[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1423 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1423

   To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for 
  amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to 
             increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2009

   Mr. Stark (for himself and Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for 
  amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to 
             increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXCLUSION FOR AMOUNTS RECEIVED UNDER QUALIFIED GROUP LEGAL 
              SERVICES PLANS RESTORED AND MADE PERMANENT.

    (a) Increase of Exclusion.--Subsection (a) of section 120 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to exclusion by employee for 
contributions and legal services provided by employer) is amended by 
striking the last sentence.
    (b) Restoration and Permanence of Exclusion.--Section 120 of such 
Code (relating to amounts received under qualified group legal services 
plans) is amended by striking subsection (e) and by redesignating 
subsection (f) as subsection (e).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2008.
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