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Consumer Issues/Safety/Products: Public Law 111-203, H.R. 4173- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Issue: Implementation, Global Capital Standards and Regulatory reform. S. __ - Data Care Act. The legislation would establish duties of care, loyalty, and confidentiality, and a violation of the duties would be treated as a violation of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule with fine authority. Issue: Data Privacy H.R.__/S.__ Online Privacy Act - The legislation would provide for individual rights relating to privacy of personal information, to establish privacy and security requirements for covered entities relating to personal information, and to establish an agency to be known as the Digital Privacy Agency to enforce such rights and requirements. Issue: Data Privacy H.R. __/S. __ DELETE Act - This bill would establish a centralized system to allow individuals to request the simultaneous deletion of their personal information across all data brokers. Issue: Data Privacy. H.R. 5511/S.__ - Algorithmic Accountability Act. This bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to require impact assessments of automated decision systems and augmented critical decision processes. Issue: Algorithmic Accountability. H.R. 6356/S. 3308 - Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act. The bill would establish protections for individual rights with respect to computational algorithms. Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI). H.R. __ - Responsible AI Disclosure Act. The bill would require the Federal financial agencies to carry out a study and report on standardized descriptions for vendor-provided artificial intelligence systems. Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI). S. 2750 - SANDBOX Act. To require the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a Federal regulatory sandbox program for artificial intelligence. Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI). H.R. 8413 - SECURE Data Act. To establish a national framework for consumer privacy rights and the protection of personal data. Issue: Data Privacy H.R. 8398 - Guidelines for Use, Access, and Responsible Disclosure of Financial Data Act. The bill would make improvements to title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Issue: Data Privacy. S. 1582. GENIUS Act. This bill establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins (digital assets which an issuer must redeem for a fixed value). Issue: Digital Assets. H.R.___ and S.___ - Draft data privacy legislation. Issue: Data Privacy H.R. __ - Draft cybersecurity legislation. Issue: Cybersecurity Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Issue: Business interruption insurance. Issue: Draft legislation that would require notice of data security breaches. Issue: Cybersecurity and Privacy.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities: Public Law 111-203, H.R. 4173 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Issue: Implementation and Regulatory reform. Captive Reinsurance Transactions, Insurance Capital Standards and Global Capital Standards. Roles of federal and state agencies at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and the Financial Stability Board. Implementation of S. 2270 - Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014. The bill would give the Federal Reserve the authority to tailor capital standards for insurance companies subject to Fed supervision. Issue: Capital Standards, Basel III Implementation of S. 2155 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. Issue: Implementation and regulatory reform of the financial services industry. Implementation of H.R. 748 - the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Issue: CECL, TDR, Remote Online Notarization, SBA loans. H.R.1777/S. 1561 - Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act. To authorize and establish minimum standards for electronic and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court located in a State to recognize notarizations performed by a notary public commissioned by another State when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notary public commissioned by another State when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce or when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding of the State in which the notary public was commissioned. Issue: remote online notarization. H.R. 2441 - Improving Disclosure for Investors Act - This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose and finalize rules to allow entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors electronically. The SEC must establish a mechanism for investors to opt out of electronic delivery and receive paper documents instead. If the SEC does not finalize rules within one year after enactment, the bill allows for electronic delivery of these documents. Issue: Electronic delivery. H.R. 1013/S.424 - Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 2025 - The bill would allow 403(b) plans to invest in Collective Investment Trusts or Separate Accounts that establishes investment parity with other defined contribution plans, like 401(k)s. Issue: Retirement security H.R.20/S.852 - Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act. To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. Issue: independent contractor status. H.R. 3682/S. 3578 - Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2025. This bill will restore transparency to FSOC by imposing procedural guardrails, including enhanced due process protections, and a stronger