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2009 Federal E-News

Healthcare Reform: Special Edition 2009

• The House Bill

• The Senate Bill

• Major Differences

• Details of Interest to Employees and Retirees

• Details of Interest to Plan Sponsors

• Issues of Particular Concern for the Public Sector

• The Senate "Cadillac Plans" Excise Tax Proposal

• Outlook for Reform in the Senate

• Final Prognosis

Summer 2009

• Public Sector Offers Strong Response to GASB ITC on Possible Financial Accounting Rules Changes

• SEC Proposes New "Play to Pay" Rules; Would Ban Third Party Placement Agents

• NCTR, NASRA Clarify Position on Normal Retirement Age Regulations with Treasury/IRS

• House Passes "Say on Pay" Legislation while SEC Moves to Beef Up Proxy Disclosures Related to Executive Compensation

• Public Pensions are Increasingly the Focus of SEC Activitiy

• FBAR Update: Confusion Over Filing Requirement Continues

• Credit Rating Agency Reforms Proposed by Obama Administration

• Institutional Investors Once Again Under the Microscope for Being Oil "Speculators" - and Possibly Under the Gun, as Congress and the Administration Consider New Restrictions on Commodities Trading

• Snapshots

March/April/May 2009

• GASB Issues Invitation to Comment on Possible Revisions to Governmental Plan Accounting and Reporting Standards

• Feds Reverse Themselves on Witholding Tables, but Create Event More Problems with Proposed Solution

• Financial Markets Reform: Public Plans Weigh in as Overall Process Continues to Evolve

• Retirement Security Debate Heating Up

• New Public-Private Investment Initiative Announced; Feds Seeking Public Plan Participation

• Healthcare Reform Advances; Mandatory Medicare for Public Employees Rears Its Head, as Does Taxation of Employer-Provided Healthcare

• SEC Proposes New Proxy Access Rule

• Snapshots

January/February 2009

• New Stimulus Bill Becomes Law

• IRS Begins Compliance Survey of Public Plans

• New NCTQ Yearbook Finds Teacher Pensions Inflexible, Unfair and Expensive

• HELPS II Legislation Expected; Would Provide All Public Sector Retirees with $3000 Healthcare Tax Deduction

• Vanderbuilt Conference Examines "Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit System

• Ackerman Bill to Guarantee Governmental Plan Investments in TARP Banks Introduced in House

• Snapshots