To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make lifetime income and managed account options of defined contribution retirement savings plans portable.
Latest action. Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow distributions from certain tax-favored employer-sponsored retirement plans if a lifetime income investment or managed account investment is no longer authorized to be held as an investment option under the plan.
If a lifetime income or managed account investment is no longer authorized to be held as an investment option under the plan, the bill allows: (1) qualified distributions of a lifetime income investment or a managed account investment, or (2) distributions of a lifetime income investment in the form of a qualified plan distribution annuity contract.
A "qualified distribution" is a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to an eligible retirement plan. A "qualified plan distribution annuity contract" is an annuity contract purchased for a participant and distributed to the participant by an employer-sponsored retirement plan.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on October 2, 2017. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on October 2, 2017: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 115th Congress (2017-18), 442 of the 11,421 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 3.9 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
RICHARD NEAL (D-MA) introduced it on October 2, 2017, and 1 member has since signed on as a cosponsor.
They are 1 Republican.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on October 2, 2017, 3265 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 3265 days ago, on October 2, 2017.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 115th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2019 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers