AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS - 2025 first_quarter

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 - 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./S. - 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.__/S. __ 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 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.

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.2696 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. 7.General Accounts Product Corrections Act: Would clarify 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.

S.__ - Protecting Proper Life Insurance from (PPLI) Abuse Act. This bill would restrict the use of private placement life insurance. OT bill - Secure Family Futures Act of 2023 Life Insurance Tax Stabilization Proposal (no bill introduced yet) Ordinary Treatment of Bonds (Senate Wyden Modernization of Derivatives Act) Issues related to the tax treatment of life insurance reserves and deferred acquisition costs (DAC) Issues related to the reduction or elimination of state and local tax deductions for businesses.

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. /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. S. __ - 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). 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.

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. S. - Living Donor Protection Act. The bill would promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors. Issue: underwriting. H.R. __ - State Regulation of Insurance Preservation Act. The bill would limit certain authorities and duties of the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury. Issue: Federal Insurance Office. H.R. __ - 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. __ - 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. 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.

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. 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.

2025 first_quarter Filing

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