analytic framework before a firm can be designated as systemically important. Issue: Dodd-Frank Act reform. H.R. 8338 - SAFER Act of 2026. To prevent the premature seizure of an individuals securities, digital assets, or investment accounts in the custody of a financial institution under State escheatment laws. Issue: unclaimed property. H.R.9471 /S. 4942 SAFE Banking Act - This bill would create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses. Issue: Cannabis legislation H.R. ____, the Consumer-Led Enhancement of Annuity and Insurance Registration (CLEAR) Forms Act. The bill would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to create forms for non-variable registered annuities and life insurance products. Issue: SEC reform S. __ - SAFER Banking Act - This bill would create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses. Issue: Cannabis legislation. H.R. __ - Expanding Access to Capital Act - This bill reduces various securities regulations applicable to certain companies, brokers, and advisors. The bill also allows more investors to invest in specified types of ventures. Issue: Capital reform. S. __ - Protecting Innovation in Investment Act - To prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to conflicts of interest associated with the use of predictive data analytics by broker-dealers and investment advisers. Issue: Predictive data analytics. S. __/H.R. __ - Empowering States to Protect Seniors from Bad Actors Act - This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and otherwise revises the Senior Investor Protection Grant Program. The bill moves the program from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the Securities and Exchange Commission, establishes a task force to oversee the program, and eliminates certain grant eligibility requirements. Issue: Financial protections. Issue: FHLBank System Issue: Basel III Issue: Regulation Best Interest Issue: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG). No bill number assigned. Issue: Commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) debt. No bill number assigned. Issue: Unclaimed life insurance products. No bill number assigned. Issue: Covered agreement on prudential measures with respect to the business of insurance and reinsurance. No bill number assigned. Issue: Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) reform. No bill number assigned.
Insurance: Public Law 111-203, H.R. 4173- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Issue: Implementation and Regulatory reform. Captive Reinsurance Transactions, Insurance Capital Standards and Global Capital Standards. Implementation of S. 2270 - Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014. The bill would give the Federal Reserve the authority to tailor capital standards for insurance companies subject to Fed supervision. Issue: Capital Standards, Basel III Implementation of H.R. 748 - the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Issue: CECL, TDR, Remote Online Notarization, SBA loans. H.R. 4583 and H.R. 4582/S.1552 - Living Donor Protection Act. The bill would promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors. Issue: underwriting. H.R. 643 - Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act. To eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury. Issue: FIO Reform. S. 1544/H.R. 3437 - Insurance Data Protection Act. To prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data directly from an insurance company. Issue: FIO Reform H.R. 4735 and S. 2419 - Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act- To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to clarify the authority of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with respect to persons regulated by a State insurance regulator. Issue: Business of Insurance. H.R. 3503 - Kidney Donation Anti-Discrimination Act. The bill would prohibit life insurance providers from discriminating based on a persons status as a living kidney donor. Issue: underwriting. H.R. 3383 - Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation (INVEST) Act of 2025. This bill allows a closed-end fund-a portfolio of pooled assets with a limited number of shares traded on an exchange-to increase its investment in private investment funds. Specifically, the Securities and Exchange Commission is prohibited from limiting the sale or listing of securities of a closed-end fund that invests in private investment funds. This bill also apples to a closed-end company treated as a business development company. Issue: Capital formation H.R. 7130 - McCarran-Ferguson Restoration Act. The bill would eliminate the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and establish a United States Insurance Representative within the Department of the Treasury. Issue: FIO Reform. Issus: FSOC nonbank guidance rule. Issue: private equitys growing role in the insurance industry. Issue: S&P proposal on the methodology that is used to rate insurance companies. Issue: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) board. No bill number assigned. Issue: Housing Finance Reform. No bill number assigned.
