TAXPAYER RELIEF ACT OF 1997
TITLE I--CHILD TAX CREDIT
Sec. 101. Child tax credit.
TITLE II--EDUCATION INCENTIVES
Subtitle A--Tax Benefits Relating to Education Expenses
Sec. 201. Hope and lifetime learning credits.
Sec. 202. Deduction for interest on education loans.
Sec. 203. Penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for
higher education expenses.
Subtitle B--Expanded Education Investment Savings Opportunities
Part I--Qualified Tuition Programs
Sec. 211. Modifications of qualified State tuition programs.
Part II--Education Individual Retirement Accounts
Sec. 213. Education individual retirement accounts.
Subtitle C--Other Education Initiatives
Sec. 221. Extension of exclusion for employer-provided educational
assistance.
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Sec. 222. Repeal of limitation on qualified 501(c)(3) bonds other than
hospital bonds.
Sec. 223. Increase in arbitrage rebate exception for governmental bonds
used to finance education facilities.
Sec. 224. Contributions of computer technology and equipment for
elementary or secondary school purposes.
Sec. 225. Treatment of cancellation of certain student loans.
Sec. 226. Incentives for education zones.
TITLE III--SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT INCENTIVES
Subtitle A--Retirement Savings
Sec. 301. Restoration of IRA deduction for certain taxpayers.
Sec. 302. Establishment of nondeductible tax-free individual retirement
accounts.
Sec. 303. Distributions from certain plans may be used without penalty
to purchase first homes.
Sec. 304. Certain bullion not treated as collectibles.
Subtitle B--Capital Gains
Sec. 311. 20 percent maximum capital gains rate for individuals.
Sec. 312. Exemption from tax for gain on sale of principal residence.
Sec. 313. Rollover of gain from sale of qualified stock.
Sec. 314. Amount of net capital gain taken into account in computing
alternative tax on capital gains for corporations not to
exceed taxable income of the corporation.
TITLE IV--ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX REFORM
Sec. 401. Exemption from alternative minimum tax for small corporations.
Sec. 402. Repeal of separate depreciation lives for minimum tax
purposes.
Sec. 403. Minimum tax not to apply to farmers' installment sales.
TITLE V--ESTATE, GIFT, AND GENERATION-SKIPPING TAX PROVISIONS
Subtitle A--Estate and Gift Tax Provisions
Sec. 501. Cost-of-living adjustments relating to estate and gift tax
provisions.
Sec. 502. Family-owned business exclusion.
Sec. 503. Modifications to rate of interest on portion of estate tax
extended under section 6166.
Sec. 504. Extension of treatment of certain rents under section 2032A to
lineal descendants.
Sec. 505. Clarification of judicial review of eligibility for extension
of time for payment of estate tax.
Sec. 506. Gifts may not be revalued for estate tax purposes after
expiration of statute of limitations.
Sec. 507. Repeal of throwback rules applicable to certain domestic
trusts.
Sec. 508. Treatment of land subject to a qualified conservation
easement.
Subtitle B--Generation-Skipping Tax Provision
Sec. 511. Expansion of exception from generation-skipping transfer tax
for transfers to individuals with deceased parents.
TITLE VI--EXTENSIONS
Sec. 601. Research tax credit.
Sec. 602. Contributions of stock to private foundations.
Sec. 603. Work opportunity tax credit.
Sec. 604. Orphan drug tax credit.
TITLE VII--INCENTIVES FOR REVITALIZATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Sec. 701. Tax incentives for revitalization of the District of Columbia.
TITLE VIII--WELFARE-TO-WORK INCENTIVES
Sec. 801. Incentives for employing long-term family assistance
recipients.
TITLE IX--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Subtitle A--Provisions Relating to Excise Taxes
Sec. 901. General revenue portion of highway motor fuels taxes deposited
into Highway Trust Fund.
Sec. 902. Repeal of tax on diesel fuel used in recreational boats.
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Sec. 903. Continued application of tax on imported recycled Halon-1211.
Sec. 904. Uniform rate of tax on vaccines.
Sec. 905. Operators of multiple gasoline retail outlets treated as
wholesale distributor for refund purposes.
Sec. 906. Exemption of electric and other clean-fuel motor vehicles from
luxury automobile classification.
Sec. 907. Rate of tax on certain special fuels determined on basis of
BTU equivalency with gasoline.
Sec. 908. Modification of tax treatment of hard cider.
