S 42 111th Congress Senate

STAR Act

Official title: A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers and to help ensure greater congression… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers and to help ensure greater congressional oversight of the Social Security system by requiring that both Houses of Congress approve a totalization agreement before the agreement, giving foreign workers Social Security benefits, can go into effect.

Introduced: July 10, 2009 See on congress.gov

Social Welfare Congressional oversightForeign laborInternational law and treatiesSocial security and elderly assistance

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Jan 6, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Jan 6, 2009

Introduced in Senate

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Latest action January 6, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2009 or STAR Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that any agreement to establish a totalization arrangement which is entered into with another country shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and only if): (1) the President, at least 90 calendar days before the date on which he enters into the agreement, notifies each House of Congress of his intention to enter into it, and promply thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; (2) he transmits the text of such agreement to each House of the Congress; and (3) a joint resolution regarding such agreement has passed both Houses of Congress and been enacted into federal law.

Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such a joint resolution.

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