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| 107-hr-5731 | 107 | hr | 5731 | To provide for additional benefits under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002. | Labor and Employment | 2002-11-14 | 2002-11-14 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1] | OR | D | W000793 | 0 | Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend temporary extended unemployment compensation (TEUC) program agreements through weeks of unemployment ending before April 1, 2003 (currently January 1, 2003).Sets an alternative trigger, based on total unemployment rate, for TEUC second-tier extended benefit periods for high unemployment States. | 2025-01-02T16:53:59Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5731 |
| 107-hr-5734 | 107 | hr | 5734 | Retirement Security Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-11-14 | 2002-11-14 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 0 | Retirement Security Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create a new Individual Retirement Security Program (Program) involving an Interim Investment Fund (IIF), established in the Treasury by this Act and governed by the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. Authorizes a participating individual and spouse, upon the attainment of a minimum deposit balance of $2,500 in the IIF to designate one or more personal retirement savings accounts, to which the Secretary of the Treasury shall make deposits from the IIF with respect to the individual according to prescribed formulae. Mandates that the Board divide the IIF into three accounts for investment in common stock and corporate bonds. Requires the Secretary to deposit into the IIF, from amounts otherwise available in the general fund of the Treasury, a total amount equal, in the aggregate, to 100 percent of the redirected social security taxes for such calendar year of each covered individual for such calendar year.Requires a reduction in Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance appropriations, according to a certain formula.Provides for adjustments to primary OASDI insurance amounts of such covered individuals with designated accounts in the IIF.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction in the case of an electing personal retirement savings account participant in an amount equal to 50 percent (up to $2,000) of the amount the individual contributed during the taxable year to a personal retirement savings account maintained, regardless of whether or not the taxpayer itemizes other deductions; (2) exclude from gross income any amount deposited in a personal retirement savings account; (3) include distributions in gross income as if they were social security benefits; and (4) provide for Program refundable credit.Amends SSA title II to provide for: (1) transfers of budget surpluses to the … | 2025-08-19T17:29:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5734 |
| 107-s-3141 | 107 | s | 3141 | Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-17 | 2002-10-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 6 | Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act - Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Insurance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make five-year grants to a State or local government to pay for the Federal share of the cost of carrying out projects that assist families by providing wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs.Family and Medical Leave Fairness Act of 2002 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to extend coverage to employees at worksites where the employer employs at least 25 (currently 50) employees at the worksite and within 75 miles of that worksite.Amends FMLA and Federal civil service law to entitle to leave those employees who must address the effects of domestic violence.Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2002 - Permits the Office of Personnel Management to contract with one or more employing agencies to conduct a demonstration project that provides paid leave for eligible individuals who are responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs. Requires the leave to last for at least six weeks during a 12-month period. | 2025-08-19T17:28:31Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3141 |
| 107-hr-5644 | 107 | hr | 5644 | To repeal certain provisions of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act) that permit the President to intervene in strikes and lock-outs. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-16 | 2002-10-16 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10] | OH | D | K000336 | 9 | Amends the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act) to repeal provisions that allow the President to intervene in strikes and lock-outs. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5644 |
| 107-hr-5653 | 107 | hr | 5653 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a reasonable correction period for certain security and commodity transactions under the prohibited transaction rules. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-16 | 2002-10-16 | Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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. | House | Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8] | OH | R | B000589 | 3 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to allow a correction period for certain security and commodity transactions under the prohibited transaction rules. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5653 |
| 107-hr-5678 | 107 | hr | 5678 | Airline Worker Relief Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-16 | 2002-10-17 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1914-1915) | House | Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8] | MN | D | O000006 | 28 | Airline Worker Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to certify a group of workers as eligible to apply for Federal employment adjustment assistance if the Secretary determines that a significant number or proportion of such workers have become totally or partially separated from employment with an air carrier or airport facility as a result of: (1) reductions in service by an air carrier, or closure of an airport, because of a terrorist action or security measure; or (2) a military conflict with Iraq. Includes among such adjustment assistance benefits continued health care coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) and other Federal employee health care programs.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program under which 75 percent of the premium for COBRA continuation coverage is provided for such individuals (with certain coverage limits and program requirements).Authorizes States to elect to provide temporary coverage under Medicaid programs for: (1) uninsured individuals who experience such separation from employment; or (2) the unsubsidized portion of COBRA continuation premiums for such individuals.Provides temporary extended unemployment compensation coverage for such individuals.Directs the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security to: (1) provide a preference for the hiring of such individuals as security screeners; and (2) carry out a program of performance incentive awards to Federal Security Managers to encourage the hiring of such employees. | 2025-08-19T17:30:44Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5678 |
| 107-s-3117 | 107 | s | 3117 | A bill to extend the cooling off period in the labor dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-16 | 2002-10-16 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] | MT | R | B001126 | 0 | Extends for an additional 30 days the court-ordered cooling off period in the labor dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILGU). | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3117 |
| 107-hr-5641 | 107 | hr | 5641 | Protecting Employees Against Violence Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-10 | 2002-10-10 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | House | Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2] | SC | R | W000795 | 1 | Protecting Employees Against Violence Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to revise the authority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with respect to employees and labor organizations engaged in or encouraging violent, coercive, or other potentially injurious actions.Prohibits the NLRB from ordering reinstatement of any employee who has engaged or is engaging in such actions.Directs the NLRB to revoke the exclusive bargaining status of any labor organization found to engage directly in or encourage the use of such actions.Provides for the seeking of injunctive relief if a labor organization is charged with directly engaging in or encouraging the use of violence.Requires that certain petitions for injunctive relief be sought within seven days after the filing of an unfair labor practice charge. | 2025-08-19T17:30:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5641 |
| 107-hr-5587 | 107 | hr | 5587 | To extend the program under which temporary extended unemployment compensation is provided, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-09 | 2002-10-09 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-21] | PA | R | E000187 | 19 | Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend temporary extended unemployment compensation (TEUC) payments through weeks of unemployment ending before April 1, 2003, but only for certain qualified individuals in States that meet high unemployment criteria. | 2025-01-02T16:53:46Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5587 |
| 107-hconres-500 | 107 | hconres | 500 | Expressing the sense of Congress that the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union should enter into mediation to resolve the ongoing west coast port shutdown and that other options should be taken if these negotiations fail. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-07 | 2002-11-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6] | MO | R | G000546 | 2 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) should enter into mediation, while adopting 24-hour extensions of the expired collective bargaining agreement; and (2) if a settlement is not reached, the President should direct the Attorney General to petition any U.S. district court having jurisdiction of these parties to enjoin a strike or lock-out or its continuation. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/500 |
| 107-s-3058 | 107 | s | 3058 | Energy Workers Compensation Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-04 | 2002-10-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9987-9991) | Senate | Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] | NM | D | B000468 | 7 | Energy Workers Compensation Act of 2002 - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) to provide for worker compensation benefit payments to contractor employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) who were exposed to toxic substances at DOE facilities. (This new subtitle D replaces the current provisions for DOE assistance to such employees in State workers compensation proceedings.) Requires DOE to review claims and determine causation within specified time limits (with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) continuing to appoint members of physician review panels for diagnosing such occupational illnesses). Directs the Secretary of Labor to pay such benefits from the EEOICPA fund for claimants approved by DOE. Requires the Secretaries of Energy and of Labor to ensure that such claims are resolved in a nonadversarial manner.Revises EEOIPA subtitle B program administration provisions to add as covered illnesses: (1) chronic renal disease, for uranium workers; (2) mercury disease, for workers employed at facilities utilizing more than 100 kilograms of mercury; and (3) lung cancer, among beryllium-related diseases. Revises provisions relating to: (1) a special exposure cohort expansion procedure; (2) the radioepidemiologic model for determining compensation; and (3) additional specified cancers.Provides for EEOIPA coordination with other Federal laws, including the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.Provides administrative assistance for claimants under either subtitle B or D, including administrative relief and proof where medical records are not available, resource centers, and outreach programs. Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of Labor the Office of the Ombudsman for Occupational Illness Compensation, which is to coordinate activities of the Secretaries of Labor, Energy, and HHS under EEOICPA. | 2025-08-19T17:28:24Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3058 |
| 107-sres-333 | 107 | sres | 333 | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate relating to a dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-04 | 2002-10-04 | Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9995) | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 20 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) should enter into mediation to resolve their dispute, adopt 24-hour extensions of the expired collective bargaining agreement, and end the current lockout; and (2) if the PMA and the ILWU do not reach a settlement or reopen the ports through that mediation during a reasonable period, as determined by the President, the President should appoint a board of inquiry, to begin the emergency dispute-settling procedure under the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-resolution/333 |
| 107-hr-5542 | 107 | hr | 5542 | Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-03 | 2002-11-02 | Became Public Law No: 107-275. | House | Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4] | PA | R | H001033 | 3 | Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to transfer part B black lung benefit responsibilities from the Commissioner of Social Security to the Secretary of Labor (thus consolidating all black lung benefit responsibility under the Secretary). (Current law makes the Commissioner responsible for part B benefits based on claims filed on or before December 31, 1973, and makes the Secretary responsible for part C benefits based on claims filed after such date.) | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5542 |
| 107-hr-5520 | 107 | hr | 5520 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide an exemption from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements for certain seasonal fireworks employees. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-02 | 2002-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 3 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to make minimum wage and maximum hours requirements inapplicable to seasonal employees working at facilities or locations where the primary source of revenue comes from sale of fireworks directly to consumers. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5520 |
