S 1735
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
Self-Insurance Protection Act
Introduced: November 19, 2013
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 19, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Nov 19, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Self-Insurance Protection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of "health insurance coverage" a stop loss policy obtained by a self-insured health plan or a plan sponsor of a group health plan that self-insures the health risks of its plan participants to reimburse the plan or sponsor for losses incurred in providing health or medical benefits to such plan participants in excess of a predetermined level set forth in the stop loss policy.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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