated as satisfying this section</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If application of paragraph (2) causes two or more entities to be a controlled group, or an affiliated service group, or to no longer be in a controlled group or an affiliated service group, such change shall be treated as a transaction to which section 410(b)(6)(C) applies.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>, and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9BC677EE57F64A0686155BB5DDECAB30"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (m)(6)(B), by striking <quote>apply</quote> and inserting <quote>apply, except that community property laws shall be disregarded for purposes of determining ownership</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H67DD6A87C41F44579AEF7191073B3C21"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this section.</text></subsection></section><section id="H73231EA3BFC843C7AE57120E1238D7E3"><enum>319.</enum><header>Amendments to increase benefit accruals under plan for previous plan year allowed until employer tax return due date</header><subsection id="H5F9DEF77D690466797389C14F21DE797"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8FB3476C4EE34B92B554151AA0A6F3B3" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H5E90C8C8886D43D3BC4263F220C6277F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Retroactive plan amendments that increase benefit accruals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If—</text><subparagraph id="HF3868F3395104E1E95B9F6E33203BB81"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an employer amends a stock bonus, pension, profit-sharing, or annuity plan to increase benefits accrued under the plan effective for the preceding plan year (other than increasing the amount of matching contributions (as defined in subsection (m)(4)(A))),</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H58B57E42F939460D8F3015E6707A6A17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>such amendment would not otherwise cause the plan to fail to meet any of the requirements of this subchapter, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE17763A3FC3C4150AFC6C421A017A201"><enum>(C)</enum><text>such amendment is adopted before the time prescribed by law for filing the return of the employer for a taxable year (including extensions thereof) during which such amendment is effective, </text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">the employer may elect to treat such amendment as having been adopted as of the last day of the plan year in which the amendment is effective.</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H99F40F28210844CA91E12191322C5EDB" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection></section><section id="H1C6C2AD2785149CFA7E8B441E3DC0C7E" commented="no"><enum>320.</enum><header>Retroactive first year elective deferrals for sole proprietors</header><subsection id="H7EA64165F1984F20A34504B05CCCCDB0" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>In the case of an individual who owns the entire interest in an unincorporated trade or business, and who is the only employee of such trade or business, any elective deferral (as defined in section 402(g)(3)) under a qualified cash or deferred arrangement to which the preceding sentence applies which is made by such individual before the time for filing the return of such individual for the taxable year (determined without regard to any extensions) shall be treated as having been made before the end of the plan’s first plan year.</quote>. </text></subsection><subsection id="H94FE924DA8094C4BBF10D201FA54AD97" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="H9D79466E62094B239FF590438D81847A"><enum>321.</enum><header>Limiting cessation of <enum-in-header>IRA </enum-in-header>treatment to portion of account involved in a prohibited transaction</header><subsection id="H73913BFE1D92407A84A836D604079DDE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/408">Section 408(e)(2)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>such account ceases to be an individual retirement account</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>the portion of such account which is used in such transaction shall be treated as distributed to the individual</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H49492E43CEE24F46A9269664341635BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><paragraph id="HA62F8E8385BD4FBE88E5E646F8B6DB67"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 408(e)(2)(B) of such Code is amended—</text><subparagraph id="H6ABD49FA7E264360B5483F0A7B4F543E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">all its assets.—</header-in-text>In any case</quote> and all that follows through <quote>by reason of subparagraph (A)</quote> and inserting the following: <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">portion of assets used in prohibited transaction.—</header-in-text>In any case in which a portion of an individual retirement account is treated as distributed under subparagraph (A)</quote>, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2D5072E02AF0407FAEA43F9E87727749"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>all the assets in the account</quote> and inserting <quote>such portion</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H50995FC748CA462B969801B6D7143D15"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 4975(c)(3) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the account ceases</quote> and all that follows and inserting the following: <quote>the portion of the account used in the transaction is treated as distributed under paragraph (2)(A) or (4) of section 408(e).