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H.R. 980: CARE Act
- Introduced:
- Mar 06, 2013 (113th Congress, 2013–2015)
- Sponsor:
- Rep. Nick Rahall II [D-WV3]
- Status:
- Referred to Committee
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- Full Title
To protect the health care and pension benefits of our nation's miners.
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- Text
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Last updated Mar 06, 2013.
6 pages
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Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
3/6/2013--Introduced.
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act of 2013 or CARE Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to transfer specified excess funds derived from coal mine operator-paid reclamation fees to the trustees of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan for use solely to pay pension benefits required under such Plan. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise 1992 UMWA Benefit Plan eligibility requirements.
Makes eligible for health benefits from the 1992 UMWA Benefit Plan an individual who would be eligible to receive benefits from the 1974 UMWA Benefit Plan (with a specified exception) following a bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding of a coal mine operator, but who does not receive from that operator or any related person health benefits at least equal to those received under the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.
Prescribes a special rule to state 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 the requirements for 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 wages any payments made to, or on behalf of, an employee or his or her beneficiary under such a plan.
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The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:
United States Code
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- Title 30: MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
- Chapter 25: SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION
- Subchapter IV: ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATIONS
- Section 1232: Reclamation fee