HR 1177
108th Congress
House
Taxation
Employee health benefits
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional choice regarding unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements.
Introduced: March 11, 2003
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Became law
Mar 11, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 11, 2003
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth that a plan or other arrangement shall not cease to count as a cafeteria plan solely because qualified benefits under such plan include a health flexible spending arrangement under which, with respect to any plan year, not more than $500 of unused health benefits may be carried forward to the next year of such arrangement or paid to or on behalf of an employee as compensation from employment. Sets forth rules for determining whether or not such benefits shall be included or excluded from income.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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