[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1594 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1594

 To require employers to notify workers before health care benefits or 
                  retirement benefits are terminated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 1997

 Mr. Costello introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require employers to notify workers before health care benefits or 
                  retirement benefits are terminated.

    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 ``Retired Worker Health Security Act 
of 1997''.

SEC. 2. BENEFIT NOTICE.

    No employer may terminate the health care benefits or retirement 
benefits it provides its employees before the end of a 60-day period 
after the employer serves written notice of such termination to the 
employees and to the labor organization representatives of such 
employees.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of section 2, the term ``employer'' means any business 
enterprise which has 100 or more employees or 500 or more employees who 
have retired and receive or will receive health and pension benefits 
from such enterprise.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 2 shall take effect 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

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