| 107-hr-5529 | 107 | hr | 5529 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans. | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-02 | 2002-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] | IN | D | V000108 | 5 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans, with equal representation of the interests of the employer or employers maintaining the plan and of the those of the participants and their beneficiaries. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5529 |
| 107-s-3028 | 107 | s | 3028 | Employee Pension Bankruptcy Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-10-02 | 2002-10-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] | AL | R | S001141 | 2 | Employee Pension Bankruptcy Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to allow representatives of employees and retirees to appear and be heard before the bankruptcy court to protect the benefits to which they are entitled as participants or beneficiaries under a pension plan. Permits this in cases where the debtor is the sponsor of an employee pension benefit plan under certain provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and such plan is likely to be terminated under title IV of ERISA or substantially underfunded by the debtor, resulting in a hardship to the participants or beneficiaries.Allows the representative to be heard with respect to a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the debtor or with respect to a plan of reorganization. Permits such participants and beneficiaries to employ counsel and other professionals who shall be compensated from the debtor's estate. | 2025-08-19T17:29:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3028 |
| 107-hr-5491 | 107 | hr | 5491 | Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-26 | 2002-09-26 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15] | NY | D | R000053 | 54 | Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA, which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend the TEUCA program through weeks of unemployment ending before July 1, 2003 (currently January 1, 2003).Entitles eligible individuals in all States to a total of 26 weeks of TEUCA compensation (13 weeks beyond the current 13 weeks).Provides an additional seven weeks of TEUCA benefits for workers in high unemployment States (entitling them to a total of 33, which is 20 weeks beyond the current 13).Applies a revised adjusted insured unemployment rate State trigger. Sets an additional TEUCA benefit period State trigger based on total unemployment rate. | 2025-08-19T17:31:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5491 |
| 107-hr-5493 | 107 | hr | 5493 | Reform of Energy Workers Compensation Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-26 | 2002-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6] | OH | D | S001004 | 17 | Reform of Energy Workers Compensation Act - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) to provide for worker compensation benefit payments to contractor employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) who were exposed to toxic substances at DOE facilities. (This new subtitle D replaces the current provisions for DOE assistance to such employees in State workers compensation proceedings.) Requires DOE to review claims and determine causation within specified time limits (with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) continuing to appoint members of physician review panels for diagnosing such occupational illnesses). Directs the Secretary of Labor to pay such benefits from the EEOICPA fund for claimants approved by DOE. Requires the Secretaries of Energy and Labor to ensure that such claims are resolved in a nonadversarial manner.Revises EEOIPA subtitle B program administration provisions to add as covered illnesses: (1) chronic renal disease, for uranium workers; and (2) lung cancer, among beryllium-related diseases. Revises provisions relating to: (1) a special exposure cohort expansion procedure; (2) the radioepidemiologic model for determining compensation; and (3) additional specified cancers.Provides administrative assistance for claimants under either subtitle B or D, including administrative relief and proof where medical records are not available, resource centers, and outreach programs. Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of Labor the Office of the Ombudsman for Occupational Illness Compensation, which is to coordinate activities of the Secretaries of Labor, Energy, and HHS under EEOICPA. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5493 |
| 107-s-3009 | 107 | s | 3009 | Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-26 | 2002-10-09 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10137-10139) | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 33 | Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA, which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend the TEUCA program through weeks of unemployment ending before July 1, 2003 (currently January 1, 2003).Entitles eligible individuals in all States to a total of 26 weeks of TEUCA compensation (13 weeks beyond the current 13 weeks).Provides an additional seven weeks of TEUCA benefits for workers in high unemployment States (entitling them to a total of 33, which is 20 weeks beyond the current 13).Applies a revised adjusted insured unemployment rate State trigger. Sets an additional TEUCA benefit period State trigger based on total unemployment rate. | 2025-08-19T17:27:54Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3009 |
| 107-s-3010 | 107 | s | 3010 | A bill to provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding the investment of their pension plan assets, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-26 | 2002-09-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] | IN | D | B001233 | 0 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for information and advice to assist pension plan participants in making decisions regarding the investment of their pension plan assets under defined contribution plans that are individual account plans (IAPs) (401(k) and similar plans) which hold regularly tradable employment securities and permit participants or beneficiaries to exercise control over assets in the account.Requires the plan administrator to include in the account statement a notice that the account may be overinvested in employer securities and real property, whenever assets consisting of employer securities and real property exceed 50 percent of total IAP assets. Excludes from such notice requirement: (1) assets held through pooled investment vehicles; and (2) employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that have no contributions subject to section 401 (k) or (m) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).Amends IRC to limit to$1,500 the aggregate amount which may be excluded from gross income with respect to qualified retirement planning services (QRPS) provided to any individual during a taxable year. Prohibits exclusion of any such amount if the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $100,000 ($200,000 for married individuals filing a joint return). Provides that no amount (constructive receipt) shall be included in the gross income of any employee solely because the employee may choose between any QRPS provided by a qualified investment advisor, and compensation which would otherwise be includible in the employee's gross income. Applies such provision to highly compensated employees only if such choice is available on substantially the same terms to each member of the group of employees normally provided education and information regarding the employer's qualified employer plan. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/3010 |
| 107-hres-544 | 107 | hres | 544 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on permanency of pension reform provisions. | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-24 | 2002-09-25 | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. | House | Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1] | OK | R | S001155 | 0 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should complete action in the 107th Congress on the Retirement Security Savings Act of 2002 and should present such legislation to the President for his signature prior to adjournment, so that workers can be assured that certain pension reforms under current law, which are permanently extended by such Act, will not be eliminated. | 2025-04-07T13:39:47Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-resolution/544 |
| 107-hr-5418 | 107 | hr | 5418 | Employment Security Reform Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-19 | 2002-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. | House | Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4] | LA | R | M000388 | 0 | Employment Security Reform Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to revise Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) employer excise tax rate requirements. Reduces the current FUTA employer tax rate of 6.2 percent of total employee wages before the State credit and 0.8 after the State credit to: (1) 6.0 and 0.6 in 2003 and 2004; (2) 5.8 and 0.4 in 2005 and 2006; and (3) 5.6 and 0.2 in 2007 and each succeeding calendar year.Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to repeal certain State law extended benefit requirements.Revises requirements relating to funding and administration of unemployment compensation and public employment service systems under the Social Security Act (SSA), the Wagner-Peyser Act, and IRC FUTA.Amends SSA title IX provisions (also known as the Reed Act) to revise special Reed Act transfers in FY 2004 and 2005. Repeals: (1) special rules for State Reed Act appropriation laws; (2) special conditions on recent Reed Act distributions; and (3) restoration authority.Provides for transfer of Federal equity in State employment security agency real property to the States.Provides for: (1) IRC treatment of short-time compensation programs; (2) IRC treatment of pension rollovers for purposes of unemployment compensation determinations; and (2) Federal disclosure, under SSA, of certain information in the National Directory of New Hires to assist in State administration of unemployment compensation programs.Repeals provisions of Federal civil service law that limit the eligibility of certain Federal employees for unemployment compensation and employment services. | 2026-03-23T12:44:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5418 |
| 107-hres-540 | 107 | hres | 540 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should complete action on H.R. 3762, the Pension Security Act of 2002. | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-19 | 2002-09-25 | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. | House | Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3] | MS | R | P000323 | 86 | Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should complete action in the 107th Congress on the Pension Security Act of 2002 and present it to the President for his signature before adjournment. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-resolution/540 |
| 107-hr-5373 | 107 | hr | 5373 | Informed Union Member Enforcement Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-12 | 2002-09-18 | Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 8 - 6. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 3 | Informed Union Member Enforcement Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to direct the Secretary of Labor to: (1) investigate any written complaint of a member alleging that a labor organization has violated requirements to inform its members of their rights; and (2) without disclosing the identity of the complainant, bring a civil action for relief upon determining that such violation has occurred and has not been remedied. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5373 |
| 107-hr-5374 | 107 | hr | 5374 | Informed Union Member Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-09-12 | 2002-09-18 | Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 8 - 6. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 3 | Informed Union Member Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require a labor organization to provide information on the Act to: (1) each new member within 90 days after the member has joined the labor organization; and (2) all members periodically in a manner which the Secretary of Labor determines will promote a fuller understanding of the member's rights and judicial remedies under the Act. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5374 |
| 107-s-2875 | 107 | s | 2875 | A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to increase the maximum levels of guaranteed single-employer plan benefits, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 2002-08-01 | 2002-08-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 2 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise requirements for single-employer plans to: (1) increase the maximum level of guaranteed benefits; (2) require that certain supplemental benefits not be treated as non-basic benefits; and (3) index maximum guaranteed benefits under plans or amendments not in effect for 60 months. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2875 |
| 107-s-2892 | 107 | s | 2892 | Economic Security Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-08-01 | 2002-08-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 12 | Economic Security Act 2002 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147) (TEUCA) to: (1) establish a program of temporary enhanced unemployment compensation benefits; (2) require States to modify their compensation laws to include recently earned wages in base periods, allow compensation for those seeking part-time work, and increase benefits levels by the greater of 15 percent or $25 a week; (3) reimburse States for administrative expenses; (4) extend the TEUCA program; (5) entitle individuals to 26 weeks of TEUCA compensation; (6) apply a revised rate of insured unemployment; (7) set an additional TEUCA benefit period trigger; (8) provide an additional seven weeks of benefits for workers in high unemployment States; (9) repeal a requirement for 20 weeks of work; (10) provide that individual is not ineligible for emergency compensation because of a subsequent entitlement to regular benefits for which the individual does not file; and (11) provide an additional extension of TEUCA assistance.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for no reduction in unemployment compensation as a result of pension rollovers.Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA) to: (1) repeal certain State law extended benefit requirements; (2) revise the definition of rate of insured unemployment; (3) entitle individuals to 13 weeks of unemployment compensation; (4) lower the extended benefit on-indicator; and (5) require a study and report on unemployment insurance benefits provided to individuals who have received assistance under the temporary assistance for needy families program. | 2025-08-19T17:31:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2892 |