Retirement: Retirement Security, Q4 2025 1.H.R.1013, S.424 Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 2025: Allows 403(b) retirement plans to invest in Collective Investment Trust or Separate Accounts Insurance Products to establish investment parity with other defined contribution plans, like 401(k)s. 2.H.R.2023, S.988 Womens Retirement Protection Act (WRPA): This legislation imposes spousal consent requirements on nearly all distributions from defined contribution plans. The bill also seeks to enhance financial literacy through grants to community-based organizations and offers grants to such organizations to help low-income women and survivors of domestic abuse obtain qualified domestic relations orders. 3.H.R.2067, S.928 Protecting Americans Retirement Savings Act (PARSA): This bill prohibits ERISA-covered retirement plans from making new investments in companies controlled by or based in countries considered to be foreign adversaries. Foreign adversaries include China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. The bill also requires fiduciaries to disclose continuing investments in such entities and sanctioned firms. 4.H.R.2089 Generating Retirement Ownership through Long-Term Holding (GROWTH): The legislation provides that reinvested mutual fund dividends are not subject to capital gains taxation until the investor sells his or her shares. 5.H.R.2163 No Penalties for Victims of Fraud Act: The bill ensures that victims of retirement account fraud are not subject to the 10% additional income tax on early retirement plan distributions. 6.H.R.2544, S.1222 Financial Freedom Act of 2025: The legislation prohibits the Secretary of Labor from restricting the investments available in self-directed 401(k) brokerage windows. The bill also prohibits the DOL from preventing a fiduciary from selecting, any particular type of investment alternative, provided that a fiduciary provides the participant or beneficiary an opportunity to choose, from a broad range of investment alternatives, nor can the DOL require that any particular type of investment be either favored or disfavored, other than on the basis of the investments risk-return characteristics. 7.H.R.2696, S.1526 Retirement Savings for Americans Act (RSAA): This legislation establishes a federally run American Worker Retirement Plan for private-sector workers that do not have access to a workplace-based retirement plan. The bill also includes an enhanced federal matching contribution that only applies to lower income workers that participate in the federal plan. 8.H.R.2748 First Time Homeowner Savings Plan Act: This legislation increases the amount first-time homebuyers could pull from their retirement savings from the $10,000 set in the 1990s to $25,000 (indexed to inflation) without the 10% additional income tax on early retirement plan distributions to use as a down payment on their home. 9.H.R.2869 EBSA Investigations Transparency Act: This legislation requires the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) to submit annual reports to Congress on the status of its open employee plan audits and to explain why any audits open for more than 36 months have not been closed. 10.H.R.2958 Balance the Scales Act: This legislation requires the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) to report annually to Congress about its use of common interest agreements. 11.H.R.2988 Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act: This legislation amends ERISA to specify that a retirement plan fiduciary shall be considered acting solely in the interest of participants only if: 1) the investment does not subordinate the interest of participants in their retirement income or financial benefits under the plan to other objectives, including ESG objectives and 2) the fiduciary does not sacrifice investment returns or take on additional investment risks to promote goals unrelated to the plan. 12.H.R.3526, S.2867 Uplifting First-Time Homebuyers Act of 2025: This legislation allows individuals to take an early distribution out of an IRA of up to $50,000 for a qualified first-time home purchase without the 10% additional income tax penalty. Current rules only allow up to a $10,000 early distribution without penalty. 13.H.R.4718, S.1707 Helping Young Americans Save for Retirement Act: This legislation lowers the required minimum participation age in ERISA-covered retirement plans from age 21 to age 18. 14.S.2003 Strengthening Benefits Plans Act of 2025: This legislation permits surplus assets in a retiree health account to be used for other benefits, like active employee health benefits. The legislation also permits surplus assets in a defined benefit plan to be used to provide contributions to the employers defined contribution plan without terminating the defined benefit plan. 15.S.2210 Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers Act: This legislation establishes a safe harbor under federal law for companies that would like to voluntarily provide independent workers with any benefit or protection commonly provided to full-time employees, such as retirement and health care benefits. 16.S.2217 Independent Retirement Fairness Act: This legislation relaxes the audit rules for pooled employer plans (PEPs) and allows companies to enroll their independent workers in PEPs and simplified employer pensions (SEPs) IRAs without triggering employee classification. 17.H.R.4548, S.2365 Small Nonprofit Retirement Security Act of 2025: This legislation makes the credit for small employer pension plan startup costs and the retirement auto-enrollment credit available to tax-exempt eligible small employers. 18.H.R.5325 Unclaimed Retirement Rescue Plan: This legislation directs the Department of Labor (DOL) to issue a regulation that would permit retirement plan fiduciaries to transfer unclaimed retirement distributions to State unclaimed property programs. 19.H.R.5748 Retirement Investment Choice Act: This legislation codifies Executive Order 14330 relating to democratizing access to alternative assets for 401(k) investors. 