Sec. 909. Study of feasibility of moving collection point for distilled
spirits excise tax.
Sec. 910. Clarification of authority to use semi-generic designations on
wine labels.
Subtitle B--Revisions Relating to Disasters
Sec. 911. Authority to postpone certain tax-related deadlines by reason
of presidentially declared disaster.
Sec. 912. Use of certain appraisals to establish amount of disaster
loss.
Sec. 913. Treatment of livestock sold on account of weather-related
conditions.
Sec. 914. Mortgage financing for residences located in disaster areas.
Sec. 915. Abatement of interest on underpayments by taxpayers in
presidentially declared disaster areas.
Subtitle C--Provisions Relating to Employment Taxes
Sec. 921. Clarification of standard to be used in determining employment
tax status of securities brokers.
Sec. 922. Clarification of exemption from self-employment tax for
certain termination payments received by former insurance
salesmen.
Subtitle D--Provisions Relating to Small Businesses
Sec. 931. Waiver of penalty through June 30, 1998, on small businesses
failing to make electronic fund transfers of taxes.
Sec. 932. Clarification of treatment of home office use for
administrative and management activities.
Sec. 933. Averaging of farm income over 3 years.
Sec. 934. Increase in deduction for health insurance costs of self-
employed individuals.
Sec. 935. Moratorium on certain regulations.
Subtitle E--Brownfields
Sec. 941. Expensing of environmental remediation costs.
Subtitle F--Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, Brownfields, and
Community Development Financial Institutions
Chapter 1--Additional Empowerment Zones
Sec. 951. Additional empowerment zones.
Chapter 2--New Empowerment Zones
Sec. 952. Designation of new empowerment zones.
Sec. 953. Volume cap not to apply to enterprise zone facility bonds with
respect to new empowerment zones.
Sec. 954. Modification to eligibility criteria for designation of future
enterprise zones in Alaska or Hawaii.
Chapter 3--Treatment Of Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
Sec. 955. Modifications to enterprise zone facility bond rules for all
empowerment zones and enterprise communities.
Sec. 956. Modifications to enterprise zone business definition for all
empowerment zones and enterprise communities.
Subtitle G--Other Provisions
Sec. 961. Use of estimates of shrinkage for inventory accounting.
Sec. 962. Assignment of workmen's compensation liability eligible for
exclusion relating to personal injury liability assignments.
Sec. 963. Tax-exempt status for certain State worker's compensation act
companies.
Sec. 964. Election for 1987 partnerships to continue exception from
treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations.
Sec. 965. Exclusion from unrelated business taxable income for certain
sponsorship payments.
Sec. 966. Associations of holders of timeshare interests to be taxed
like other homeowners associations.
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Sec. 967. Additional advance refunding of certain Virgin Island bonds.
Sec. 968. Nonrecognition of gain on sale of stock to certain farmers'
cooperatives.
Sec. 969. Increased deductibility of business meal expenses for
individuals subject to Federal hours of service.
Sec. 970. Clarification of de minimis fringe benefit rules to no-charge
employee meals.
Sec. 971. Exemption of the incremental cost of a clean fuel vehicle from
the limits on depreciation for vehicles.
Sec. 972. Temporary suspension of taxable income limit on percentage
depletion for marginal production.
Sec. 973. Increase in standard mileage rate expense deduction for
charitable use of passenger automobile.
Sec. 974. Clarification of treatment of certain receivables purchased by
cooperative hospital service organizations.
Sec. 975. Deduction in computing adjusted gross income for expenses in
connection with service performed by certain officials.
Sec. 976. Combined employment tax reporting demonstration project.
Sec. 977. Elective carryback of existing carryovers of National Railroad
Passenger Corporation.
Subtitle H--Extension of Duty-Free Treatment Under Generalized System of
Preferences
Sec. 981. Generalized System of Preferences.
TITLE X--REVENUES
Subtitle A--Financial Products
Sec. 1001. Constructive sales treatment for appreciated financial
positions.
Sec. 1002. Limitation on exception for investment companies under
section 351.
Sec. 1003. Gains and losses from certain terminations with respect to
property.
Sec. 1004. Determination of original issue discount where pooled debt
obligations subject to acceleration.
Sec. 1005. Denial of interest deductions on certain debt instruments.
Subtitle B--Corporate Organizations and Reorganizations
Sec. 1011. Tax treatment of certain extraordinary dividends.
