3.0.0 4219 2023-08-31T10:00:29Z 2023-08-31T10:00:29Z Senate S 2022-05-12 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-05-12T21:00:32Z Mental Health Matters Act 117 7780 HR 2022-10-11 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2022 117 7740 HR 2022-05-12 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Identical bill CRS 2022-05-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2022-05-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN N Labor and Employment Labor and Employment 00 2022-05-12 Introduced in Senate 2023-08-31T09:54:29Z Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2022

This bill prohibits employers from including certain mandatory arbitration clauses, class action waivers, representation waivers, or discretionary clauses in employee benefit plans. It also prohibits these provisions from being enforced with respect to claims brought by plan participants or beneficiaries.

]]> Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2022 Display Title Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2022 Short Title(s) as Introduced Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide that any mandatory predispute or coerced postdispute arbitration clause, class action waiver, representation waiver, or discretionary clause with respect to a plan is unenforceable, to prohibit any such clause or waiver from being included in a plan document or other agreement with plan participants, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4219is/xml/BILLS-117s4219is.xml 2022-05-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.