20.S.3083 Providing Complete Information to Retirement Investors Act: This legislation adds a new notice requirement to participants investing through brokerage windows in 401(k) plans to explain that the investments in a brokerage window have not been prudently selected and are not monitored by a plan fiduciary. 21.S.3086 Restoring Integrity in Fiduciary Duty Act: This legislation limits fiduciary consideration of nonpecuniary factors for investments. The bill further states that ERISA fiduciaries must also make decisions regarding the exercise of shareholder rights and proxy voting based on pecuniary factors. 22.H.R.5887 Saving for the Future Act: This legislation establishes a hybrid emergency savings and 401(k)-type government-run program called the Federal Universal Personal Savings Investment Program and creates UP Retirement Accounts for every full-time and part-time worker not covered by an active defined benefit pension plan. The legislation also requires employers to make a minimum employer contribution to the workers retirement account. 23.H.R.6084 ERISA Litigation Reform Act: This legislation amends the pleading standard under ERISA Section 502 for certain claims to put the burden on the plaintiff to plausibly allege and prove that an ERISA prohibitive transaction occurred that is not exempt under ERISA section 408(b)(2). 24.H.R.6324 Retirement Simplification and Clarity Act: This legislation would: (1) permit an in-service plan distribution to an individual retirement annuity on or after attainment of age 50; and (2) include a specific reference to an individual retirement annuity as a rollover option under a simplified 402(f) safe harbor notice. 25.H.R.6417, S.3333 Emergency Savings Enhancement Act of 2025: This legislation would double the maximum balance limit for Pension-Linked Emergency Savings Accounts (PLESAs) from $2,500 to $5,000 and allows Highly Compensated Employees (HCEs) to participate. 26.H.R.6450, S.3352 Retirement Rollover Flexibility Act: This legislation would permit rollover contributions from Roth IRAs to designated Roth accounts in qualified retirement plans, like 401(k)s. 27.H.R.6722 Automatic IRA Act of 2025: The legislation would require employers with more than 10 employees that do not sponsor a retirement plan to automatically enroll their employees in IRAs (automatic IRAs) or other automatic contribution plans or arrangements, like 401(k) plans. The legislation also requires 401(k) plans with over 100 participants plans must permit participants to elect to receive at least 50 percent of their vested account balance in the form of lifetime income. This requirement does not apply to participants with balances below $200,000. 28.H.R.6729, S.1831 Auto Reenroll Act of 2025: This legislation amends the qualified automatic contribution arrangement (QACA) safe harbor in the tax code for 401(k) plans to allow for automatic periodic reenrollment into the plan. 29.H.R.7185 Home Savings Act: This legislation permits penalty-free withdrawals from a 401(k) account for up to five years when the funds are used for a down payment or closing costs on a primary residence. The legislation also allows an individual to make a penalty-free 401(k) withdrawal and gift those funds to a relative, exempt from gift tax, provided the relative uses the money for a down payment or closing costs on a primary residence. 30.H.R.7362 Form 5500 Filing Simplification Act: This legislation extends the Form 5500 filing deadline to October 15 (for calendar year retirement plans), thus eliminating the need for an extension. 31.H.R.7556, S.2335 Pensions for All Act: This legislation requires every employer to provide to their employees a retirement program with benefits equivalent to the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) or to elect for their employees to participate in FERS. 32.H.R.8273, S.4291 Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2026: This legislation allows full-time family caregivers to qualify for up to five additional years of retirement plan catch-up contributions. Catch-up contributions currently allow individuals over age 50 to contribute above the standard annual retirement plan contribution limit, with even higher limits available for those ages 60 to 63. 33.H.R.8274, S.4292 Improving Retirement for Family Caregivers Act of 2026: Current law limits Roth IRA contributions to the lesser of $7,000 or total annual income. This legislation eliminates the annual income requirement for family caregivers, thus allowing them to contribute to a Roth IRA even if they do not have any income. 34.H.R.8313 Trump Accounts for All Generations Act: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) enacted last year created the Trump Account, which is a new individual tax-preferred savings vehicle for children, with a $1,000 government seed contribution for every child born in the United States from 2025 to 2029. This legislation makes the $1,000 government contribution for children permanent and indexes the $1,000 contribution amount to inflation beginning in 2029. 35.H.R.8314 OPTIONS Act: The legislation allows employees to allocate employer contributions among various pre-tax benefits, including retirement accounts, health savings accounts, health reimbursement accounts, and educational assistance programs. 36.S.4360 Investigation Status and Governance for Honest Transparency (INSIGHT) Act: This legislation requires the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) to submit annual reports to Congress on the status of its open employee plan audits and to explain why any audits open for more than 36 months have not been closed. And it also requires the Department of Labor to formalize and disclose situations in which it is providing adverse assistance which means assistance to plaintiffs lawyers suing ERISA benefit plan sponsors and fiduciaries. 