EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT (ERISA)

Amendments

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4560 [16JY]

Pensions: reform funding rules for cooperative associations and small charitable employers to ensure their ability to provide pension plans to employees (S. 1302), S531, S546 [28JA]

Bills and resolutions

Health: provide protection for retiree health benefits (see H.R. 5523), H7675 [17SE]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (see S. 2578), S4336 [9JY] (see H.R. 5051), H6035 [9JY]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: clarify definition of substantial cessation of operations (see S. 2511), S3863 [19JN]

Pensions: establish a special rule for determining normal retirement age for certain existing defined benefit plans (see H.R. 5792), H8668 [4DE]

——— extend automatic extension of amortization periods and funding improvement and rehabilitation plan rules relative to multiemployer defined benefit pension plans (see H.R. 5773), H8225 [1DE]

——— permit multiemployer plans in critical status to modify plan rules relative to withdrawal liability (see H.R. 5802), H8669 [4DE]

——— reform funding rules for cooperative associations and small charitable employers to ensure their ability to provide pension plans to employees (see H.R. 4275), H2488 [18MR]

——— require plans to establish policies on firm-specific risks in asset management services, greater diversification in investment strategies, and inclusion of diverse asset managers and minority brokerage firms (see H.R. 5877), H9303 [11DE]

Unemployment: extend unemployment benefits with offsets, reform program, terminate benefits to jobless millionaires, and eliminate overlapping benefits with the Social Security Disability Insurance program (see S. 2097), S1366 [6MR]

Cloture motions

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), motion to proceed, S4451 [14JY], S4535 [16JY]

Motions

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4443 [14JY], S4461 [15JY], S4513 [16JY]

Remarks in House

Diseases: require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to cover oral cancer drugs on terms no less favorable than for cancer medications administered by a health care provider (H.R. 1801), H2699 [27MR]

House of Representatives: call for civil action in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge certain executive branch actions (H. Res. 442), H114–H118 [9JA]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (H.R. 5051), H6238–H6240 [15JY], H6356, H6359–H6363 [17JY], E1186 [17JY]

Pensions: extend automatic extension of amortization periods and funding improvement and rehabilitation plan rules relative to multiemployer defined benefit pension plans (H.R. 5773), E1680 [1DE]

——— reform funding rules for cooperative associations and small charitable employers to ensure their ability to provide pension plans to employees (H.R. 4275), H2577–H2589 [24MR]

Roads and highways: extend Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other Highway Trust Fund-funded programs through reductions in private-sector pensions guarantees, H6257 [15JY]

SEC: protect retail customers from differing standards of conduct for brokers and investment advisers and confusion from rule changes (H.R. 2374), H7110 [30JY]

Unemployment: extend unemployment benefits with offsets, reform program, terminate benefits to jobless millionaires, and eliminate overlapping benefits with the Social Security Disability Insurance program (S. 2097), H2858 [3AP]

Remarks in Senate

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4365 [9JY], S4368 [10JY], S5401 [9SE], S5481, S5493 [10SE]

——— ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), motion to proceed, S4443, S4451 [14JY], S4461–S4468, S4474–S4476, S4480–S4483, S4489–S4491, S4495 [15JY], S4513, S4516, S4519–S4535, S4537 [16JY]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: clarify definition of substantial cessation of operations (S. 2511), S5647–S5649 [16SE], S5687 [17SE]

Pensions: reform funding rules for cooperative associations and small charitable employers to ensure their ability to provide pension plans to employees (S. 1302), S545–S554 [28JA]

Roads and highways: extend Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other Highway Trust Fund-funded programs through reductions in private-sector pensions guarantees, S4651 [21JY], S5021, S5024, S5037 [29JY]

Unemployment: extend unemployment benefits with offsets, reform program, terminate benefits to jobless millionaires, and eliminate overlapping benefits with the Social Security Disability Insurance program (S. 2097), S1369, S1370 [6MR], S1371 [10MR]

Reports filed

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Definition of Substantial Cessation of Operations Clarification: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2511), S5374 [8SE]

Texts of

H.R. 4275, Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act, H2577–H2588 [24MR]

S. 1302, Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act, S546–S554 [28JA]

S. 2511, clarify Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. definition of substantial cessation of operations, S5647 [16SE]