H.R. 376 — Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011 | PoliFocus

H.R. 376112th Congress

Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide recruitment and retention incentives for volunteer emergency service workers.

Subjects

Taxation

Summary

Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011- 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).

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Related Legislation

S. 1911Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011
2011-11-18Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Legislative Actions

2011-01-20
Introduced in House
2011-01-20
Introduced in House
2011-01-20
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
2011-01-20
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
2011-02-25
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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