Lobbying Relationship

Client

Employers Council on Flexible Compensation

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Lobbying firm

Ms. Colette Desmarais

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  • Issues pertaining to account-based plans; tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance
  • Tax treatment of employer-sponsored transit benefits (S. 1116 and H.R. 2288), health FSAs, HSAs, and HRAs and dependent care FSAs.

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $90,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2012: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate,

Bills mentioned

S.1116: Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2013

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

H.R.2288: Commuter Parity Act of 2013

Sponsor: Mike Grimm (R-N.Y.)

H.R.8: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

Sponsor: Dave Camp (R-Mich.)

S.3521: Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

S.1404: Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2011

Sponsor: Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.)

H.R.1004: Health Flexible Spending Arrangements Improvements Act of 2012

Sponsor: Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.)

H.R.2529: Restoring Access to Medication Act

Sponsor: Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.)

S.1034: Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2011

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Colette Desmarais Health Policy Advisor, Senator Charles Grassley
Desmarais Colette n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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