EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT (ERISA)

Amendments

SEC: protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 1090), H7241 [27OC]

——— protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 1090), consideration (H. Res. 491), H7207 [27OC]

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Labor: provide for a best interest standard for advice fiduciaries relative to retirement investment advice (see H.R. 3922), H7741 [4NO]

Diseases: require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to cover oral cancer drugs on terms no less favorable than for cancer medications administered by a health care provider (see S. 1566), S4103 [11JN] (see H.R. 2739), H4241 [11JN]

Health: provide protection for retiree health benefits (see H.R. 1856), H2306 [16AP]

Insurance: ensure health care coverage value and transparency for dental benefits under group health plans (see H.R. 1677), H2108 [26MR]

——— exclude from the definition of health insurance coverage certain medical stop-loss insurance obtained by certain plan sponsors of group health plans (see S. 775), S1628 [18MR] (see H.R. 1423), H1767 [18MR]

Investments: require 401(k) plan sponsors to inform participants of projected monthly income expected at retirement based on current account balances (see S. 1317), S2849 [13MY] (see H.R. 2317), H3211 [14MY]

Pensions: ensure retirement investors receive advice in their best interests (see H.R. 4293), H10710 [18DE]

——— make participant votes binding on suspension of benefits under multiemployer plans in critical and declining status and count only votes that are returned (see S. 2147), S7219 [7OC] (see H.R. 4029), H8279 [17NO]

——— modify certain provisions relative to multiemployer pensions (see S. 1631), S4298 [18JN] (see H.R. 2844), H4546 [19JN]

——— permit multiemployer plans in critical status to modify plan rules relative to withdrawal liability (see H.R. 458), H480 [21JA]

——— provide for the electronic delivery of pension plan information (see H.R. 2656), H3913 [4JN]

——— provide greater spousal protection under defined contribution plans, expand access to retirement savings, and increase financial literacy (see S. 2110), S7047 [30SE] (see H.R. 4235), H9270 [10DE]

SEC: protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (see H.R. 1090), H1164 [25FE]

——— protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 1090), consideration (see H. Res. 491), H7188 [26OC]

Small business: improve access to and choice of medical care for employees (see H.R. 2868), H4650 [24JN]

Taxation: provide recruitment and retention incentives for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders (see H.R. 1171), H1499 [27FE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Labor: provide for a best interest standard for advice fiduciaries relative to retirement investment advice, E1823 [18DE]

Diseases: require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to cover oral cancer drugs on terms no less favorable than for cancer medications administered by a health care provider (H.R. 2739), H4970 [9JY]

Pensions: modify certain provisions relative to multiemployer pensions (H.R. 2844), E936 [19JN]

SEC: protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 1090), H7164 [23OC], H7231–H7243, H7244 [27OC], E1556 [28OC], E1567 [2NO]

——— protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 1090), consideration (H. Res. 491), H7201–H7207 [27OC]

Remarks in Senate

Pensions: modify certain provisions relative to multiemployer pensions (S. 1631), S7256 [8OC]

——— provide greater spousal protection under defined contribution plans, expand access to retirement savings, and increase financial literacy (S. 2110), S7049 [30SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 1090, Retail Investor Protection Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 491) (H. Rept. 114–313), H7188 [26OC]

Retail Investor Protection Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1090) (H. Rept. 114–304), H7137 [22OC]

Statements

Retail Investor Protection Act: Several Organizations, H7234 [27OC]

Texts of

H. Res. 491, consideration of H.R. 1090, Retail Investor Protection Act, H7201 [27OC]

H.R. 1090, Retail Investor Protection Act, H7231 [27OC]