HR 3319
106th Congress
House
Health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Collective bargaining agreements
Commerce
Consumer education
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drugs
Drugstores
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Health insurance industry
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Prescription Drug Benefit Equity Act of 1999
Introduced: November 10, 1999
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Everywhere this bill has been
6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 8, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Nov 30, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Nov 30, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Nov 17, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 10, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
Nov 10, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Prescription Drug Benefit Equity Act of 1999 - Amends the Public Health Service Act (regarding group health plans, health insurance issuers offering group insurance, and health insurance offered in the individual market), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (regarding group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group insurance), the Internal Revenue Code (regarding group health plans), title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (regarding Medicare+Choice plans, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), competitive medical plans, Medicare supplemental health insurance policies (Medigap), and Medicare select policies), SSA title XIX (Medicaid) (regarding State plans), and provisions of the U.S. Code relating to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (regarding contracting with carriers offering health benefits plans) to require that, if mail-order prescription drug coverage is provided, non-mail-order prescription drug coverage must also be provided.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Committees of jurisdiction
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