Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 respecting the computation of annuity benefits for railraod employees and spouses of deceased employees.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request by the Railroad Retirement Board, to transfer funds from the Railroad Retirement Account in the U.S. Treasury to the Railroad Retirement Supplemental Account if the amounts in the supplemental account are insufficient to pay the annuities due from it. Requires the transfer of any excess amounts in the supplemental account to the retirement account.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from the definition of compensation paid to railroad employees, for purposes of the Railroad Retirement Tax, amounts paid to, or on behalf of, an employee or any of his dependents, under a plan or system established by an employer which provides for his employees generally or for a class or classes of his employees on account of sickness or accident disability or medical or hospitalization expenses in connection with such sickness or disability.
Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
Measure considered in House.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #766 (379-4).
Roll Call #766 (House)Measure passed House, amended, roll call #766 (379-4).
Roll Call #766 (House)Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare discharged in Senate.
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare discharged in Senate.
Placed on calendar in Senate.
Call of calendar in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate.
Measure passed Senate.
Measure enrolled in House.
Measure enrolled in Senate.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public law 94-547.
Public law 94-547.
Enacted as Public Law 94-547
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