</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBDCAFDF1D05A46C19C91666F21139E81"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Technical Amendments</header><section id="H673437BC35EA47B4A1AA035C79771117" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header>Amendments relating to Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of <enum-in-header>2019</enum-in-header></header><subsection id="HD7DBE11A1EFE489B9407E7B8A790F073"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Technical amendments</header><paragraph id="H892CE19664F9481494675A4FEC678CF1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Amendment relating to section <enum-in-header>114</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/401">Section 401(a)(9)(C)(iii)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>employee to whom clause (i)(II) applies</quote> and inserting <quote>employee (other than an employee to whom clause (i)(II) does not apply by reason of clause (ii))</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H75179BCE2FD6473CA45E3B51AE5C1E12"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Amendment relating to section <enum-in-header>116</enum-in-header></header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/4973">Section 4973(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end of the flush matter the following: <quote>Such term shall not include any designated nondeductible contribution (as defined in subparagraph (C) of section 408(o)(2)) which does not exceed the nondeductible limit under subparagraph (B) thereof by reason of an election under section 408(o)(5).</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H1FEBB4FC656A4F818BD76B39D29C6241"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in section of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 to which the amendment relates.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4DB67F8BE8944964BB767A25A9C07A3C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/72">Section 72(t)(2)(H)(vi)(IV)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>403(b)(7)(A)(ii)</quote> and inserting <quote> 403(b)(7)(A)(i)</quote>. </text></subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Administrative Provisions</header><section id="HC0C930DCD36148E3968EAD7B3C6980FF"><enum>501.</enum><header>Provisions relating to plan amendments</header><subsection id="HA3585335D90B4914863AF7D9852324F6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If this section applies to any retirement plan or contract amendment—</text><paragraph id="H7DBCB54A1EE24AD4B01E831FE4EB827A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>such retirement plan or contract shall be treated as being operated in accordance with the terms of the plan during the period described in subsection (b)(2)(A); and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB289E87CE6A440B69F54751ECCE3EAE4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>except as provided by the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate), such retirement plan shall not fail to meet the requirements of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/411">section 411(d)(6)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and section 204(g) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 by reason of such amendment.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8B78D96159304EA5B78BA523303424D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendments to which section applies</header><paragraph id="HB2FAAC481B064FC090C8AFCA1DEBADB3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>This section shall apply to any amendment to any retirement plan or annuity contract which is made—</text><subparagraph id="H74EF7586DAF64FCAB325BC1BDC1D3E90"><enum>(A)</enum><text>pursuant to any amendment made by this Act or pursuant to any regulation issued by the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of Labor (or a delegate of either such Secretary) under this Act; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3A6558C5F0074B55ABD50CCD244700C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on or before the last day of the first plan year beginning on or after January 1, 2023, or such later date as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">In the case of a governmental plan (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">section 414(d)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), this paragraph shall be applied by substituting <quote>2025</quote> for <quote>2023</quote>. </continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="H5AC4E4DC27EA4EC5BD434B924DE4CFE8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conditions</header><text>This section shall not apply to any amendment unless—</text><subparagraph id="H1E91898B50B147FA996B9243FA18B7E2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>during the period—</text><clause id="H044F4D6DB8BC42F49E5767A3AF8B74DB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>beginning on the date the legislative or regulatory amendment described in paragraph (1)(A) takes effect (or in the case of a plan or contract amendment not required by such legislative or regulatory amendment, the effective date specified by the plan); and</text></clause><clause id="HE1964669066A4072A5FA5E7B31AC798E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>ending on the date described in paragraph (1)(B) (as modified by the second sentence of paragraph (1)) (or, if earlier, the date the plan or contract amendment is adopted),</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">the plan or contract is operated as if such plan or contract amendment were in effect; and </continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4CFC05F8DF734F86A8A86B4CF6E236D0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>such plan or contract amendment applies retroactively for such period.