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Beneficiary Health Coverage Notification Rights Act of 1999

Introduced: February 24, 1999 See on congress.gov
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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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 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.

What's happening now March 12, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 6 Independent 1
D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Jun 10, 1999
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · May 27, 1999
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Mar 25, 1999
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Mar 25, 1999
 I
Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Mar 18, 1999
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Mar 3, 1999
 D
Pelosi, Nancy
California · Mar 3, 1999
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