| 107-sconres-137 | 107 | sconres | 137 | A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners of the teams of Major League Baseball to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, to lockout, or any conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | Labor and Employment | 2002-08-01 | 2002-09-04 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | Senate | Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA] | GA | D | M001141 | 0 | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should immediately: (1) offer its services to the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association and the MLB team owners to resolve labor contract disputes over entering into a collective bargaining agreement; and (2) use its best efforts to bring the parties to agree to such contract without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any other conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/137 |
| 107-hr-5208 | 107 | hr | 5208 | Adult Job Corps Demonstration Program Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-24 | 2002-11-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. | House | Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16] | TX | D | R000170 | 5 | Adult Job Corps Demonstration Program Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an Adult Job Corps demonstration program for the U.S.-Mexico border area for adults adversely affected by the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Requires such program to be: (1) within the Department of Labor, under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; and (2) in the United States, within 100 miles of the Mexican border, with two centers in Texas and one center each in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. | 2026-03-23T12:44:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5208 |
| 107-sconres-130 | 107 | sconres | 130 | A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners of the teams of Major League Baseball to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-23 | 2002-07-23 | Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7231) | Senate | Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA] | GA | D | M001141 | 0 | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should immediately: (1) offer its services to the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association and the MLB team owners to resolve labor contract disputes over entering into a collective bargaining agreement; and (2) use its best efforts to bring the parties to agree to such contract without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any other coercion that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/130 |
| 107-hconres-444 | 107 | hconres | 444 | Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-17 | 2002-10-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6] | GA | R | I000055 | 27 | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should immediately: (1) offer its services to the Major League Baseball Players Association and the team owners who are members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to resolve labor contract disputes over entering into a collective bargaining agreement; and (2) use its best efforts to bring the parties to agree to such contract without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any other coercion that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/444 |
| 107-hr-5152 | 107 | hr | 5152 | To extend the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-17 | 2002-07-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. Quinn, Jack [R-NY-30] | NY | R | Q000016 | 17 | See summary of: H.R. 3593 | 2025-01-02T16:52:47Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5152 |
| 107-hr-5110 | 107 | hr | 5110 | Omnibus Corporate Reform and Restoration Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-12 | 2002-10-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 20 | Omnibus Corporate Reform and Restoration Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to revise standards for pension plan security for defined contribution plans (DCPs).Specifies a waivable limit to the amount of employer stock and real property which may be acquired and held with respect to the individual account each participant or beneficiary, in the case of DCPs that are individual account plans (IAPs) (401(k) and similar plans).Allows employees to diversify assets in employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) after five years (currently ten) and at age 35 (currently 55).Reduces the tax deduction for employer matching contributions to DCPs (other than ESOPs) when such contributions are made in employer securities.Exempts from certain prohibited transaction rules the provision of fiduciary investment advice to participants or beneficiaries who direct their investments.Requires IAPs to provide for plan investment committees, whose members shall be elected by plan participants.Directs the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to study the feasibility of, and options for developing, an insurance system for IAPs.Requires IAP trades in employer securities to be reported to participants and beneficiaries.Amends the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit issuers of equity securities from making loans or other extensions of credit to beneficial owners, officers, or directors.Amends Federal bankruptcy law to increase, from $4,000 to $15,000, the individual maximum limit on priority claims for wages and for contributions to employee benefit plans.Provides criminal penalties for: (1) destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy; and (2) destruction of corporate audit records. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5110 |
| 107-hr-5089 | 107 | hr | 5089 | Unemployment Extension Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-10 | 2002-07-10 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15] | NY | D | R000053 | 42 | Unemployment Extension Act of 2002 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend temporary extended unemployment compensation (TEUC) program agreements through weeks of unemployment ending before June 30, 2003 (currently January 1, 2003).Revises the formula for determining the amount in an eligible individual's TEUC account. Sets such amount at the lesser of: (1) the total (currently half of the total) amount of regular compensation, including dependents' allowances, payable to the individual during the individual's benefit year; or (2) 26 (currently 13) times the individual's average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. Augments an individual's account by half (currently all) of the amount originally established in that account if it is exhausted at the time a State is in an extended benefit period. | 2025-08-19T17:29:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5089 |
| 107-s-2714 | 107 | s | 2714 | A bill to extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-09 | 2002-09-26 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9429-9430) | Senate | Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] | NY | D | C001041 | 9 | Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend temporary extended unemployment compensation (TEUC) program agreements through weeks of unemployment ending before June 30, 2003 (currently January 1, 2003).Revises the formula for determining the amount in an eligible individual's TEUC account. Sets such amount at the lesser of: (1) the total (currently half of the total) amount of regular compensation, including dependents' allowances, payable to the individual during the individual's benefit year; or (2) 26 (currently 13) times the individual's average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. Increases an individual's account by half (currently all) of the amount originally established in that account if it is exhausted at the time a State is in an extended benefit period. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2714 |
| 107-s-2715 | 107 | s | 2715 | A bill to provide an additional extension of the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief an Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-09 | 2002-11-12 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 749. | Senate | Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] | NY | D | C001041 | 6 | Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to extend from 39 to 52 the number of weeks of unemployment assistance to be made available to eligible individuals (after the President's declaration of the major disaster resulting from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001). | 2025-04-07T13:37:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2715 |
| 107-hr-5065 | 107 | hr | 5065 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit Indian tribal courts, pursuant to tribal domestic relations laws, to alienate or assign benefits under retirement plans. | Labor and Employment | 2002-07-08 | 2002-07-08 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-6] | AZ | R | H000413 | 0 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define a "domestic relations order" as any judgment, decree, or order which relates to the provision of child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights to a spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a (retirement plan) participant, and is made pursuant to the domestic relation law of a State or Indian tribe (currently, is made pursuant to a State domestic relations law), thus allowing Indian tribal courts to alienate or assign benefits under retirement plans. | 2025-01-02T16:52:29Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5065 |
| 107-s-2707 | 107 | s | 2707 | Women's Pension Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-28 | 2002-06-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 3 | Women's Pension Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to require the spouse's consent for distributions from defined contribution plans (DCPs, which include individual account plans such as 401(k) plans). (Current law only requires such consent in the case of defined benefit plans). Applies joint and survivor annuity rules to DCPs.Provides for division of pension benefits upon divorce, including rules for treating: (1) subsequent qualified domestic relations orders; and (2) former spouses as surviving spouses in certain cases.Revises requirements for joint and survivor annuities. Requires pension plans to offer participants the option of a qualified joint and 3/4 survivor annuity (as an alternative to the current qualified joint and survivor annuity).Amends Federal law relating to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to provide for a survivor annuity to widows, widowers, and certain former spouses of Federal employees who die after having separated from the service with title to a deferred annuity under CSRS, but before attaining the age for such annuity under it (on the same basis as is currently provided to certain survivors of former Members of Congress). Revises CSRS and Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) requirements for court orders relating to Federal employee retirement benefits for former spouses.Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to: (1) entitle divorced spouses to railroad retirement annuities independent of the actual entitlement of the employees; and (2) extend the payment of any portion of Tier II railroad retirement benefits to surviving former spouses pursuant to divorce agreements. | 2025-08-19T17:29:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2707 |
| 107-s-2685 | 107 | s | 2685 | Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-26 | 2002-06-27 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6129-6130) | Senate | Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] | WV | D | R000361 | 0 | Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2002 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act, with respect to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981, to eliminate exceptions to: (1) the applicability of certain provisions regarding rebuttable presumptions; and (2) the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim. | 2025-08-19T17:31:35Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2685 |
| 107-hr-5015 | 107 | hr | 5015 | Rural Self-Sufficiency and Workforce Advancement Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-25 | 2002-11-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. | House | Rep. Clayton, Eva M. [D-NC-1] | NC | D | C000494 | 0 | Rural Self-Sufficiency and Workforce Advancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promote workforce development in rural areas and assist low-income residents of rural communities in moving from welfare to work, by making competitive grants to eligible applicants for: (1) rural transitional jobs programs; and (2) implementing rural workforce investment plans.Makes appropriations for both these grant programs.Requires rural transitional jobs program grantees to: (1) reimburse employers for wages and payroll taxes (100 percent for nonprofit employers and 50 percent for for-profit employers); (2) pay the greater of the applicable Federal or State minimum wage for a relevant minimum or maximum number of hours per week; (3) limit the number of participants in the employer's workforce, and not displace other employees; (4) limit to 12 months the maximum period of a participant's employment in such a position; and (5) prepare annual reports. Requires such grantees also to provide each participant with an individual plan of services to prepare for positions available in the local economy offering potential advancement and growth, including: (1) counseling, training, and services for six to 15 hours per week during the 24-month period beginning when the participant is placed in such a transitional employment position; and (2) a stipend based on the hourly wage earned in the position and the number of hours of counseling, training, and services participated in that week.Requires rural workforce investment plan grantees to: (1) implement plans approved by the Secretary for various authorized activities; and (2) prepare annual reports. | 2026-03-23T12:44:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5015 |
| 107-hr-4994 | 107 | hr | 4994 | Skills and Training Promotion Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-21 | 2002-06-21 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Baldacci, John Elias [D-ME-2] | ME | D | B000081 | 6 | Skills and Training Promotion Act - Authorizes Federal payments to States for certain portions of a State's special unemployment assistance for individuals participating in qualified worker training programs.Provides for payment agreements between the Secretary of Labor and States that: (1) have a State unemployment compensation law approved by the Secretary; and (2) are required by State law to pay such special assistance to such trainees. | 2025-08-19T17:31:45Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4994 |