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9044D5553DB3400F83554DC58CBC7C86"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Coordination with other provisions relating to plan amendments</header><paragraph id="HB8858A09313E47E1AF28D2890BB8F4C6"><enum>(1)</enum><header><enum-in-header>SECURE</enum-in-header> Act</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 601(b)(1) of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 is amended—</text><subparagraph id="H309D22F953AA48ED951139DB0014F849"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>January 1, 2022</quote> in subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>January 1, 2023</quote>, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H041F7EFC89144F12B5847E7D5E15B8BA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>substituting <quote>2024</quote> for <quote>2022</quote>.</quote> in the flush matter at the end and inserting <quote>substituting <quote>2025</quote> for <quote>2023</quote>.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5C24BB597DAE4D638C9AB59674A0F916"><enum>(2)</enum><header><enum-in-header>CARES</enum-in-header> Act</header><subparagraph id="H38B619C686144219B31D090E06DE4C33"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Special rules for use of retirement funds</header><text>Section 2202(c)(2)(A) of the CARES Act is amended by striking <quote>January 1, 2022</quote> in clause (ii) and inserting <quote>January 1, 2023</quote>.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H42E77068DE754ACF9DA1AC4BBAAF56B4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Temporary waiver of required minimum distributions rules for certain retirement plans and accounts</header><text>Section 2203(c)(2)(B)(i) of the CARES Act is amended—</text><clause id="H86B5F27FB68E4D0D927FF404BBE9777F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>January 1, 2022</quote> in subclause (II) and inserting <quote>January 1, 2023</quote>, and</text></clause><clause id="H05E5370BE98F4A10933826AF74921C2D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>substituting <quote>2024</quote> for <quote>2022</quote>.</quote> in the flush matter at the end and inserting <quote>substituting <quote>2025</quote> for <quote>2023</quote>.</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE4032849EBA74C898EC79F3CF0F04BCF"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 302(d)(2)(A) of the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 is amended by striking <quote>January 1, 2022</quote> in clause (ii) and inserting <quote>January 1, 2023</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Revenue Provisions</header><section id="H672CBC52EA7241D4BEF384428304DD27" commented="no"><enum>601.</enum><header>Simple and <enum-in-header>SEP</enum-in-header> Roth <enum-in-header>IRA</enum-in-header>s</header><subsection id="H7AEA7250E37C4A73825F83CC487755A1" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/408A">Section 408A</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking subsection (f).</text></subsection><subsection id="HC3CAE3F2192242FFA9B8462BAD42FA09"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rules relating to simplified employee pensions</header><paragraph id="HBAF5046A9134439FA297EECABA596463"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Contributions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 402(h)(1) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>, and</quote>, and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H7884039113FE42D8977DE47EADF0F420" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subparagraph id="HC1D1987B0304467EA5AA3FB1BD66F874"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of any contributions pursuant to a simplified employer pension which are made to an individual retirement plan designated as a Roth IRA, such contribution shall not be excludable from gross income.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="HC9964BA7E4454FA1805FE31CC6D96247"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Distributions</header><text>Section 402(h)(3) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>, or section 408A(d) in the case of an individual retirement plan designated as a Roth IRA</quote> before the period at the end.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H25530F0CFAC24656A5FAE8A413DC45DE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Election required</header><text>Section 408(k) of such Code is amended by redesignating paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) as paragraphs (8), (9), and (10), respectively, and by inserting the after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H55F466E868D747A491245E3056CFDB96" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HDA5B1D2E98704D30B882A8646966B78F"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Roth contribution election</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individual retirement plan which is designated as a Roth IRA shall not be treated as a simplified employee pension under this subsection unless the employee elects for such plan to be so treated (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may provide).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H805E5A8578BB4C788A030F9274A5AEDB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rules relating to simple retirement accounts</header><paragraph id="HB073438B643F4740A46F0E3468D2FD3F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Election required</header><text>Section 408(p) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD6B75B2C2D8F4B06BB8CC886F15C9763" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HDD921D12AB664F6EA29E080EF7CD8EFA"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Roth contribution election</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individual retirement plan which is designated as a Roth IRA shall not be treated as a simple retirement account under this subsection unless the employee elects for such plan to be so treated (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may provide).