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Individual Social Security Retirement Account Act of 1993

Introduced: January 5, 1993 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 4, 1994
Committee Hearings Held.
Oct 18, 1993
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8060-8061)
Feb 2, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
Jan 15, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Jan 5, 1993
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 5, 1993
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jan 5, 1993
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Individual Social Security Retirement Account Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the social security taxes on employees, employers, and the self-employed for 1995 and thereafter.

Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require employers to have in effect a social security payroll deduction plan for employees. Requires such plan to provide for employers to deduct the prescribed social security employee contribution for transfer, together with the prescribed social security employer contribution, to an individual social security retirement account of the employee.

Provides for self-employed individuals to pay into such accounts the prescribed social security self-employment contribution.

Sets forth penalties for failure to establish and maintain such accounts.

Requires amounts deducted from employee wages to be shown on wage receipts for employees.

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exempt social security payroll deduction plans from provisions governing employee benefit plans.

Provides for the tax treatment of individual social security retirement accounts in a manner similar to individual retirement accounts.

What's happening now October 4, 1994

Committee Hearings Held.

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