Senate bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the definition of substantial cessation of operations.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 19, 2014
- Committee actionJul 23, 2014
- Passed SenateSep 16, 2014 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2014 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2511.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2511, a bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the definition of substantial cessation of operations” on September 10, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on July 23, 2014”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 10, 2014 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45701
- CBO publication date
- September 10, 2014
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2511, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/s/2511
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.