HR 1009 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 6, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Peter T. King R-NY

Latest action · Apr 23, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 6, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue guidance clarifying that a length of service award program is not an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Cosponsors 32

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2013 to Sep 18, 2014; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	William L. Owens	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		May 9, 2013
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 14, 2013
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 14, 2013
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 14, 2013
D-NY	Paul Tonko		May 15, 2013
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 15, 2013
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		May 16, 2013
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jun 6, 2013
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Jun 17, 2013
R-NY	Chris Collins		Jul 19, 2013
R-IA	Tom Latham		Sep 17, 2013
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Oct 28, 2013
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Feb 3, 2014
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Mar 12, 2014
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		May 7, 2014
R-MI	Fred Upton		May 19, 2014
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		May 19, 2014
D-IL	William L. Enyart		May 19, 2014
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		May 22, 2014
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Sep 18, 2014

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2013
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2013
	Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee	Referred Apr 23, 2013
	Workforce Protections Subcommittee	Referred Apr 23, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 6, 2013Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2013Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1321.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 506	Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013	Related bill	Mar 7, 2013

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide recruitment and retention incentives for volunteer emergency service workers.
Short Titles as Introduced: Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 6, 2013Introduced in House

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