S 484
109th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medical economics
Military medicine
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Tax deductions
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.
Introduced: March 1, 2005
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 1, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1875)
Mar 1, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1875)
Mar 1, 2005
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit: (1) Federal civilian and military retirees to pay Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and TRICARE supplemental premiums on a pretax basis (i.e., exclude premiums from gross income); and (2) a tax deduction (available to itemizers and nonitemizers) for TRICARE supplemental premiums or enrollment fees.
Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the option of paying FEHBP and TRICARE supplemental premiums on a pretax basis is available to Federal civilian and military retirees for the first open enrollment period beginning not less than 90 days after the enactment of this Act.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1875)
Committees of jurisdiction
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