HR 3567
107th Congress
House
Health
Auditing
Authorization
Coal
Collective bargaining agreements
Commerce
Congress
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Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Energy
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Law
Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Stability and Fairness Act
Introduced: December 20, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 20, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Dec 20, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Stability and Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize appropriations to the Combined Fund and the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan to: (1) pay any benefit or administrative costs of unassigned beneficiaries of the Combined Fund; (2) pay any benefit or administrative costs of unassigned beneficiaries of the 1992 UMWA Plan; and (3) eliminate any annual deficit in any premium account of the Combined Fund as certified by the Trustees of the Combined Fund.
Makes other related revisions, including: (1) providing for refunds to certain operators; (2) reductions in annual health benefit premiums to the Fund in the event of a surplus.
Redefines a coal wage agreement as: (1) the 1988 agreement, meaning the collective bargaining agreement between the settlors which became effective on February 1, 1988; and (2) the coal wage agreement, meaning the 1988 agreement and any predecessor to the 1988 agreement.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Committees of jurisdiction
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