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H07ED7C517B1D4CCBA54663EC95AA0ABD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rollovers</header><text>Section 408A(e) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3EF153FB83DB4FC884015B3DDB26DBD1" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HC555A0429C8E483DB404537E2B65416D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Simple retirement accounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any payment or distribution out of a simple retirement account (as defined in section 408(p)) with respect to which an election has been made under section 408(p)(11) and to which 72(t)(6) applies, the term <quote>qualified rollover contribution</quote> shall not include any payment or distribution paid into an account other than another simple retirement account (as so defined).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H42D3198FB72B4450B2E7DFFB4494509A" commented="no"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Coordination with Roth contribution limitation</header><text>Section 408A(c) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H5FADFCBA8FEF4365A44709FDBD9FFE90" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H79C8CD003D8F456FAF1DBB08816DD7D8" commented="no"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Coordination with limitation for simple retirement plans and <enum-in-header>SEPs</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual on whose behalf contributions are made to a simple retirement account or a simplified employee pension, the amount described in paragraph (2)(A) shall be increased by an amount equal to the contributions made on the individual’s behalf to such account or pension for the taxable year, but only to the extent such contributions—</text><subparagraph id="H76782E18FD284F87BEDBAE659433EE25" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of a simplified retirement account—</text><clause id="HCAEE806BF5E44311AAC228D3542E4C46"><enum>(i)</enum><text>do not exceed the sum of the dollar amount in effect for the taxable year under section 408(p)(2)(A)(ii) and the employer contribution required under subparagraph (A)(iii) or (B)(i), as the case may be, of section 408(p)(2), and</text></clause><clause id="HA77AFF7C96CD4C7FAC2A87107387E0F7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">do not cause the elective deferrals (as defined in section 402(g)(3)) on behalf of such individual to exceed the limitation under section 402(g)(1) (taking into account any additional elective deferrals permitted under section 414(v)), or</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE6E12C863EF14425AE801124E38FFB32" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of a simplified employee pension, do not exceed the limitation in effect under section 408(j).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HF538894F636D4322AC89450CC3718E7C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 408A(d)(2)(B) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>, or employer in the case of a simple retirement account (as defined in section 408(p)) or simplified employee pension (as defined in section 408(k)),</quote> after <quote>individual’s spouse</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H35A148C3126A4D5B881E19EEB68C0250" commented="no"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H5E88421099E44D4CA9076FABF3C2EADE"><enum>602.</enum><header>Hardship withdrawal rules for <enum-in-header>403(b)</enum-in-header> plans</header><subsection id="H42B936B2B34D4EEE9507792387FE6A78"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">Section 403(b)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block id="HD276CBE5E64F478FA787B68B5D19E4D6" style="OLC"><paragraph id="HA9C54EF2CB664233A44E1ED730DD532D"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Special rules relating to hardship withdrawals</header><text>For purposes of paragraphs (7) and (11)—</text><subparagraph id="H32EC6E7A225D41D49B2D14B10F78F333"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Amounts which may be withdrawn</header><text>The following amounts may be distributed upon hardship of the employee:</text><clause id="H1411D590086A4149ADB27664E418B4B9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement (within the meaning of section 3121(a)(5)(D)).</text></clause><clause id="H2EBBEDBCDFD242968BE2138517A3999D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Qualified nonelective contributions (as defined in section 401(m)(4)(C)).</text></clause><clause id="HF8D912D93FF04E81939357F3ED4FC636"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Qualified matching contributions described in section 401(k)(3)(D)(ii)(I).</text></clause><clause id="H565B6378DBD647EA8B6D19E9F7A81EE6"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Earnings on any contributions described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii).