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H.R. 2070: Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act

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H.R. 2070: Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-04-28 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-04-28 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act

Plain summary

Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employees in the building and construction industry to make distributions from their tax-exempt multi-employer pension plan at age 55 if they are not separated from employment at the time of such distributions and were participants in such plan on or before April 30, 2013, and the plan provides for payment of separate accrued benefits when the employee attains the plan's normal retirement age. Suspends payment of distributions for such building and construction industry employees if their multi-employer plan is in endangered or critical status.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3] · 6 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ann Wagner (R-MO), Mike Bost (R-IL), Pete Sessions (R-TX)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr2070 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114