Sec. 1012. Application of section 355 to distributions in connection
with acquisitions and to intragroup transactions.
Sec. 1013. Tax treatment of redemptions involving related corporations.
Sec. 1014. Certain preferred stock treated as boot.
Sec. 1015. Modification of holding period applicable to dividends
received deduction.
Subtitle C--Administrative Provisions
Sec. 1021. Reporting of certain payments made to attorneys.
Sec. 1022. Decrease of threshold for reporting payments to corporations
performing services for Federal agencies.
Sec. 1023. Disclosure of return information for administration of
certain veterans programs.
Sec. 1024. Continuous levy on certain payments.
Sec. 1025. Modification of levy exemption.
Sec. 1026. Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return
information.
Sec. 1027. Returns of beneficiaries of estates and trusts required to
file returns consistent with estate or trust return or to
notify Secretary of inconsistency.
Sec. 1028. Registration and other provisions relating to confidential
corporate tax shelters.
Subtitle D--Excise and Employment Tax Provisions
Sec. 1031. Extension and modification of taxes funding Airport and
Airway Trust Fund; increased deposits into such Fund.
Sec. 1032. Kerosene taxed as diesel fuel.
Sec. 1033. Restoration of Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund
taxes.
Sec. 1034. Application of communications tax to prepaid telephone cards.
Sec. 1035. Extension of temporary unemployment tax.
Subtitle E--Provisions Relating to Tax-Exempt Entities
Sec. 1041. Expansion of look-thru rule for interest, annuities,
royalties, and rents derived by subsidiaries of tax-exempt
organizations.
Sec. 1042. Termination of certain exceptions from rules relating to
exempt organizations which provide commercial-type insurance.
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Subtitle F--Foreign Provisions
Sec. 1051. Definition of foreign personal holding company income.
Sec. 1052. Personal property used predominantly in the United States
treated as not property of a like kind with respect to
property used predominantly outside the United States.
Sec. 1053. Holding period requirement for certain foreign taxes.
Sec. 1054. Denial of treaty benefits for certain payments through hybrid
entities.
Sec. 1055. Interest on underpayments not reduced by foreign tax credit
carrybacks.
Sec. 1056. Clarification of period of limitations on claim for credit or
refund attributable to foreign tax credit carryforward.
Sec. 1057. Repeal of exception to alternative minimum foreign tax credit
limit.
Subtitle G--Partnership Provisions
Sec. 1061. Allocation of basis among properties distributed by
partnership.
Sec. 1062. Repeal of requirement that inventory be substantially
appreciated with respect to sale or exchange of partnership
interest.
Sec. 1063. Extension of time for taxing precontribution gain.
Subtitle H--Pension Provisions
Sec. 1071. Pension accrued benefit distributable without consent
increased to $5,000.
Sec. 1072. Election to receive taxable cash compensation in lieu of
nontaxable parking benefits.
Sec. 1073. Repeal of excess distribution and excess retirement
accumulation tax.
Sec. 1074. Increase in tax on prohibited transactions.
Sec. 1075. Basis recovery rules for annuities over more than one life.
Subtitle I--Other Revenue Provisions
Sec. 1081. Termination of suspense accounts for family corporations
required to use accrual method of accounting.
Sec. 1082. Modification of taxable years to which net operating losses
may be carried.
Sec. 1083. Modifications to taxable years to which unused credits may be
carried.
Sec. 1084. Expansion of denial of deduction for certain amounts paid in
connection with insurance.
Sec. 1085. Improved enforcement of the application of the earned income
credit.
Sec. 1086. Limitation on property for which income forecast method may
be used.
Sec. 1087. Expansion of requirement that involuntarily converted
property be replaced with property acquired from an unrelated
person.
Sec. 1088. Treatment of exception from installment sales rules for sales
of property by a manufacturer to a dealer.
Sec. 1089. Limitations on charitable remainder trust eligibility for
certain trusts.
Sec. 1090. Expanded SSA records for tax enforcement.
Sec. 1091. Modification of estimated tax safe harbors.
TITLE XI--SIMPLIFICATION AND OTHER FOREIGN-RELATED PROVISIONS
Subtitle A--General Provisions
Sec. 1101. Certain individuals exempt from foreign tax credit
limitation.
Sec. 1102. Exchange rate used in translating foreign taxes.
Sec. 1103. Election to use simplified section 904 limitation for
alternative minimum tax.
