Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report

LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code RET

16. Specific lobbying issues

Legislative

FY 2023 Budget Proposal - tax policy, pandemic preparedness
Build Back Better Act (BBBA) - H.R. 5376 - retirement policy and revenue-raising provisions
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) - H.R. 3684 -defined benefit pension stabilization option provision
Automatic Retirement Plan Act (ARPA)
Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 - S. 1870
ABLE Employment Flexibility ACT (AEFA) - H.R. 4672
Womens Retirement Protection Act (WRPA) - S. 2446/H.R. 4678
Encouraging Americans to Save Act (EASA_ - S. 2452/H.R. 2913
Improving Access to Retirement Savings Act - S. 1703
Retirement Savings Lost and Found Act - S. 1730
Retirement Parity for Student Loans Act - S. 1443/H.R. 2917
Financial Factors in Selecting Retirement Plan Investment Act - S. 1762
Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 - S. 1770
Enhancing Emergency and Retirement Savings Act of 2021 - S. 1870
Securing a Strong Retirement Act - H.R. 2954
Retirement Security Flexibility Act - S. 2602
Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act - H.R. 409
Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act - H.R. 423
Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement (RISE) Act - H.R. 5891
Lifetime Income for Employees (LIFE) Act - H.R. 6476
Auto Reenroll Act of 2022 - H.R. 6782
Bipartisan retirement policy legislation
Cybersecurity
Defined Benefit Plan (DB) Issues
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principals in investing
ERISA Uniformity
Financial wellness
Mortality Tables - improvements
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums
Pooled Employer Plan (PEPs) Issues
Tax Incentives for 401 (k) contributions
Telework practices
Electronic communication

Regulatory

White House Executive Order - Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
Department of Labor (DOL) - Guidance on Cryptocurrency in retirement plans
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) - Required Minimum Distributions (RMD) from retirement plans
DOL - sub-regulatory guidance - reduction of cybersecurity risks for retirement plan sponsors
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 - H.R. 133 (Public Law 116-260) - employer-sponsored retirement and other benefit plans - implementation issues
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - H.R. 1319, (Public Law 117-2) - PBGC, IRS - IFR - new assistance program for financially troubled multiemployer plans
DOL/IRS/PBGC - Form 5500 reporting requirements - proposed rules and forms revisions
PBGC/IRS - Missing Participants - request for clarifying guidance on missing participant benefits
DOL - best practices for missing participants
DOL/EBSA- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment and proxy voting guidance, - proposed regulations, temporary non-enforcement policy
DOL (EBSA) - guidance on maximum duration of relief extending certain participant and plan deadlines resulting from COVID-19
Treasury/IRS - safe harbor correction method for automatic contribution arrangements
IRS -Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS)
IRS - mandatory 60-day postponement of certain tax-related deadlines
Treasury/IRS - Notice 2021-48 - guidance on single-employer pension plan relief included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA)
DOL/Treasury/IRS - Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) and Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs) - comments on registration requirements, service crediting guidance and other issues
DOL (EBSA) - investment advice guidance and related prohibited transaction exemptions
Treasury/IRS - Remote notarization for spousal consent
DOL - Interim Final Rule on Lifetime Income Illustration Requirements - temporary frequently asked questions (FAQs) - timing clarification
DOL - defined benefit plans - annuity purchases
DOL - redefinition of fiduciary
DOL -de-risking of defined benefit pension plans
Emergency savings
Executive compensation
ERISA Uniformity
Mortality Tables - improvements
Multiemployer pension plan issues
Paid leave proposals and issues
State retirement plan initiatives
Student loan repayment benefit
PBGC/IRS - withholding issue for terminating plans
IRS Tax Forms W4-P and W4-R - Effective date of the revised 2022 tax forms postponed until 2023

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), White House Office, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code HCR

16. Specific lobbying issues

Legislative

Employer-sponsored health coverage - testing and vaccine distribution, COBRA subsidies, telehealth, primary care and worksite clinics and more comprehensive coverage of chronic disease prevention measures
Further Extending Government Funding - short-term continuing resolution (CR- through February 18, 2022 - HSA Telehealth extension - H.R. 6119
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (CAA 2022) - Telehealth extension
FY 2023 Budget Proposal - mental health, pandemic preparedness
Build Back Better Act (BBBA) - H.R. 5376 - health care coverage and affordability issues, prescription drugs, paid family and medical leave, mental health parity penalties
Healthy Competition for Better Care Act - S. 3139
Treat and Reduce Obesity Act - S. 596/H.R. 1577
Telehealth Expansion Act - S. 1704/H.R. 5981
FAMILY Act - H.R. 804/S.248 - Paid Family Leave
American Families Plan - national comprehensive paid family and medical leave program
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) - H.R. 3684
Affordable Insulin Now Act - S. 3700/H.R. 6833
PREVENT Pandemics Act - S. 3799
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
Quality, Cost & Transparency - Lower Health Care Costs Act (S. 1895, 116th Congress)
Mental Health - Request for Information (RFI) - U.S. Senate Finance Committee
Mental health parity
Prescription drug legislation
Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act - H.R. 3
Surprise billing regulations
Healthy Future Task Force (House Republicans) - comments submitted to Affordability (lower costs) and Modernization (Telehealth expansion) Subcommittees


Regulatory

Departments of Health & Human Services (HHS), Labor and Treasury (the tri-agencies) - group health plan coverage of over the counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests without cost-sharing
Treasury/IRS - proposed permanent ACA health coverage reporting relief
White House Executive Order - Continuing to Strengthen Americans Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage and related regulations on the premium tax credit under the ACA
Treasury/IRS -Pre-Deductible Telehealth Care in High Deductible Health Plans
HHS/Labor & Treasury (the tri-agencies) interim final regulations (IFR) on CAA requirements for group health plans and health insurers to report on prescription drug and health spending
Executive Order - Promoting Competition in the American Economy
HHS - Comprehensive Plan for Addressing High Drug Costs
Labor/HHS/Treasury - proposed regulations regarding air ambulance reporting for group health plans and insurers
Labor, Treasury & HHS (the tri-agencies) - public report issued on mental health parity compliance enforcement
Mental health parity requirements for group health plans and insurers, including under the CAA
Treasury/DOL/HHS - implementation of surprise billing provisions under the CAA - interim final regulations (IFR) part 1 and part 2
DOL - State All Payer Claims Database - Guidance, including Report by Advisory Committee under the CAA
EEOC - vaccine incentive and mandate guidance for employers
DOL/Treasury/HHS - transparency provisions under the CAA
HHS - Enforcement of Hospital Price Transparency Rules
Provider nondiscrimination rules under the CAA and the ACA
Treasury/IRS - request for guidance on repurposing of welfare benefit fund assets
ERISA uniformity
High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs)
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)/Department of Justice (DOJ) - Request for Information (RFI) on Merger Enforcement
State health care requirements affecting self-insured plans

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.

20. Client new address

21. Client new principal place of business (if different than line 20)

22. New General description of client’s business or activities

LOBBYIST UPDATE

23. Name of each previously reported individual who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client

ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)

Internet Address:

26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client

FOREIGN ENTITIES

27. Add the following foreign entities:

28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization

CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE

29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery, extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
No Yes