| 107-hr-4978 | 107 | hr | 4978 | Senior IRA and Pension Preservation Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-20 | 2002-06-20 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14] | TX | R | P000583 | 0 | Senior IRA and Pension Preservation Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 70 1/2 to 80 the age: (1) used in the definition of "required beginning date" utilized with respect to qualified pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans; (2) certain deceased employees would have reached (had they lived) before their spouses must begin receiving distributions from qualified pension plans; (3) at or above which an individual's qualified retirement contribution cannot be deducted from income; (4) above which an individual in whose name an endowment contract is purchased must mature, in order to be treated as an endowment contract; (5) even after which contributions to a Roth IRA in an individual's name can still be made; and (6) at least until which amounts will not be available to participants or beneficiaries in a Section 457 plan for the plan to count as an eligible deferred compensation plan. | 2025-08-19T17:31:30Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4978 |
| 107-hr-4931 | 107 | hr | 4931 | Retirement Savings Security Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-06-13 | 2002-06-25 | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 441. | House | Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2] | OH | R | P000449 | 1 | Retirement Savings Security Act of 2002 - Makes the sunset provisions in Title IX of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 inapplicable to the pension and individual retirement provisions in Title VI of that Act, which are thus made permanent. | 2025-08-19T17:28:37Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4931 |
| 107-s-2563 | 107 | s | 2563 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to the interest rate range for additional funding requirements, and for other purposes. | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-23 | 2002-05-23 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4853) | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 2 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to apply to 2001 the 2002 and 2003 special interest rate range for additional funding requirements for pension plans by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).Amends ERISA to revise the formula for determining such range.Amends the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 to establish special rules relating to funding liability percentages and the mortality table to be used for purposes of determining unfunded vested benefits. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2563 |
| 107-hr-4799 | 107 | hr | 4799 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-22 | 2002-10-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Bonior, David E. [D-MI-10] | MI | D | B000619 | 49 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2002 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.75 an hour beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.25 an hour during the year beginning on January 1, 2003; and (3) $6.65 an hour beginning January 1, 2004.Makes Federal minimum wage requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sets forth a transition period during which a specified minimum wage there shall be gradually increased to equal the Federal minimum wage. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4799 |
| 107-hr-4811 | 107 | hr | 4811 | Recreational Marine Employment Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-22 | 2002-10-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8] | FL | R | K000361 | 15 | Recreational Marine Employment Act of 2002 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act with respect to employer liability for death and disability compensation payable to longshore, harbor workers, and other specified marine employees not otherwise covered by State workers compensation laws. Excludes from the definition of employee any individuals employed by or at, or engaged in the construction or maintenance of, a recreational marine facility or structure. Expands the range of individuals whose work is concerned with recreational vessels who do not qualify as employees, including people who principally buy and sell such vessels.Makes such exclusions contingent on the employer's being in compliance with a State workers' compensation law. (Presently they are contingent on workers' being covered under such a law).Modifies requirements for third part actions against vessels for negligence to apply them only to injuries to maritime workers who do not qualify as seamen under specified Federal law. (Presently they apply to injuries to all persons covered under the Act). | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4811 |
| 107-s-2538 | 107 | s | 2538 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-22 | 2002-05-23 | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 385. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 39 | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2002 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.75 an hour beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.25 an hour during the year beginning on January 1, 2003; and (3) $6.65 an hour beginning January 1, 2004.Makes Federal minimum wage requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sets forth a transition period during which a specified minimum wage there shall be gradually increased to equal the Federal minimum wage. | 2025-08-19T17:32:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2538 |
| 107-s-2549 | 107 | s | 2549 | A bill to ensure that child employees of traveling sales crews are protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-22 | 2002-11-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | Senate | Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] | WI | D | K000305 | 3 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit minors from being employed in door-to-door sales, or related support work, that would require them to remain away from their permanent residences for more than 24 hours. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2549 |
| 107-sconres-115 | 107 | sconres | 115 | A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that all workers deserve fair treatment and safe working conditions, and honoring Dolores Huerta for her commitment to the improvement of working conditions for children, women, and farm worker families. | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-21 | 2002-05-22 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 5 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that all workers deserve fair treatment and safe working conditions.Honors Dolores Huerta for her commitment to the improvement of working conditions for children, women, and farm worker families. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/115 |
| 107-hr-4778 | 107 | hr | 4778 | Pension Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-20 | 2002-09-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large] | VT | I | S000033 | 44 | Pension Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to undertake enforcement actions with respect to requirements for pension plan participation, vesting, benefit accrual, and funding, including an appropriate enforcement response in connection with a report on oversight of certain cash balance plan lump sum distributions.Directs the Secretary, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop improved guidance for defined benefit plan administrators, with respect to requirements for such plans which express accrued benefits in the form of an account balance, including further assistance relating to all factors involved in determining lump sum distributions of accrued benefits. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4778 |
| 107-hr-4762 | 107 | hr | 4762 | Hour's Pay for an Hour's Work Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-16 | 2002-09-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10] | NJ | D | P000149 | 3 | Hour's Pay for an Hour's Work Act of 2002 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to condition an exemption from overtime requirements for certain drivers upon their being paid at least the minimum wage. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4762 |
| 107-hr-4768 | 107 | hr | 4768 | Garment Consumer's Right-to-Know Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-16 | 2002-09-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12] | NY | D | V000081 | 16 | Garment Consumer's Right-to-Know Act of 2002 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish recordkeeping and disclosure requirements for apparel manufacturers with respect to wages, hours, and other labor conditions of their contractors' employees. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4768 |
| 107-s-2468 | 107 | s | 2468 | Sectoral Market Assessment for Regional Training Enhancement and Revitalization Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-07 | 2002-05-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] | WA | D | C000127 | 1 | Sectoral Market Assessment for Regional Training Enhancement and Revitalization Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make skills gap capacity grants to States to assist local boards and regional consortia, through certain partnerships, to make: (1) strategic sectoral skills gap assessments; (2) strategic skills gap action plans; and (3) strategic training capacity enhancement seed grants to providers of training services. | 2025-08-19T17:30:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2468 |
| 107-s-2469 | 107 | s | 2469 | A bill to amend section 171(b)(1)(D) the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide for training service and delivery innovation grants. | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-07 | 2002-05-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] | WA | D | C000127 | 0 | Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to allow the use of certain demonstration and pilot project grant and contract funds for targeted innovations in access and delivery of training and employment services, emphasizing use of advanced technologies for connecting individuals to information and tools to upgrade skills. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2469 |
| 107-hr-4636 | 107 | hr | 4636 | Workers' Bill of Rights | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-01 | 2002-07-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. | House | Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-10] | GA | R | N000159 | 25 | Workers' Bill of Rights - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to add provisions relating to: (1) an employer's recognition of a labor organization as representative of workers for collective bargaining and other purposes; (2) limitation on dues collection; (3) membership right to vote on a contract before a strike is called; (4) penalties for causing recognition of an unelected labor organization; (5) secret ballot election; (6) the lifting of a bar against an election once an existing contract has been in effect for one year or more; (7) majority deauthorization of union security agreements; and (8) enforcement of limits on dues agreements.Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to include coverage of employers, or groups or associations of employers, that receive Federal funds. Gives employees who are not union members, but who are core dues payers, the same right as any union member to participate in any vote that concerns a strike or wages, benefits, or working conditions. Revises provisions relating to availability of information. Allows a trusteeship (for authorization control of a union) to be authorized only after a fair hearing either before the executive board or another body provided by the constitution and bylaws of the labor organization. Requires a labor organization to show by clear and convincing proof that the continuation of the trusteeship is necessary for an allowable purpose.Amends the Clayton Act to provide that nothing shall make it lawful for any two or more labor organizations to enter into an agreement that restrains an employee's ability to select a collecting bargaining representative. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4636 |
| 107-s-2435 | 107 | s | 2435 | Preservation of Civil Rights Protections Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-05-01 | 2002-05-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 3 | Preservation of Civil Rights Protections Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Arbitration Act to exclude all employment contracts from arbitration provisions (current law excludes employment contracts of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce).Makes clauses in employment contracts that require arbitration of a dispute arising under the Constitution or U.S. laws unenforceable, with exceptions: (1) where the parties knowingly and voluntarily consent to submit a dispute to arbitration after the dispute arises; and (2) with regard to an employee or union enforcing any rights or terms of a valid collective bargaining agreement. | 2025-08-19T17:29:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2435 |
| 107-hr-4550 | 107 | hr | 4550 | Small Business and Dislocated Worker Opportunity Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-23 | 2002-04-23 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Baldacci, John Elias [D-ME-2] | ME | D | B000081 | 1 | Small Business and Dislocated Worker Opportunity Act of 2002 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to declare that participation in self-employment assistance activities by certain adversely affected workers certified under the trade adjustment assistance program shall not affect their eligibility to receive trade adjustment assistance benefits. Prohibits the payment of a trade readjustment allowance to an adversely affected worker who engages in self-employment activities, or who has engaged in such activities during any part of the certification period, for any week occurring after the close of the 26-week period that begins on the date of the establishment of the small business or, if on the date of such establishment the worker has fewer than 26 weeks remaining of eligibility for receipt of trade readjustment allowances, the close of the remaining number of weeks. Prescribes a formula for calculation of such an allowance during the certification period.Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) to provide that a self-employment assistance program shall not be considered to conform to IRC requirements solely because it expressly or in effect waives the requirement that eligible individuals be identified as likely to exhaust regular unemployment compensation in the case of individuals certified under the trade adjustment assistance program pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974. | 2025-08-19T17:30:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4550 |