Sec. 1104. Treatment of personal transactions by individuals under
foreign currency rules.
Sec. 1105. Foreign tax credit treatment of dividends from noncontrolled
section 902 corporations.
Subtitle B--Treatment of Controlled Foreign Corporations
Sec. 1111. Gain on certain stock sales by controlled foreign
corporations treated as dividends.
Sec. 1112. Miscellaneous modifications to subpart F.
Sec. 1113. Indirect foreign tax credit allowed for certain lower tier
companies.
Subtitle C--Treatment of Passive Foreign Investment Companies
Sec. 1121. United States shareholders of controlled foreign corporations
not subject to PFIC inclusion.
Sec. 1122. Election of mark to market for marketable stock in passive
foreign investment company.
Sec. 1123. Valuation of assets for passive foreign investment company
determination.
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Sec. 1124. Effective date.
Subtitle D--Repeal of Excise Tax on Transfers to Foreign Entities
Sec. 1131. Repeal of excise tax on transfers to foreign entities;
recognition of gain on certain transfers to foreign trusts
and estates.
Subtitle E--Information Reporting
Sec. 1141. Clarification of application of return requirement to foreign
partnerships.
Sec. 1142. Controlled foreign partnerships subject to information
reporting comparable to information reporting for controlled
foreign corporations.
Sec. 1143. Modifications relating to returns required to be filed by
reason of changes in ownership interests in foreign
partnership.
Sec. 1144. Transfers of property to foreign partnerships subject to
information reporting comparable to information reporting for
such transfers to foreign corporations.
Sec. 1145. Extension of statute of limitations for foreign transfers.
Sec. 1146. Increase in filing thresholds for returns as to organization
of foreign corporations and acquisitions of stock in such
corporations.
Subtitle F--Determination of Foreign or Domestic Status of Partnerships
Sec. 1151. Determination of foreign or domestic status of partnerships.
Subtitle G--Other Simplification Provisions
Sec. 1161. Transition rule for certain trusts.
Sec. 1162. Repeal of stock and securities safe harbor requirement that
principal office be outside the United States.
Sec. 1163. Miscellaneous clarifications.
Subtitle H--Other Provisions
Sec. 1171. Treatment of computer software as FSC export property.
Sec. 1172. Adjustment of dollar limitation on section 911 exclusion.
Sec. 1173. United States property not to include certain assets acquired
by dealers in ordinary course of trade or business.
Sec. 1174. Treatment of nonresident aliens engaged in international
transportation services.
Sec. 1175. Exemption for active financing income.
TITLE XII--SIMPLIFICATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO INDIVIDUALS AND
BUSINESSES
Subtitle A--Provisions Relating to Individuals
Sec. 1201. Basic standard deduction and minimum tax exemption amount for
certain dependents.
Sec. 1202. Increase in amount of tax exempt from estimated tax
requirements.
Sec. 1203. Treatment of certain reimbursed expenses of rural mail
carriers.
Sec. 1204. Treatment of traveling expenses of certain Federal employees
engaged in criminal investigations.
Sec. 1205. Payment of tax by commercially acceptable means.
Subtitle B--Provisions Relating to Businesses Generally
Sec. 1211. Modifications to look-back method for long-term contracts.
Sec. 1212. Minimum tax treatment of certain property and casualty
insurance companies.
Sec. 1213. Qualified lessee construction allowances for short-term
leases.
Subtitle C--Simplification Relating to Electing Large Partnerships
Part I--General Provisions
Sec. 1221. Simplified flow-through for electing large partnerships.
Sec. 1222. Simplified audit procedures for electing large partnerships.
Sec. 1223. Due date for furnishing information to partners of electing
large partnerships.
Sec. 1224. Returns required on magnetic media.
Sec. 1225. Treatment of partnership items of individual retirement
accounts.
Sec. 1226. Effective date.
Part II--Provisions Related to TEFRA Partnership Proceedings
Sec. 1231. Treatment of partnership items in deficiency proceedings.
Sec. 1232. Partnership return to be determinative of audit procedures to
be followed.
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Sec. 1233. Provisions relating to statute of limitations.
Sec. 1234. Expansion of small partnership exception.
Sec. 1235. Exclusion of partial settlements from 1-year limitation on
assessment.
Sec. 1236. Extension of time for filing a request for administrative
adjustment.
Sec. 1237. Availability of innocent spouse relief in context of
partnership proceedings.
