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H.R. 2403: Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act of 2015

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H.R. 2403: Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-05-18 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-05-18 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1] · 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 Energy and Mineral Resources. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act of 2015

Plain summary

Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act of 2015 Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to address potential shortages in the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan for payment of health care benefits to retired coal miners by expanding the eligible uses of interest transferable to the plan from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, and supplemental payments from the General Fund of the Treasury. Requires calculation of such amount by taking into account only those beneficiaries who are actually enrolled in the plan as of the enactment of this Act, as well as those retirees whose health benefits, payable directly by an employer in the bituminous coal industry under a coal wage agreement as a result of a bankruptcy proceeding commenced in 2012, would be denied or reduced. Requires the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the trustees of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan a certain additional amount of funds, to pay pension benefits required under that plan, if the $490 million limitation on certain transfers to the UMWA Combined Benefit Fund and distributions to states and Indian tribes exceeds the aggregate amount required to be transferred to them. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe a special rule that employer contributions to an employees' trust or annuity benefit plan providing supplemental benefits solely to participants in a pension plan are neither deductible nor nondeductible as such from the employer's gross income. Subjects such contributions, on the other hand, to deduction as an allowable trade or business expense. Treats a trust holding the assets of such a pension benefit plan as a tax-exempt organization. Excludes from taxable wages any payments made to, or on behalf of, an employee or his or her beneficiary under such a plan.

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Official text

Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1] · 87 cosponsors

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Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Mike Rogers (R-AL), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Andy Barr (R-KY), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Peter Welch (D-VT), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), André Carson (D-IN), Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and 27 more.

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Record fed-us-cong114-hr2403 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114