3.0.0 2203 2020-02-10T16:51:02Z 2020-02-10T16:51:02Z House H HR 2005-05-05 109 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Referred to 2005-05-31T19:12:49Z Referred to 2005-05-05T14:06:10Z hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2005-05-23T15:30:03Z Referred to 2005-05-05T14:06:00Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2005-05-05T14:06:05Z 2005-05-31 hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Committee 2005-05-23 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2005-05-05 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2005-05-05 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2005-05-05 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2005-05-05 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2005-05-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2005-05-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S000275 Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3] JOHN SHADEGG R AZ 3 N S001143 Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3] MARK SOUDER R IN EDWARD 3 2005-05-12 False Health Access to health care Accreditation (Medical care) Administrative fees Administrative procedure Bankruptcy Case management Chambers of commerce Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clergy Coinsurance Collective bargaining Commerce Communication in medicine Computer networks Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Cost of living adjustments Costs Crime and Law Enforcement Delegation of powers Department of Health and Human Services Department of Labor Disabled Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Drugs Economics and Public Finance Education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Employee health benefits Federal advisory bodies Federal preemption Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Financial statements Fines (Penalties) Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Health care fraud Health insurance Health maintenance organizations Higher education Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Injunctions Insurance agents Insurance premiums Internet Labor and Employment Labor contracts Labor unions Law Licenses Managed care Medical economics Medical personnel Medical savings accounts Medically uninsured Patient satisfaction Preferred provider organizations (Medical care) Preventive medicine Professional associations Quality of care Reinsurance Religion Religious education Sales promotion Science, Technology, Communications Small business State laws State taxation Students Subsidies Tax credits Tax exclusion Tax refunds Taxation Trade associations Trusts and trustees User charges Health 00 2005-05-05 Introduced in House 2008-05-07T16:47:00Z Patients' Health Care Reform Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment and governance of : (1) HealthMarts, which are nonprofit organizations that offer health benefits coverage to employers, employees, and individuals through contracts with health insurance issuers; and (2) individual membership associations (IMAs), which are organizations that offer health benefits coverage to members through health insurance issuer contracts.

Requires the Secretary of Heath and Human Services to pay 50 percent of a state's costs to provide health benefits coverage under a high-risk pool, a reinsurance pool, or other risk-adjustment mechanisms used to subsidize the purchase of private health insurance.

Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans, which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide individuals with a tax credit for payments for qualified health insurance and allows the Secretary to make advance payments of the credit to providers. Excludes from gross income any compensating coverage payment made by an employer to an employee who elects not to participate in the employer's subsidized health plan.

Requires health insurance issuers offering coverage in connection with a group health plan to provide certain information to the administrator of the plan, including information regarding: (1) plan benefits and exclusions; (2) a participant's financial responsibilities; and (3) legal recourse options for participants and beneficiaries.

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Patients' Health Care Reform Act Short Titles as Introduced Patients' Health Care Reform Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Small Business Access and Choice for Entrepreneurs Act of 2005 Display Title Patients' Health Care Reform Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable and advancable credit against income tax for health insurance costs, to allow employees who elect not to participate in employer subsidized health plans an exclusion from gross income for employer payments in lieu of such participation, and for other purposes. Introduced in House 2005-05-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr2203ih/xml/BILLS-109hr2203ih.xml 2005-05-31 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.