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S 1657 111th Congress Senate Taxation Emergency medical services and trauma care Fires Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health personnel Income tax exclusion Law enforcement officers Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exception from the 10 percent penalty for early withdrawals from government plans for qualified public safety employees.

Introduced: September 9, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Sep 9, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 9, 2009
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the exemption from the 10% penalty for premature distributions from governmental employee benefit plans to qualified public safety employees to eliminate the restriction that such plans be defined benefit plans; and (2) exempt from tax penalties certain periodic payments made to qualified public safety employees before the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (i.e., August 17, 2006).

What's happening now September 9, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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