A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the establishment of employee stock ownership plans in a manner that will ensure that such plans are established by employers as permanent plans for the exclusive benefit of their employees.
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Improvements Act of 1985 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code to set requirements relating to the establishment of employee stock ownership plans in cases of corporate consolidation.
Disqualifies such plans unless they: (1) do not become effective until approved by the vote of an absolute majority of the employees; (2) provide that all accrued benefits are nonforfeitable; (3) provide that each participant has full voting power of all classes of stock allocated to the participant and that all unallocated stock is voted in the same proportion as the allocated stock is voted; and (4) do not supersede certain defined benefit plans during the period from one year before to one year after the termination of such plans.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
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