H.R.1969: To provide for private-sector solutions to certain pension funding challenges, and for other purposes.

About This Bill

  • This bill was introduced in the 112th Congress
  • This bill is primarily about labor and employment
  • Introduced May 24, 2011
  • Latest Major Action Sept. 8, 2011

Bill Summary

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), provided certain conditions are met, to allow the sponsor of an underfunded multiemployer benefit plan to accept from an employer a ratified collective bargaining agreement that provides for a reduction in plan employer contributions as well as appropriate reduction in the level of...

(Source: Library of Congress)

Bill Actions

Date Description
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to House Ways and Means
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
May 24, 2011

Introduced in the House by Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.)

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