| 107-hr-4551 | 107 | hr | 4551 | Life Insurance Employee Notification Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-23 | 2002-07-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29] | TX | D | G000410 | 52 | Life Insurance Employee Notification Act - Requires an employer to notify an employee in writing upon the purchase of an employer-owned insurance policy on the life of such employee for a beneficiary other than the individual who is the subject of the policy.Declares that violation of this Act constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4551 |
| 107-hr-4482 | 107 | hr | 4482 | Universal and Portable Pension Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-18 | 2002-04-18 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3] | MO | D | G000132 | 5 | Universal and Portable Pension Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a limited deduction for an individual's qualified universal retirement contributions. Reduces deductible amount based on adjusted gross income. Sets forth special rules for calculating the maximum allowable deduction by certain married individuals. Defines the term "qualified universal retirement contribution." Limits deductions for: (1) persons over age 70 1/2; (2) rollover contributions; and (3) inherited accounts.Defines the term "Universal Retirement Savings Account." Includes Universal Retirement Savings Account distributions in gross income except when the distributions are part of an immediate annuity, rollover, qualified higher education expense, or first home purchase.Requires employers to offer programs which make payments to Universal Retirement Savings Accounts in exchange for salary reductions. Provides a general business tax credit to certain small employers who offer salary reduction arrangements for Universal Retirement Savings Accounts.Establishes a refundable Universal Retirement Savings Account contribution credit for individuals equal to a specified percentage of contributions. Caps such credits at $2,000 per year. Allows a $200 credit maximum for contributions made to Universal Retirement Savings Accounts of dependents.Repeals the $2,000 nonrefundable qualified retirement account credit. | 2025-08-19T17:31:50Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4482 |
| 107-s-2184 | 107 | s | 2184 | A bill to provide for the reissuance of a rule relating to ergonomics. | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-17 | 2002-06-19 | Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | Senate | Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA] | LA | D | B000780 | 37 | Directs the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with specified provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, to issue a final rule relating to ergonomics. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2184 |
| 107-s-2185 | 107 | s | 2185 | A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide workers with individual account plans with information on how the assets in their accounts are invested and of the need to diversify the investment of the assets. | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-17 | 2002-04-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2839) | Senate | Sen. Cleland, Max [D-GA] | GA | D | C001034 | 0 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require individual account plan administrators to provide quarterly statements to participants and beneficiaries which include information on how their account assets are invested and on the need to diversify such investments. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2185 |
| 107-s-2190 | 107 | s | 2190 | WIRE Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-17 | 2002-04-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000148 | 3 | Worker Investment Retirement and Education Act of 2002 (or the WIRE Act) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, with certain specified exceptions, an excise tax in cases where: (1) administrators of applicable defined contribution plans do not provide, at least once annually, information on basic investment guidelines to participants; and (2) a plan with at least 100 participants does not provide a personalized benefit statement to each participant at least annually. Establishes similar requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.Sets forth diversification requirements for certain plans holding employer securities.Establishes a tax for failure of applicable plans to meet certain notice and data requirements, with certain specified exceptions. Permits a waiver of the taxes by the Secretary of the Treasury.Forbids trading of equity securities (other than exempted securities) acquired by an individual through employment (or other specified associations) with an issuer during blackout periods of an applicable plan.Establishes in the Internal Revenue Service an "Office of Pension Participant Advocacy." | 2025-08-19T17:32:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2190 |
| 107-hr-4235 | 107 | hr | 4235 | Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-16 | 2002-07-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3] | WV | D | R000011 | 6 | Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2002 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act, with respect to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981, to eliminate exceptions to: (1) the applicability of certain provisions regarding rebuttable presumptions; and (2) the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4235 |
| 107-hr-4373 | 107 | hr | 4373 | Keep America Working Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-16 | 2002-04-16 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] | WA | D | M000404 | 16 | Keep America Working Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the circumstances under which employment compensation is available to provide coverage due to the following, among other, circumstances, part-time employment, seasonal work, loss of employment due to sexual harassment, loss of child care, leaving work due to domestic violence, and base period employment of less than 20 hours per week.Redefines the term "wages" for purposes of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.Repeals provisions: (1) allowing past Internal Revenue Service audits to act as the basis for current employment status determinations; (2) prohibiting regulations and rulings on employment status; and (3) outlining the determination of an employer's liability for certain employment taxes.Permits unemployment compensation where separation from work is due to a spouse or domestic partner's change in residence. Specifies manner for computation of wage replacement ratios.Amends the Social Security Act to require increases and decreases in the earnings allocated to State accounts when States meet or fail to meet funding goals.Lowers the threshold for triggering an extended benefit period. Eliminates special Federal eligibility requirements for individuals seeking compensation in an extended benefit period.Defines contents of unemployment compensation reports submitted by States. Establishes a review panel to compare States' unemployment compensation systems. | 2025-08-19T17:29:44Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4373 |
| 107-hr-4181 | 107 | hr | 4181 | Vested Worker Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-11 | 2002-04-11 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Gutknecht, Gil [R-MN-1] | MN | R | G000536 | 6 | Vested Worker Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to mandate that an "applicable pension plan" adopting any amendment that reduces rates of future benefits provide: (1) written notice meeting certain requirements to participants; and (2) that the participants be offered the chance to elect to continue to accrue benefits under the terms in effect immediately before the amendment. Defines "accrued benefit" as an early retirement benefit or retirement-type subsidy meeting certain standards. Defines "applicable pension plan" as a defined benefit plan or an individual account plan with at least 100 active participants meeting certain funding standards and other restrictions.Requires plans to inform participants of the option of staying under the old terms at least 90 days before the effective date of the amendment. Exempts a plan from the above requirements if its sponsor can show the Secretary of the Treasury that each employer contributing to the plan meets certain distress termination conditions under regulations of the Secretary.Imposes an excise tax on plans that adopt amendments decreasing benefits and do not let participants elect to continue to accrue benefits under the old terms. Makes the plan liable for such tax in the case of a multiemployer plan, and the employer liable in any other case. | 2025-08-19T17:32:04Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4181 |
| 107-hr-4104 | 107 | hr | 4104 | Community Workforce Development and Modernization Partnership Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-04-09 | 2002-09-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. | House | Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9] | IN | D | H001030 | 13 | Community Workforce Development and Modernization Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make competitive matching grants to eligible consortia (partnerships) to: (1) help workers improve job skills necessary for employment by businesses in the industry with respect to which the entity was established; (2) help dislocated workers find employment; and (3) upgrade the operating and competitive capacities of businesses that are members of the partnership.Requires such partnerships to include: (1) two or more businesses (or nonprofit organizations representing businesses) facing similar workforce development or business modernization challenges; (2) labor organizations, if such businesses employ workers covered by collective bargaining agreements; and (3) one or more businesses (or nonprofit organizations representing businesses) with resources or expertise that bear on such workforce development and business modernization challenges. Allows inclusion of: (1) State and local governments; (2) educational institutions; (3) labor organizations; or (4) nonprofit organizations.Requires priority consideration for partnerships that: (1) serve dislocated workers or workers threatened with becoming totally or partially separated from employment; (2) include businesses with fewer than 250 employees; or (3) are from a geographic region that has been adversely impacted by the movement of manufacturing operations or businesses to other regions or countries, due to corporate restructuring, technological advances, Federal law, international trade, or other factors.Sets forth partnership program requirements and authorized activities for workforce development and business modernization. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance and seed grants to help establish such partnerships; and (2) undertake outreach and promotional activities for purposes of this Act. | 2026-03-23T12:44:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4104 |
| 107-hr-4053 | 107 | hr | 4053 | To assure more equitable results in union elections. | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-20 | 2002-06-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 3 | Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to authorize a court to declare an election void upon a finding that a violation of election procedural requirements under the Act may have substantially understated or overstated the support of one of the candidates for office in a labor organization to the point that the democratic purposes of the election were undermined. (Replaces the current criterion that such violation may have affected the election outcome.) | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4053 |
| 107-hr-4054 | 107 | hr | 4054 | To provide for civil monetary penalties in certain cases. | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-20 | 2002-07-18 | Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 8 - 5. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 3 | Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to authorize the Secretary of Labor, upon finding a violation of specified reporting and disclosure requirements (regarding constitution and bylaws, financial reports, securities, reports of the employer, and trusteeships), to require the person, labor organization or employer responsible to pay a civil money penalty in an amount determined under a schedule that takes into account the nature of the violation involved, the existence of previous violations, and the responsible entity's revenues.Prohibits the Secretary from making any determination adverse to a person, labor organization, or employer until such person or entity has been given written notice and an opportunity to be heard. Specifies review procedures. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4054 |
| 107-hr-4055 | 107 | hr | 4055 | To enhance notification to union members of their rights under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-20 | 2002-06-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] | TX | R | J000174 | 4 | Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require a labor organization to provide information on the Act to: (1) each new member within 90 days after the member has joined the labor organization; and (2) all members periodically in a manner which the Secretary of Labor determines will promote a fuller understanding of the member's rights and judicial remedies under the Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) investigate any written complaint of a member alleging that the organization has violated such requirement; and (2) without disclosing the identity of the complainant, bring a civil action for relief upon finding probable cause to believe that such violation has occurred and has not been remedied. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4055 |
