3.0.0 5397 2023-01-14T22:48:32Z 2023-01-14T22:48:32Z House H HR 2004-11-19 108 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2004-11-19T14:01:05Z 2004-11-19 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2004-11-19 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2004-11-19 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress A000210 Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1] ROBERT ANDREWS D NJ E. 1 N Labor and Employment Accounting Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Age Alimony Annuities Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Bribery Business records Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Civil service retirement Collective bargaining Commerce Commercial arbitration Compensation (Law) Computer software Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal justice information Defined benefit pension plans Defined contribution plans Department of Labor Disability insurance Disabled Discrimination Divorce Early retirement Economics and Public Finance Embezzlement Employee benefit plans Employee ownership Employee rights Employers' liability Evidence (Law) Executive reorganization Executives Extortion Families Family leave Federal employees Federal preemption Finance and Financial Sector Financial planning Financial services Financial statements Fines (Penalties) Fraud Gifts Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Health Health insurance Identification devices Income Individual retirement accounts Information disclosure (Securities law) Insurance premiums Interest Investment advisers Investments Judicial review Labor contracts Larceny Law Legal fees Legislation Liability (Law) Loans Married people Mediation Medical economics Military dependents Military pensions Missing persons Ombudsman Pension funds Pension portability Public-private partnerships Railroad retirement plans Science, Technology, Communications Sick leave Small business Social Welfare State laws Stockholders Surety and fidelity Survivors' benefits Tax-deferred compensation plans Taxation Transportation and Public Works Trusts and trustees Unemployment insurance Widowers Widows Women Workers' compensation Labor and Employment 00 2004-11-19 Introduced in House 2005-01-03T22:05:09Z Retirement Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise or provide pension plan requirements for: (1) plan coverage and participation, defined contribution plan benefit vesting, and simplified pension plans; (2) various pension protections for spouses (under ERISA, the Civil Service Retirement Spouse Equity Act of 1984, and the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974); (3) simplified investment standards, including disclosure regarding investments and voting of proxies, diversification in defined contribution investments, diversification of investments under employee stock ownership plans by participants and beneficiaries over 55 years of age, immediate warning of excessive stock holdings, and reports of trades in employer securities; (4) pension information reporting and enforcement for defined benefit plans and multiemployer plans, including procedures for treatment of missing participants and unclaimed benefits; and (5) various pension protections for a changing workforce, including pension plan qualified loans for health insurance and job training expenses of participants or beneficiaries, immediate distributions if rolled over to qualified plans, and prompt distributions from defined contribution plans upon termination of participants' covered employment.

Establishes an Office of Pension Participant Advocacy in the Department of Labor.

]]> Retirement Enhancement Act of 2004 Display Title Retirement Enhancement Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced To improve the retirement security of American families. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Retirement Enhancement Act of 2004 Introduced in House 2004-11-19T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-108hr5397ih/xml/BILLS-108hr5397ih.xml 2004-11-19 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.