Sec. 1238. Determination of penalties at partnership level.
Sec. 1239. Provisions relating to court jurisdiction, etc.
Sec. 1240. Treatment of premature petitions filed by notice partners or
5-percent groups.
Sec. 1241. Bonds in case of appeals from certain proceeding.
Sec. 1242. Suspension of interest where delay in computational
adjustment resulting from certain settlements.
Sec. 1243. Special rules for administrative adjustment requests with
respect to bad debts or worthless securities.
Part III--Provision Relating to Closing of Partnership Taxable Year With
Respect to Deceased Partner, Etc.
Sec. 1246. Closing of partnership taxable year with respect to deceased
partner, etc.
Subtitle D--Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investment Trusts
Sec. 1251. Clarification of limitation on maximum number of
shareholders.
Sec. 1252. De minimis rule for tenant services income.
Sec. 1253. Attribution rules applicable to stock ownership.
Sec. 1254. Credit for tax paid by REIT on retained capital gains.
Sec. 1255. Repeal of 30-percent gross income requirement.
Sec. 1256. Modification of earnings and profits rules for determining
whether REIT has earnings and profits from non-REIT year.
Sec. 1257. Treatment of foreclosure property.
Sec. 1258. Payments under hedging instruments.
Sec. 1259. Excess noncash income.
Sec. 1260. Prohibited transaction safe harbor.
Sec. 1261. Shared appreciation mortgages.
Sec. 1262. Wholly owned subsidiaries.
Sec. 1263. Effective date.
Subtitle E--Provisions Relating to Regulated Investment Companies
Sec. 1271. Repeal of 30-percent gross income limitation.
Subtitle F--Taxpayer Protections
Sec. 1281. Reasonable cause exception for certain penalties.
Sec. 1282. Clarification of period for filing claims for refunds.
Sec. 1283. Repeal of authority to disclose whether prospective juror has
been audited.
Sec. 1284. Clarification of statute of limitations.
Sec. 1285. Awarding of administrative costs.
TITLE XIII--SIMPLIFICATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO ESTATE AND GIFT TAXES
Sec. 1301. Gifts to charities exempt from gift tax filing requirements.
Sec. 1302. Clarification of waiver of certain rights of recovery.
Sec. 1303. Transitional rule under section 2056A.
Sec. 1304. Treatment for estate tax purposes of short-term obligations
held by nonresident aliens.
Sec. 1305. Certain revocable trusts treated as part of estate.
Sec. 1306. Distributions during first 65 days of taxable year of estate.
Sec. 1307. Separate share rules available to estates.
Sec. 1308. Executor of estate and beneficiaries treated as related
persons for disallowance of losses, etc.
Sec. 1309. Treatment of funeral trusts.
Sec. 1310. Adjustments for gifts within 3 years of decedent's death.
Sec. 1311. Clarification of treatment of survivor annuities under
qualified terminable interest rules.
Sec. 1312. Treatment under qualified domestic trust rules of forms of
ownership which are not trusts.
Sec. 1313. Opportunity to correct certain failures under section 2032A.
Sec. 1314. Authority to waive requirement of United States trustee for
qualified domestic trusts.
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TITLE XIV--SIMPLIFICATION PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXCISE TAXES, TAX-
EXEMPT BONDS, AND OTHER MATTERS
Subtitle A--Excise Tax Simplification
Part I--Excise Taxes on Heavy Trucks and Luxury Cars
Sec. 1401. Increase in de minimis limit for after-market alterations for
heavy trucks and luxury cars.
Sec. 1402. Credit for tire tax in lieu of exclusion of value of tires in
computing price.
Part II--Provisions Related to Distilled Spirits, Wines, and Beer
Sec. 1411. Credit or refund for imported bottled distilled spirits
returned to distilled spirits plant.
Sec. 1412. Authority to cancel or credit export bonds without submission
of records.
Sec. 1413. Repeal of required maintenance of records on premises of
distilled spirits plant.
Sec. 1414. Fermented material from any brewery may be received at a
distilled spirits plant.
Sec. 1415. Repeal of requirement for wholesale dealers in liquors to
post sign.
Sec. 1416. Refund of tax to wine returned to bond not limited to
unmerchantable wine.
Sec. 1417. Use of additional ameliorating material in certain wines.
Sec. 1418. Domestically produced beer may be withdrawn free of tax for
use of foreign embassies, legations, etc.
Sec. 1419. Beer may be withdrawn free of tax for destruction.
