[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2622 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2622

To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
  to require de novo review of claims determinations made by employee 
                             benefit plans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2007

  Mrs. McCarthy of New York 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 require de novo review of claims determinations made by employee 
                             benefit 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 ``Equality for Workers under ERISA Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. DE NOVO REVIEW OF CLAIMS DETERMINATIONS BY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT 
              PLANS.

    (a) In General.--Section 502(e) of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1132(e)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Any action commenced under subsection (a)(1)(B) shall be 
adjudicated as a de novo proceeding without deference to any claim 
determination made prior to the commencement of such action.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to claim determinations made by plans on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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