37.H.R.8783, S.4511 Charity Parity Act: Current law allows retirement savers to exclude up to $111,000 in annual gross income to make qualified charitable distributions (QCDs), but only if the funds are donated directly from an IRA. This tax break excludes distributions from employer-sponsored retirement plans like 401(k)s and 403(b)s. So, under current law, individuals must first roll assets into an IRA to make a QCD. The Charity Parity Act would permit direct QCDs from employer-sponsored retirement plans. 38.H.R.8837, S.1840 Retirement Investment in Small Employers (RISE) Act: This legislation raises the floor for the existing $250 per-employee tax credit available to small businesses to create retirement plans, ensuring that all small businesses can receive a tax credit of at least $2,500. The House version of the legislation allows the service provider to claim the tax credit as payment for services that would ordinarily be charged to the employer for starting the plan. 39.General Accounts Product Corrections Act: This proposed legislation clarifies fiduciary responsibilities for life insurance companies as it relates to investments in their general accounts. Income Security S. 2415 and H.R. 7107, the Long-Term Care Affordability Act: Would allow for tax free distributions from retirement accounts to fund LTC contracts. H.R. 133, Both provisions are in the larger bill. H.R.1185 - FAMILY Act. Issue: paid family and medical leave proposal would offer paid leave benefits via a payroll tax for birth or adoption of a child or caring for a sick family member. H.R.1940 - New Parents Act of 2019. Issue: paid family and medical leave H.R.2163 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for tax-advantaged distributions from health savings accounts during family or medical leave, and for other purposes. Issue: paid family and medical leave S.463 - FAMILY Act. Issue: paid family and medical leave- paid family and medical leave proposal would offer paid leave benefits via a payroll tax for birth or adoption of a child or caring for a sick family member S.920 - New Parents Act of 2019. Issue: paid family and medical leave Discussion draft - CRADLE Act. Issue: paid family and medical leave - allows for a deferment of retirement benefits for paid leave benefits. Proposed FY 2020 Budget proposal on paid family and medical leave. Issue: paid family and medical leave H.R. 2694 - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Issue: paid family and medical leave. Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, FY2022, S.Con.Res.14. The budget resolution calls for the $3.5 trillion in long-term investments to be fully offset by a combination of new tax revenues, health care savings, and long-term economic growth. In addition, the agreement would prohibit new taxes on families making less than $400,000 per year, and on small businesses and family farms. Issue: Medicare/Dental (Expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, hearing benefits and lowering the eligibility age). H.R. 5376- Build Back Better Act This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, child-care, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. Excepted Benefits on Supplemental Benefits-proposed tri-agency rule through HHS, Treasury and Labor. S.3680 - Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act Diversity and Inclusion H.R. 5084 - Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act. Issue: diversity and inclusion. H.R. 5360 - Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Act. Issue: diversity and inclusion. H.R. 281 - Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act. Issue: diversity and inclusion. H.R. 7946 and S. 4464 - Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act. Issue: diversity and inclusion.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code: S.__ - Protecting Proper Life Insurance from (PPLI) Abuse Act. This bill would restrict the use of private placement life insurance. HR 2547 and S 1335 - Secure Family Futures Act of 2025
Trade (domestic/foreign): U.S.-Chile Income Tax Treaty U.S.-Chile changes to pension system Protecting Americans Retirement Savings Act (PARSA) (H.R. 2607 / S.928). This bill prohibits ERISA-covered retirement plans from making new investments in companies controlled by or based in countries considered to be foreign adversaries. Foreign adversaries include China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. The bill also requires fiduciaries to disclose continuing investments in such entities and sanctioned firms. Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act (S. 2976/ H.R. 7559). To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on payments by United States taxpayers to foreign persons for services provided to United States consumers. Issue: International H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act (S. 2928). To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform and reduce fraud and abuse in certain visa programs for aliens working temporarily in the United States. Issue: Visas Issue: Tariffs Issue: Data Localization & Cross-Border Data Flow. USTR reversal of its long-standing support for WTO core disciplines that protect U.S. businesses cross-border data flows and prohibit data localization mandates. Issue: Digital Services Tax (DST). Issue: OECD Pillar II UTPR. Issue: Mexico Value Added Tax (VAT) Issue: U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement Review