| 107-hr-3992 | 107 | hr | 3992 | Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-19 | 2002-10-02 | Committee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-23] | NY | R | B000586 | 42 | Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to require the establishment of a new office within the United States Fire Administration to administer the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Firefighter grant program under this Act.Authorizes the U.S. Fire Administrator to make grants to States, local governments, Indian tribal governments, other public entities, and multijurisdictional or regional consortia thereof to increase career firefighter presence and enhance their ability to save lives, property, and effectively respond to all types of emergencies.Limits such grants to three years and their use for programs to hire new, additional career firefighters. Requires grantees to commit to retaining such career firefighters for at least one year beyond the termination of their grants. | 2025-08-19T17:33:04Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3992 |
| 107-hr-4008 | 107 | hr | 4008 | Living Organ Donor Job Security Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-19 | 2002-06-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Thurman, Karen L. [D-FL-5] | FL | D | T000253 | 16 | Living Organ Donor Job Security Act of 2002 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow leave for living organ donation. Includes among authorized leave time spent for: (1) tests for medical suitability of the eligible employee; (2) physical, psychological, and social evaluations of the donor; (3) pre-transplant outpatient services; (4) post-operative inpatient and outpatient transplantation services; (5) travel in connection with such tests, evaluations, and services; and (6) recuperation. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4008 |
| 107-s-2032 | 107 | s | 2032 | INFORM Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-19 | 2002-03-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] | IL | D | D000563 | 0 | Investor-Employees Need Financial Facts and Options for Responsible Retirement Plan Management Act of 2002 - INFORM Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to set forth requirements for disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under defined contribution plans that are individual account plans (IAPs) (401(k) and similar plans).Requires pension plan administrators to provide certain benefit information to participants or beneficiaries periodically. Requires plan sponsors and administrators to provide all material investment information to participants and beneficiaries, in an accurate form, as required to be disclosed to investors under applicable securities laws, and treats misleading investment information as a violation.Establishes diversification standards for certain IAPs holding employer stock and real property.Requires notification of, and signing of risk acknowledgment forms by, participants or beneficiaries whenever assets consisting of employer securities and real property exceed 30 percent of total IAP assets. Directs the Secretary of Labor to study and report on investment of IAP assets in employer securities.Requires IAP fiduciaries to give 60 days notice to plan participants and beneficiaries before a lockdown limiting their control over their account assets, and limits the maximum duration of any such lockdown to ten consecutive business days. Makes employers liable for excessive losses by IAPs on employer securities during lockdowns.Requires each fiduciary of an IAP to be bonded or insured to cover financial losses due to failures to meet certain ERISA requirements. Requires joint boards of trustees, representing interests of employers, employee participants, and beneficiaries, to hold in trust the assets of single-employer IAPs whose assets derive from employee contributions. Prohibits: (1) waiver of rights or claims under ERISA, with specified exceptions; and (2) interference with such rights.Establishes an Office of Pension Participa… | 2025-08-19T17:28:50Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/2032 |
| 107-hr-3986 | 107 | hr | 3986 | To extend the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-18 | 2002-03-25 | Became Public Law No: 107-154. | House | Rep. Quinn, Jack [R-NY-30] | NY | R | Q000016 | 20 | Directs the President to make unemployment assistance available for 39 weeks after the major disaster is declared to individuals eligible under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | 2026-02-10T13:37:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3986 |
| 107-hr-3982 | 107 | hr | 3982 | Steel Workers Relief Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-14 | 2002-06-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17] | OH | D | T000350 | 0 | Steel Workers Relief Act of 2002 - Amends federal law to appropriate 50 percent of all revenues from tariffs the President recently imposed on steel products to health care coverage for certain workers who lost health benefits due to losing their jobs and who are receiving specified employment services. Permits family members of displaced workers to receive coverage who would have had it but for the displacement. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3982 |
| 107-hr-3918 | 107 | hr | 3918 | Pension Improvement Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-07 | 2002-05-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2] | OH | R | P000449 | 3 | Pension Improvement Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise requirements for reporting and disclosure with respect to defined contribution pension plans (including individual account plans, such as 401(k) plans), as well as for defined benefit plans; and (2) reduce premiums charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to certain employers providing defined benefit pension plans.Requires plan administrators to provide pension benefit statements: (1) for individual account plans, at least once annually to participants, and upon request to beneficiaries; and (2) for defined benefit plans, at least once every three years to employee participants with nonforfeitable accrued benefits, and upon request to participants or beneficiaries.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) provide (together with the Secretary of Labor) simplified annual filing requirements for certain retirement plans with one participant or for fewer than 25 employees; (2) update the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System; and (3) prescribe or modify certain regulations. Exempts plans maintained by any governmental entity from certain nondiscrimination rules. Revises ERISA provisions relating to the National Summit on Retirement Savings.Directs the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to issue missing participant rules for multiemployer plans. Reduces PBGC premiums for new plans of small employers and for new and small plans. Authorizes the PBGC to pay interest on premium overpayment refunds. Revises rules for substantial owner benefits in terminated plans. Sets forth civil penalties for certain breaches of fiduciary duty. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3918 |
| 107-hr-3919 | 107 | hr | 3919 | Pension Interest Rate Relief Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-07 | 2002-05-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2] | OH | R | P000449 | 5 | Pension Interest Rate Relief Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 by increasing, for plan years beginning 2001 through 2004, the permissible interest rate range used to determine additional funding requirements for certain benefit plans which are not multiemployer plans.Sets forth a special rule regarding the interest rate used to determine liability for plan years beginning in 2005.Amends the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 to establish special rules relating to funding liability percentages and the mortality table to be used for purposes of determining unfunded vested benefits. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3919 |
| 107-s-1992 | 107 | s | 1992 | Protecting America's Pensions Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-06 | 2002-07-26 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 525. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 14 | Protecting America's Pensions Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for diversification of assets, disclosure, account access, and accountability under defined contribution plans (DCPs) that are individual account plans (IAPs) (401(k) and similar plans).Title I: Improvements in Diversification of Plan Assets - Sets forth requirements for diversification of pension plan assets.(Sec. 101) Requires IAPs to offer at least three investment options in addition to the option to invest in publicly-tradable employer securities or employer real property. Requires IAPs to grant a participant or beneficiary the right to reinvest such assets in such alternative ways: (1) immediately, in the case of employee contributions and elective deferrals; and (2) after not more than three years of service, in the case of employer contributions other than elective deferrals. Exempts from such requirement employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that do not hold employee elective or employer matching contributions.Directs the Secretary of Labor to make recommendations to specified congressional committees as to whether diversification requirements under this section and section 102 of this Act should also apply to nonpublicly-tradable employer securities and, if so, whether there are legislative changes necessary to reflect differences between such securities and publicly-tradable ones.(Sec. 102) Allows IAPs either to permit employees' elective deferrals to be invested in employer securities or to make the employer's contribution in employer securities, but prohibits an IAP from doing both. Exempts from such limitation employers who maintain a qualified defined benefit plan (DBP) in addition to the DCP coverage of the IAP. Qualifies such DBPs if they: (1) cover at least 90 percent of the employees covered by the IAP; and (2) pay a minimum accrued benefit to each participant, as determined under a specified formula.(Sec. 103) Exempts IAP sponso… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1992 |
| 107-hr-3841 | 107 | hr | 3841 | Displaced Worker Assistance Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-05 | 2002-03-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-21] | CA | R | T000188 | 0 | Displaced Worker Assistance Act of 2002 - Provides for assistance to displaced workers through a temporary extension of unemployment benefits and a health insurance tax credit.Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 - Establishes a temporary extended unemployment compensation (TEUC) program.Amends Social Security Act provisions relating to transfers of funds from the Federal unemployment account to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund to: (1) repeal certain provisions added by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and (2) provide for special transfers in FY 2002.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a displaced worker health insurance credit. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to make advance payments to providers of health insurance on behalf of individuals eligible for such credit.Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make: (1) a grant to each State that has not created a qualified high risk pool, for the State's costs of creation and initial operation of such a pool; and (2) a matching grant to cover 50 percent of the losses incurred by a State in operating such a pool it has established that restricts the premiums charged to no more than 150 percent of the premium for applicable standard risk rates and that offers a choice of two or more coverage options. Requires, in the application of specified provisions and alternative State mechanisms under PHSA, increased access to health insurance for individuals eligible for the displaced worker health insurance credit, through the use of guaranteed issue, qualified high risk pools, and other appropriate State mechanisms.Declares that this Act shall have no impact on the Social Security trust funds. Designates certain amounts under this Act as emergency requirements under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. | 2025-08-19T17:29:13Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3841 |
| 107-s-1978 | 107 | s | 1978 | Retirement Security Advice Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-03-01 | 2002-03-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1394-1396) | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 3 | Retirement Security Advice Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to allow prohibited transaction exemptions under specified conditions to: (1) a fiduciary adviser's providing certain investment advice to an employee benefit plan or to a participant or beneficiary of such plan; (2) sale, acquisition, or holding of securities or other property (including any lending of money or other extension of credit associated with these) pursuant to such advice; and (3) direct or indirect receipt of fees or other compensation by the fiduciary adviser or an affiliate in connection with providing such advice.Qualifies the following as such fiduciary advisers if they satisfy applicable laws: (1) registered investment advisers; (2) banks; (3) insurance companies; (4) registered broker-dealers; (5) affiliates of such entities; or (6) employees, agents, or registered representatives of such entities. Requires fiduciary advisers to keep for six years records necessary to determine whether the conditions of the exemption have been met.Requires such a fiduciary adviser to disclose: (1) fees or other compensation it receives relating to the provision of investment advice or a resulting sale or acquisition of securities or other property, including from third parties; (2) any interest it has and its affiliates have in any security or other property recommended, purchased, or sold; (3) any limitation placed on its ability to provide advice; (4) the advisory services offered; (5) that it is acting as a fiduciary of the plan in connection with the provision of such advice; and (6) any information required to be disclosed under applicable securities laws. Requires such disclosure to be: (1) written to be understandable by the average plan participant; and (2) maintained in currently accurate form.Allows any such investment advice provided to participants or beneficiaries to be implemented only at their direction. Requires the terms of the transaction to be at least as f… | 2025-08-19T17:30:51Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1978 |
