HR 1792
111th Congress
House
Taxation
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
Health personnel
Income tax deferral
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2009
Introduced: March 30, 2009
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 14, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 30, 2009
Referred to House Education and Labor
Mar 30, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 30, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 30, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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