[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1817 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1817

   To require that employers offering benefits to associates of its 
   employees who are not spouses or dependents of the employees not 
discriminate on the basis of the nature of the relationship between the 
                employee and the designated associates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require that employers offering benefits to associates of its 
   employees who are not spouses or dependents of the employees not 
discriminate on the basis of the nature of the relationship between the 
                employee and the designated associates.

    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 ``Nondiscrimination in Employee 
Benefits Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. NONDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS.

    Section 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
is amended by inserting before the last sentence the following: ``In a 
case in which an employer elects to offer benefits to associates of its 
employees who are not spouses or dependents of the employees, the 
employer shall offer such benefits on a nondiscriminatory basis without 
regard to the nature of the relationship between the employee and the 
designated associate.''.
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