Sec. 1420. Authority to allow drawback on exported beer without
submission of records.
Sec. 1421. Transfer to brewery of beer imported in bulk without payment
of tax.
Sec. 1422. Transfer to bonded wine cellars of wine imported in bulk
without payment of tax.
Part III--Other Excise Tax Provisions
Sec. 1431. Authority to grant exemptions from registration requirements.
Sec. 1432. Repeal of expired provisions.
Sec. 1433. Simplification of imposition of excise tax on arrows.
Sec. 1434. Modifications to retail tax on heavy trucks.
Sec. 1435. Skydiving flights exempt from tax on transportation of
persons by air.
Sec. 1436. Allowance or credit of refund for tax-paid aviation fuel
purchased by registered producer of aviation fuel.
Subtitle B--Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions
Sec. 1441. Repeal of $100,000 limitation on unspent proceeds under 1-
year exception from rebate.
Sec. 1442. Exception from rebate for earnings on bona fide debt service
fund under construction bond rules.
Sec. 1443. Repeal of debt service-based limitation on investment in
certain nonpurpose investments.
Sec. 1444. Repeal of expired provisions.
Sec. 1445. Effective date.
Subtitle C--Tax Court Procedures
Sec. 1451. Overpayment determinations of Tax Court.
Sec. 1452. Redetermination of interest pursuant to motion.
Sec. 1453. Application of net worth requirement for awards of litigation
costs.
Sec. 1454. Proceedings for determination of employment status.
Subtitle D--Other Provisions
Sec. 1461. Extension of due date of first quarter estimated tax payment
by private foundations.
Sec. 1462. Clarification of authority to withhold Puerto Rico income
taxes from salaries of Federal employees.
Sec. 1463. Certain notices disregarded under provision increasing
interest rate on large corporate underpayments.
TITLE XV--PENSIONS AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Subtitle A--Simplification
Sec. 1501. Matching contributions of self-employed individuals not
treated as elective employer contributions.
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Sec. 1502. Modification of prohibition of assignment or alienation.
Sec. 1503. Elimination of paperwork burdens on plans.
Sec. 1504. Modification of 403(b) exclusion allowance to conform to 415
modifications.
Sec. 1505. Extension of moratorium on application of certain
nondiscrimination rules to State and local governments.
Sec. 1506. Clarification of certain rules relating to employee stock
ownership plans of S corporations.
Sec. 1507. Modification of 10-percent tax for nondeductible
contributions.
Sec. 1508. Modification of funding requirements for certain plans.
Sec. 1509. Clarification of disqualification rules relating to
acceptance of rollover contributions.
Sec. 1510. New technologies in retirement plans.
Subtitle B--Other Provisions Relating to Pensions and Employee Benefits
Sec. 1521. Increase in current liability funding limit.
Sec. 1522. Special rules for church plans.
Sec. 1523. Repeal of application of unrelated business income tax to
ESOPs.
Sec. 1524. Diversification of section 401(k) plan investments.
Sec. 1525. Section 401(k) plans for certain irrigation and drainage
entities.
Sec. 1526. Portability of permissive service credit under governmental
pension plans.
Sec. 1527. Removal of dollar limitation on benefit payments from a
defined benefit plan maintained for certain police and fire
employees.
Sec. 1528. Survivor benefits for public safety officers killed in the
line of duty.
Sec. 1529. Treatment of certain disability benefits received by former
police officers or firefighters.
Sec. 1530. Gratuitous transfers for the benefit of employees.
Subtitle C--Provisions Relating to Certain Health Acts
Sec. 1531. Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to implement
the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 and
the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996.
Sec. 1532. Special rules relating to church plans.
Subtitle D--Provisions Relating to Plan Amendments
Sec. 1541. Provisions relating to plan amendments.
TITLE XVI--TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATED TO SMALL BUSINESS JOB PROTECTION
ACT OF 1996 AND OTHER LEGISLATION
Sec. 1600. Coordination with other titles.
Sec. 1601. Amendments related to Small Business Job Protection Act of
1996.
Sec. 1602. Amendments related to Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996.
Sec. 1603. Amendments related to Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2.
Sec. 1604. Miscellaneous provisions.
TITLE XVII--IDENTIFICATION OF LIMITED TAX BENEFITS SUBJECT TO LINE ITEM
VETO
Sec. 1701. Identification of limited tax benefits subject to line item
veto.
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