| 107-s-1971 | 107 | s | 1971 | National Employee Savings and Trust Equity Guarantee Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-27 | 2002-08-02 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 552. | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 0 | National Employee Savings and Trust Equity Guarantee Act - Title I: Diversification of Pension Plan Assets - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a defined contribution plan holding publicly traded securities to provide employees with: (1) the opportunity to divest employer securities; and (2) at least three investment options other than employer securities.Title II: Protection of Employees During Pension Plan Transaction Suspension Period - Imposes a tax on the failure of a pension plan to provide notice to employees of any transaction suspension period of three or more consecutive business days in which there is a significant restriction on the right of plan participants to direct investments in the plan, obtain loans from the plan, or obtain distributions from the plan. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a model notice.(Sec. 202) Amends ERISA to deny relief from fiduciary liability during a transaction suspension period, unless it is an authorized transaction suspension period.(Sec. 203) Apportions relief to each participant in a plan where there is a breach of fiduciary responsibility.(Sec. 204) Doubles the bond amount required for fiduciaries.Title III: Providing of Information to Assist Participants - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the IRC and ERISA to impose a tax on the failure of a plan to provide required benefit statements.(Sec. 302) Taxes a plan for failing to provide required investment information. Directs the Secretary to develop a model of basic guidelines for retirement investing.(Sec. 303) Directs the Secretary to issue regulations requiring a plan providing optional forms of benefits to provide a statement comparing the relative values of each form of benefit.(Sec. 304) Requires a plan ensure that each plan participant and is provided with all material investment information regarding investment of such assets in employer securities.(Sec. 305) Requires the disclosure of employer stock insider tradi… | 2025-04-07T13:37:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1971 |
| 107-s-1969 | 107 | s | 1969 | Pension Security Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-26 | 2002-02-27 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1248) | Senate | Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR] | AR | R | H001015 | 5 | Pension Security Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require individual account plans, including those with cash or deferred arrangements under IRC section 401(k), to furnish quarterly pension benefit statements to plan participants and beneficiaries with rights to direct investments.Requires individual account plan administrators to give 30 days notice (except in specified circumstances) to plan participants and beneficiaries before a period (lockdown, blackout) in which their ability to divest or diversify assets control over their account assets will be limited. Provides that, during such lockdown periods, employers are not exempt from liability for failing in fiduciary duty with respect to individual account plan investments; but states that this loss of exemption from liability is not triggered by any limitations or restrictions on employee ability to divest or diversify assets, if such limitations or restrictions are disclosed to participants and beneficiaries through summary plan description or materials describing specific investment alternatives under the plan.Amends ERISA and IRC to prohibit individual account plans from acquiring or holding employer securities with respect to which there is any restriction on divestment by a participant or beneficiary after the participant has completed three years of plan participation. Exempts employee stock ownership plans (ESOPS) from this prohibition.Allows ERISA prohibited transaction exemptions under specified conditions to: (1) a fiduciary adviser's providing certain investment advice to an employee benefit plan or to a participant or beneficiary of such plan; (2) sale, acquisition, or holding of securities or other property (including any lending of money or other extension of credit associated with these) pursuant to such advice; and (3) direct or indirect receipt of fees or other compensation by the fiduciary adviser or an affiliate in connection with providing such advice.Amends the Securities Exchange Act of … | 2026-02-10T13:37:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1969 |
| 107-hr-3762 | 107 | hr | 3762 | Pension Security Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-14 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8] | OH | R | B000589 | 33 | Pension Security Act of 2002 - Title I: Improvements in Pension Security - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require individual account plans (IAPs), including those with cash or deferred arrangements under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 401(k), to furnish quarterly pension benefit statements to plan participants and beneficiaries with rights to direct investments.(Sec. 102) Requires IAP administrators to give 30 days notice (except in specified circumstances) to plan participants and beneficiaries before a period of suspension (or lockdown or blackout) in which their ability to divest or diversify assets control over their account assets will be limited. Provides that, during such lockdown periods, employers are not exempt from liability for failing in fiduciary duty with respect to IAP investments. Declares that this loss of exemption from liability, however, is not triggered: (1) if the person authorizing the suspension meets certain requirements, including considering the reasonableness of the expected period, providing notice, and acting solely in the interests of plan participants and beneficiaries in determining to enter it; or (2) by any limitations or restrictions on employee ability to divest or diversify assets, if such limitations or restrictions are disclosed to participants and beneficiaries through summary plan description or materials describing specific investment alternatives under the plan.(Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to provide informational and educational support for pension plan fiduciaries.(Sec. 104) Amends ERISA and IRC to set forth diversification requirements for IAPs that hold employer securities readily tradable on an established market. (Exempts from such requirements employee stock ownership plans unless they hold employer stock attributable to employee elective deferrals or employer matching contributions.) Allows participants and beneficiaries, if employer securities are held in an IAP through employee co… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3762 |
| 107-hr-3692 | 107 | hr | 3692 | Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-07 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 0 | See summary of: H.R. 3640 | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3692 |
| 107-s-1919 | 107 | s | 1919 | Retirement Security Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-07 | 2002-06-06 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 107-817. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | Retirement Security Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to set forth requirements for disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under defined contribution plans that are individual account plans (401(k) and similar plans).Requires pension plan administrators to provide certain benefit information to participants or beneficiaries periodically. Requires plan sponsors (employers) and plan administrators to provide all material investment information to participants and beneficiaries, in an accurate form, as required to be disclosed to investors under applicable securities laws, and treats misleading investment information as a violation.Establishes diversification standards for certain individual account plans holding employer stock and real property. Determines allowable employer asset percentages through formulas which include plan assets in defined benefit plans as well as those in defined contribution plans. Provides exceptions for certain employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).Prohibits requiring a participant in or beneficiary of an individual account plan to invest employee contributions or elective deferrals, or earnings allocable to either, in employer assets. Requires individual account plans, if they permit participants or beneficiaries to exercise control over their plan account assets, to also allow, after one year of employee service, reinvestment of any employer contribution of employer assets in other investment options offered by the plan.Requires individual account plan fiduciaries to give 30 days notice to plan participants and beneficiaries before a lockdown limiting their control over their account assets, and limits the maximum duration of any such lockdown to ten business days. Limits fiduciary exceptions to liability during lockdown periods. Prohibits corporate executives from trading employer securities during lockdown periods.Requires each fiduciary of an individual account plan to be bonded or insured in an amoun… | 2025-08-19T17:29:53Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1919 |
| 107-s-1921 | 107 | s | 1921 | Pension Plan Protection Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-07 | 2002-02-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX] | TX | R | H001016 | 4 | Pension Plan Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to retirement plans to, among other things: (1) require plans to offer at least four different investment options, including three options which do not involve the acquisition or holding of qualifying employer securities or qualifying employer real property; (2) prohibit plans from requiring employees to invest employee contributions in employer securities; (3) permit employees to divest plan assets 90 days following allocation of employer securities or property when the employee has a 100 percent nonforfeitable right to the employee's accrued benefit derived from employer contributions; (4) require plans to provide specified quarterly statements; (5) set standards concerning investment advice provided by fiduciary advisors; (6) require plans to provide 30 days notice before a blackout period (a temporary limitation on the ability of a plan participant who has met minimum participation requirements to transfer nonforfeitable accrued benefits from investment in employer securities to another investment option); and (7) prohibit corporate executives from trading securities or derivatives during a blackout period.Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit an independent public accountant that performs for an entity an auditing service required under the securities laws, rules, or regulations from providing to such entity any other service not directly related to the performance of the auditing service. | 2026-02-10T13:37:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1921 |
| 107-hr-3677 | 107 | hr | 3677 | Safeguarding America's Retirement Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-05 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-21] | PA | R | E000187 | 2 | Safeguarding America's Retirement Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit individual account plans which include cash or deferred arrangements, under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 401(k), from using employee contributions to acquire or hold more than ten percent of their value in employer securities.Requires such plans to give a participant or beneficiary whose nonforfeitable accrued benefit attributable to employee contributions is invested in whole or in part in employer securities a reasonable opportunity periodically (at least quarterly) to invest such accrued benefit in investment vehicles, other than employer securities, selected to permit diversification.Prohibits plan sponsors, administrators, or other fiduciaries from imposing any lockdown in connection with the nonforfeitable accrued benefit of a participant or beneficiary.Amends ERISA and IRC to provide for vesting (a nonforfeitable right to all of the participant's accrued benefits) of elective deferrals under such plans for participants who have completed three years of plan participation. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3677 |
| 107-hr-3678 | 107 | hr | 3678 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemption from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act for certain construction engineering and design professionals. | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-05 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. | House | Rep. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC-3] | SC | R | G000359 | 1 | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to set forth conditions for exemption of employees who are construction engineering and design professionals from minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements. Includes among such conditions specified types of: (1) professional education, licensing, certification, or work experience; (2) duties; and (3) services provided. | 2026-03-23T12:47:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3678 |
| 107-hr-3681 | 107 | hr | 3681 | Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Benefits Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-05 | 2002-03-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime. | House | Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5] | OR | D | H000762 | 27 | Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Benefits Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include as a "public safety officer" for purposes of provisions governing death benefits a volunteer civilian member of the Civil Air Patrol engaged in: (1) active service rendered in performance or support of operational missions of the Patrol under the direction of the Department of the Air Force and performed consistent with written authorization that specifies a finite assignment; or (2) travel to or from such service. | 2025-08-19T17:31:30Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3681 |
