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To prohibit the Secretary of Labor from constraining the range or type of investments that may be offered to participants and beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts who exercise control over the assets in such accounts.
Summary
This bill would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to modify fiduciary duties with respect to individual retirement accounts where participants control their own investments. It would prohibit the Secretary of Labor from issuing regulations that constrain or prohibit the range or types of investments offered through self-directed brokerage windows in retirement plans. The bill states that fiduciaries would not be required to favor or disfavor particular types of investments, except on the basis of risk-return characteristics, and that offering a self-directed brokerage window would not violate prudence or diversification requirements under ERISA. Fiduciaries would still be required to provide participants with a broad range of investment alternatives from which to choose.
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Top reported contributors to Byron Donalds’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $212,903
- ENTREPRENEUR $17,899
- ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $13,200
- ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC $12,750
- SAULSBURY INDUSTRIES $9,900
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Actions (2)
- Apr 1, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Apr 1, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 1, 2025
Mr. Donalds introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To prohibit the Secretary of Labor from constraining the range or type of investments that may be offered to participants and beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts who exercise control over the assets in such accounts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Financial Freedom Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. FIDUCIARY DUTIES WITH RESPECT TO PENSION PLAN INVESTMENTS.
Section 404(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1104(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(3)(A) In the case of a pension plan that provides for individual accounts and permits a participant or beneficiary to exercise control over the assets in the participant’s or beneficiary’s account, nothing in paragraph (1)—
“(i) requires a fiduciary to select, or prohibits 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, the manner in which some or all of the assets of the participant’s or beneficiary’s account are invested, according to regulations prescribed by the Secretary; or
“(ii) requires that any particular type of investment be either favored or disfavored, other than on the basis of the investment’s risk-return characteristics, in the context of the plan fiduciary’s objective of providing investment alternatives suitable for providing benefits for participants and beneficiaries.
“(B) In the event that a fiduciary selects a self-directed brokerage window as an investment alternative for a plan described in subparagraph (A)—
“(i) the Secretary shall not issue any regulations or subregulatory guidance constraining or prohibiting the range or type of investments that may be offered through such brokerage window;
“(ii) subsection (c) shall apply to such self- directed brokerage window; and
“(iii) the diversification requirement of paragraph (1)(C) and the prudence requirement of paragraph (1)(B) are not violated by the fiduciary’s selection of a self-directed brokerage window as an investment alternative or as a result of the exercise of a participant or beneficiary’s control over the assets in such self-directed brokerage window.”. <all>
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