[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2870 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2870

To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
 to exempt from preemption under such title certain provisions of the 
        law of the State of Washington relating to health plans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 4, 1993

Mr. Kreidler (for himself, Mr. Swift, Mr. Dicks, Ms. Cantwell, and Mrs. 
   Unsoeld) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
 to exempt from preemption under such title certain provisions of the 
        law of the State of Washington relating to health plans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Washington State Health Services 
Reform Enabling Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM ERISA PREEMPTION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE 
              LAW OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON RELATING TO HEALTH PLANS.

    Section 514(b) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 
1974 (29 U.S.C. 1144(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
    ``(9) Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to the 
following provisions of the law of the State of Washington--
            ``(A) section 212 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993 (relating to 
        enrollment of certain employees in the Washington basic health 
        plan);
            ``(B) sections 301 and 304 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993 
        (relating to taxation of premiums and hospitals);
            ``(C) sections 406(7) and 454 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993 
        (relating to medical risk adjustment mechanisms);
            ``(D) section 427 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993 (relating to 
        benefits required to be offered by registered employer health 
        plans);
            ``(E) section 430 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993 (relating to 
        requirements applicable to registered employer health plans); 
        and
            ``(F) section 464 of Chapter 492, Laws of 1993, as amended 
        by section 3 of Chapter 494, Laws of 1993 (relating to 
        requirements that employers offer and pay a portion of the 
        costs of employee health care coverage).''.

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