| 107-hr-3669 | 107 | hr | 3669 | Employee Retirement Savings Bill of Rights | Labor and Employment | 2002-02-04 | 2002-04-09 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 232. | House | Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2] | OH | R | P000449 | 21 | Employee Retirement Savings Bill of Rights - Title I: Defined Contribution Plan Protections - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a retirement plan, in the case of a plan permitting a participant to direct the investment of all or some of his or her account, or a plan in which a participant's accrued benefit depends on hypothetical investments directed by the participant, to provide investment education notices on at least a quarterly basis and on enrollment in the plan. Establishes a tax of $100 per plan participant for failure to provide such notice.(Sec. 102) Establishes an excise tax on the failure of a pension plan to provide notice of transaction restriction periods, with special rule for employer securities.(Sec. 103) Requires a plan holding employer securities to: (1) permit a participant to reinvest the applicable percentage of employer securities annually (from 20 percent in 2003 to 100 percent in years 2007 and thereafter); (2) offer at least three investment options other than employer securities; and (3) permit elections at least quarterly.(Sec. 104) Provides, with respect to the treatment of qualified retirement planning services, that no amount shall be included in the gross income of any employee solely because the employee may choose between any qualified retirement planning services provided by a qualified investment advisor and compensation which would otherwise be includible in the gross income of such employee.(Sec. 105) Provides for a delayed effective date for amendments made by this title for plans maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.Title II: Other Tax Provisions Relating to Pensions - Modifies the special funding rule under the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 for plans sponsored by a company engaged primarily in interurban or interstate passenger bus service by making the rule permanent and treating the plan as meeting certain levels of funded.(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor to modify the requirements for filing a… | 2025-08-19T17:28:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3669 |
| 107-hr-3640 | 107 | hr | 3640 | Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-29 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8] | NJ | D | P000096 | 3 | Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) limit to 20 percent the portion of funds which may be invested in the employer's stock and real property by an employee's individual account plans, including those which include cash or deferred arrangements under Internal Revenue Code section 401(k) and (2) allow an employee to direct the plan to divest the employee's account of such employer securities or property and to reinvest an equal amount in other assets, at any time after 90 days following allocation of employer securities or real property to the employee's individual account plan. Exempts employee stock ownership plans (ESOPS) from these new ERISA provisions.Amends Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employees to diversify assets in ESOPS after five years, and after they've reached age 35 (but requires a trustee-to-trustee transfer for those under age 55); and (2) reduce by 50 percent the allowable deduction for employer matching contributions to defined contribution plans made in employer securities. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3640 |
| 107-hr-3642 | 107 | hr | 3642 | 401(k) Pension Right to Know Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-29 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Bonior, David E. [D-MI-10] | MI | D | B000619 | 2 | 401(k) Pension Right to Know Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require plan administrators of individual account plans that include a cash or deferred arrangement under section 401(k)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code (401(k) plans) to make semiannual reports to participants and beneficiaries that: (1) fully and accurately disclose the financial health of the plan sponsor; and (2) advise them of the importance of diversifying investment of their plan assets and of the risk of holding securities of any one entity, including employer securities, in their portfolio. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3642 |
| 107-hr-3657 | 107 | hr | 3657 | Employee Pension Freedom Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-29 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 78 | Employee Pension Freedom Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to set forth requirements for disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under defined contribution plans that are individual account plans (401(k) and similar plans).Requires pension plan administrators to provide certain benefit information to participants or beneficiaries periodically. Requires plan sponsors (employers) and plan administrators to provide all material investment information to participants and beneficiaries, in an accurate form, as required to be disclosed to investors under applicable securities laws, and treats misleading investment information as a violation.Requires individual account plans that permit participants or beneficiaries to exercise control over their account assets to grant them the right to allocate all their nonforfeitable accrued benefits which are readily tradable employer securities to any investment option provided under the plan.Reduces, from three years to one year, the maximum vesting period for individual account plans (so that an employee who has completed at least one year of service has a nonforfeitable right to all of the employee's accrued benefit derived from employer contributions). Requires individual account plan fiduciaries to give 30 days notice to plan participants and beneficiaries before a lockdown limiting their control over their account assets, and limits the maximum duration of any such lockdown to ten business days.Requires each fiduciary of an individual account plan to be bonded or insured in an amount sufficient to ensure coverage of financial losses due to failures to meet certain ERISA requirements. Requires joint boards of trustees, representing interests of employers and those of employee participants and beneficiaries, to hold in trust the assets of single-employer plans which are individual account plans with some or all assets derived from employee contributions. Makes liable anyone who participates in or conceals c… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3657 |
| 107-hr-3623 | 107 | hr | 3623 | Employee Savings Protection Act of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-24 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Bentsen, Ken [D-TX-25] | TX | D | B000400 | 8 | Employee Savings Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit certain knowing misrepresentations by pension plan fiduciaries to participants or beneficiaries relating to the present or expected valuation of employer securities, in the case of individual account plans that include cash or deferred arrangements under section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.Makes a fiduciary exemption liable (by removing an exemption) for any loss resulting from any exercise of control by participants or beneficiaries over assets in their accounts undertaken in reliance on such a misrepresentation.Applies this Act to misrepresentations made on or after January 1, 2000.Amends Federal law relating to bankruptcy to protection of unsecured claims by employees under such ERISA provisions for liability of fiduciaries for such misrepresentations. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3623 |
| 107-hr-3632 | 107 | hr | 3632 | Worker's Freedom of Choice Act | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-24 | 2002-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6] | CO | R | T000458 | 1 | Worker's Freedom of Choice Act - Prohibits labor unions or employers subject to valid labor agreements from receiving, soliciting, or accepting payment of dues or fees not related to exclusive representation and core purposes, including collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment (notwithstanding an exception under the National Labor Relations Act relating to union security agreements which require payment of union dues or fees as a condition of employment). Gives a right of civil action to employees who dispute the amount so collected by labor organizations. Requires employers to post notice of such prohibition against labor unions using dues or fees, which are collected as conditions of employment, for any activities not necessary to performing their duties of exclusive representation of employees in dealing with employers on labor-management issues (union duties).Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require every labor union to attribute and report expenses by function classification, verified by independent audit, in enough detail to allow its members to determine whether such expenses were necessary to perform such union duties. Requires disclosure under such Act to employees required to pay any union dues or fees under a union security agreement as well as to union members.Prohibits labor union retaliation or coercion against any employee for exercising any right granted or protected by this Act. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3632 |
| 107-hconres-300 | 107 | hconres | 300 | Employees and Retirees Restoration and Assistance Resolution of 2002 | Labor and Employment | 2002-01-23 | 2002-03-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 0 | Employees and Retirees Restoration and Assistance Resolution of 2002 - Expresses the sense of Congress regarding: (1) investigation of alleged wrongdoings related to Enron Corporation's economic collapse; (2) compensation by anyone found to have illegally withheld information or disseminated misleading information regarding Enron's financial condition to Enron employees who suffered losses in its 401(k) retirement plan as a result of such illegal conduct; and (3) efforts to provide financial assistance to the workers laid off as a result of Enron's economic collapse. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/300 |
| 107-hr-3593 | 107 | hr | 3593 | To extend the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | Labor and Employment | 2001-12-20 | 2001-12-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8] | NY | D | N000002 | 0 | Directs the President to make unemployment assistance available to individuals eligible under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for 52 weeks after the major disaster is declared. | 2025-04-07T13:40:51Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3593 |
| 107-s-1872 | 107 | s | 1872 | A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to notify plan participants and beneficiaries of the commencement of proceedings to terminate such plan. | Labor and Employment | 2001-12-20 | 2001-12-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] | IN | D | B001233 | 0 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to direct the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to notify affected parties of the commencement of PBGC proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan, within 30 days after the PBGC notifies a plan administrator regarding such proceedings.Requires the plan administrator to provide the PBGC with a list of the names and addresses of all participants and beneficiaries of such a plan. Requires the PBGC to provide: (1) written notice to each affected party of the plan; (2) notice in the two newspapers with the largest circulation in the area of the majority of the affected parties; and (3) the proposed date and the procedure for such intended termination. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1872 |
| 107-s-1848 | 107 | s | 1848 | Homestead Preservation Act | Labor and Employment | 2001-12-19 | 2001-12-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13704) | Senate | Sen. Allen, George [R-VA] | VA | R | A000121 | 0 | Homestead Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of low-interest loan (residential) mortgage assistance to eligible persons who are separated from their employment. | 2026-02-10T13:37:26Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1848 |
| 107-hr-3509 | 107 | hr | 3509 | Retirement Account Protection Act of 2001 | Labor and Employment | 2001-12-18 | 2002-03-19 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Bentsen, Ken [D-TX-25] | TX | D | B000400 | 7 | Retirement Account Protection Act of 2001 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise fiduciary duties with respect to pension plans that are specified types of eligible individual account plans, including employee stock ownership plans that are among qualifying plans under section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), but excluding, with certain exceptions, individual retirement accounts or annuities (IRAs) under section 408 of IRC.Prohibits sponsors, administrators, or other fiduciaries of such plans, unless they apply for and obtain exemptions from the Secretary of Labor, from imposing any lockdown (including a blackout, freeze, suspension, or similar limitation) on participants' or beneficiaries' ability to transfer their nonforfeitable accrued benefits from investment in the form of qualifying employer securities to other investment vehicles otherwise available under the terms of the plan. Prohibits the Secretary from granting such an exemption without finding that it is: (1) administratively feasible; (2) in the interests of the plan, participants, and beneficiaries; and (3) protective of participant and beneficiary rights. Prohibits any such lockdown from taking effect until at least 90 days after written notice (which may include notice by means of electronic communication) is provided by the plan administrator to such participants or beneficiaries.Directs the Secretary to study, and report with recommendations to Congress on, the feasibility of statutory limits on investment of individual account plan assets in stock or other securities issued by the employer. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3509 |
| 107-s-1838 | 107 | s | 1838 | Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2001 | Labor and Employment | 2001-12-18 | 2001-12-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. | Senate | Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] | CA | D | B000711 | 2 | Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2001 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) limit to 20 percent the portion of funds which may be invested in the employer's stock and real property by an employee's individual account plans under section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code; and (2) allow an employee to direct the plan to divest the employee's account of such employer securities or property and to reinvest an equal amount in other assets, at any time after 90 days following allocation of employer securities or real property to the employee's individual account plan. Exempts employee stock ownership plans (ESOPS) from these new ERISA provisions.Amends Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employees to diversify assets in ESOPS after five years, and after they've reached age 35 (but requires a trustee-to-trustee transfer for those under age 55); and (2) reduce by 50 percent the allowable deduction for employer matching contributions to defined contribution plans made in employer securities. | 2025-08-19T17:31:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1838 |
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