US Congress House Bill 3822 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Introduced on October 15 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-11-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Permits an employer that does not offer health benefits coverage to its employees as of this Act's enactment to provide tax-free defined contributions and administrative assistance to such employees who choose to purchase health insurance coverage in the individual market. Bars any state from prohibiting: (1) an employer from taking any such actions; or (2) the sale of health insurance coverage to employees where an employer's involvement is limited to withholding premiums from employee paychecks and sending the premium payments to the health insurance issuer on the employees' behalf. Makes federal rules relating to list billing (the sale of individual health plans to an employer's employees) inapplicable to actions described in this Act.

To permit employers to provide contributions and assistance to certain employees who purchase individual health insurance.

Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Rep. Mary Bono Mack [R-CA]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]
Rep. Steve Buyer [R-IN]	Rep. Nathan Deal [R-GA]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]	Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R-TX]
Rep. Joseph Pitts [R-PA]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-11-16		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2009-10-16		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2009-10-15		Referred to House Ways and Means
2009-10-15		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2009-10-15		Referred to House Education and Labor
2009-10-15		Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3822/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr3822/BILLS-111hr3822ih.pdf