</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF56070A24DDD416CA0DB9299AAF9531E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>No requirement to take available loan</header><text>A distribution shall not be treated as failing to be made upon the hardship of an employee solely because the employee does not take any available loan under the plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H4952F0AD498445688FD17787D286BC11"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><paragraph id="HC2FDAFDA4E814E0D98F9193097AF5F4E"><enum>(1)</enum><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">Section 403(b)(7)(A)(ii)</external-xref> is amended by striking <quote>in the case of contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement (within the meaning of section 3121(a)(5)(D))</quote> and inserting <quote>subject to the provisions of paragraph (15)</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H4469CCDCC9AA4DE3A8F10A86099105CF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Paragraph (11) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/403">section 403(b)</external-xref> is amended—</text><subparagraph id="HFC069736BE684A78A76C2A0966B49B54"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>in</quote> in subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>subject to the provisions of paragraph (15), in</quote>, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5A7C4BB64C21481F8401ADE17D0939C5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the last sentence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCC3F5AD19AC3426D9C9D28F7F9506548"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H3BCD8F41BD9048DB84637174CA19DB55"><enum>603.</enum><header>Elective deferrals generally limited to regular contribution limit</header><subsection id="H883FC773A99E456880F89033AD266607"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Applicable employer plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/414">Section 414(v)(1)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Except in the case of an applicable employer plan described in paragraph (6)(iv), the preceding sentence shall only apply if contributions are designated Roth contributions (as defined in section 402A(c)(1)).</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H55BC007BA6C843BE96370EB43710537A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><paragraph id="H76BE3E809AAC43B0931724271F013274"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 402(g)(1) of such Code is amended by striking subparagraph (C).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H4153A9B63B2E45BF95A44D9A6895D87E"><enum>(2)</enum><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/457">Section 457(e)(18)(A)(ii)</external-xref> is amended by inserting <quote>the lesser of any designated Roth contributions made by the participant to the plan or</quote> before <quote>the applicable dollar amount</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8297683FDD7048439591CE60F05C5D1E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.</text></subsection></section><section id="H059C7535077A42A2A07B151AE82CB6E6"><enum>604.</enum><header>Optional treatment of employer matching contributions as Roth contributions</header><subsection id="HEBE00297CAD04008B745193DD6FE98D5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/402A">Section 402A(a)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1), and by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H234E6F035E8F4D0F8AC48270A288D0A9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="HF7045CFAB8C1479B97468E85AB97BC29"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any designated Roth contribution which is made by the employer to the program on the employee’s behalf, and on account of the employee’s contribution or elective deferral, shall be treated as a matching contribution for purposes of this chapter, except that such contribution shall not be excludable from gross income, and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HB00E5959E3AC4AFDBEF3BA1A3EA37423"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Matching included in qualified Roth contribution program</header><text>Section 402A(b)(1) of such Code is amended—</text><paragraph id="HBE9EBC4B81064D1B8C0DFD95045AF181"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, or to have made on the employee’s behalf,</quote> after <quote>elect to make</quote>, and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC96418FBBB674906942D2F40E52DEDF6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, or of matching contributions which may otherwise be made on the employee’s behalf,</quote> after <quote>otherwise eligible to make</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H968FDF84DDB0400B845E7A9CB766C8BB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Designated Roth matching contributions</header><text>Section 402A(c)(1) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>or matching contribution</quote> after <quote>elective deferral</quote>. </text></subsection><subsection id="H3511DDF2C7FB4AF2B701A0E56936D91A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Matching contribution defined</header><text>Section 402A(e) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H4D503357DB1B4F8681A3E6FD16C42F66" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H05F26E5EA2814BD7A76F4ABE145E6144"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Matching contribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>matching contribution</quote> means—</text><subparagraph id="H0DDED607F7DC425BAF23072ECA4F38D0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any matching contribution described in section 401(m)(4)(A), and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBC07FDF2460C490EB7A656EAB943EFB1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any contribution to an eligible deferred compensation plan (as defined in section 457(b)) by an eligible employer described in section 457(e)(1)(A) on behalf of an employee and on account of such employee’s elective deferral under such plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HFD9C195E4ABB428BABC22EED9F585E9E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to contributions made after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>