HR 536
110th Congress
House
Health
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Hearing aids
Labor and Employment
Helping America Hear Act of 2007
Introduced: January 17, 2007
Introduced by:
Lynch, Stephen F.
Democratic
· Massachusetts
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 18, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 19, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
Feb 2, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 17, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, 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.
Jan 17, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Helping America Hear Act of 2007 - Requires each federal employee health benefits plan to provide coverage for at least two hearing aids every three years, except that such plan need not cover more than $2,500 for hearing aids for any individual in any three-year period.
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan that provides hospital and surgical benefits to also provide such hearing aid coverage.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance offered in the individual market to provide such coverage.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.