HR 845 106th Congress House

Beneficiary Health Coverage Notification Rights Act of 1999

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require a health insuranc… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require a health insurance issuer to notify participants and beneficiaries of impending termination of coverage resulting from the failure of a group health plan to pay premiums necessary to maintain coverage, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 25, 1999 See on congress.gov

Health CommerceConsumer educationEmployee health benefitsEmployee rights

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Finance and Financial SectorHealth insurance industryInsurance premiumsLabor and EmploymentPatients' rights

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Became law

Mar 12, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

Mar 11, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

Mar 2, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Feb 24, 1999

Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, 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.

Feb 24, 1999

Introduced in House

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Latest action March 12, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Beneficiary Health Coverage Notification Rights Act of 1999 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a health insurance issuer to notify all participants and beneficiaries of an intention to terminate coverage or allow a policy to lapse because a group health plan failed to pay premiums necessary to maintain coverage.

Amends such Acts and the Internal Revenue Code to deem any participant or beneficiary notified of a group health plan termination or lapse only after the fact to have been covered during the deeming period between the effective date of the termination or lapse and the date of notification. Limits the application of the deeming period to certain purposes, including reduction of pre-existing condition exclusion periods and avoidance of a significant break in coverage. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed as entitling any individual to any plan or coverage benefits during such deeming period.

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Committees of jurisdiction 6

Education and Workforce Committee
House of Representatives
Energy and Commerce Committee
House of Representatives
Health and Environment Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Energy and Commerce Committee
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Education and Workforce Committee
Health Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means Committee
House of Representatives

Cosponsors 11

Lofgren, Zoe

California · Jun 10, 1999

Nadler, Jerrold

New York · May 27, 1999

CHRISTENSEN, DONNA

· May 5, 1999

McGovern, James P.

Massachusetts · Mar 25, 1999

Schakowsky, Janice D.

Illinois · Mar 25, 1999

Sanders, Bernard

Vermont · Mar 18, 1999

New Jersey · Mar 3, 1999

Pelosi, Nancy

California · Mar 3, 1999

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