1st Quarter - Report — AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES (2015)

Firm

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES

Client

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES

Income

—

Expenses

$50,000

Expense method

C: businesses, Internal Revenue Code section 162(e)

What was lobbied

5 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

International and domestic insurance capital requirements/standards; and financial stability oversight council re: impact of insurance asset management products.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
LAUREN SARPER	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); SENATE; Federal Reserve System; Government Accountability Office (GAO); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of

Retirement RET

Public plans and actuarial standards of practice; aging and bridging the gap on retirement; late retirement actuarial equivalence; qualified longevity annuity contracts in defined benefit plans; social security and women; improvements in the operation of IRC Section 436 while protecting funded status of pension plans; and mortality tables to calculate pension funding after 2015 (Section 430(h)(3) & Section 417(e)).

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
DONALD FUERST	—
CRAIG A HANNA	—
MATTHEW ROSS MULLING	—
WILLIAM RAPP	—

Contacted: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Government Accountability Office (GAO); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of; Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Federal Reserve System

Health Issues HCR

Small group expansion under ACA; long term care issues; potential adverse consequences on health insurance premium rate filings re: King v. Burwell case; risk sharing mechanisms under ACA; payment reform models; and ACA excise tax on high-cost employer plans.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
HEATHER JERBI	—
DAVID LINN	—
TIMOTHY MARTIN MAHONY	—
MATTHEW ROSS MULLING	—
WILLIAM RAPP	—
CORI UCCELLO	—

Contacted: Federal Reserve System; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Health case costs under Medicare; Medicare sustainability, Medicare benefit coverage and beneficiary characteristics.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—
CORI UCCELLO	—

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Treasury, Dept of; Government Accountability Office (GAO); Federal Reserve System; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Insurance INS

Terrorism Risk Insurance - FIO - certification process for terrorism events; reinsurance funding options and international models for terrorism coverage; and PBR and captive insurance arrangements.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CRAIG A HANNA	—

Contacted: Government Accountability Office (GAO); Treasury, Dept of; SENATE; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Federal Reserve System; Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.