[History of Bills, Volume 143 (1997)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 1515--A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income 
    Security Act of 1974 to provide new portability, participation, 
    solvency, and other health insurance protections and freedoms for 
    workers in the mobile work force, to increase the purchasing power 
    of employees and employers by removing barriers to the voluntary 
    formation of association health plans, to increase health plan 
    competition providing more affordable choice of coverage, to 
    expand access to health insurance coverage for employees of small 
    employers through open market, and for other purposes; to the 
    Committee on Education and the Workforce.


By Mr. FAWELL (for himself, Mr. Goodling, Mr. Hastert, Mr. Armey, Mr. 
Pickett, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Poshard, Mr. 
Traficant, Mr. McHale, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Costello, Mr. 
Ackerman, Mr. Frost, Mr. Condit, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. 
Boswell, Mr. Rush, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Petri, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. 
Ballenger, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Sam Johnson, Mr. Talent, Mr. 
Greenwood, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Riggs, Mr. Graham, Mr. Souder, Mr. 
McIntosh, Mr. Paul, Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Upton, Mr. Deal 
of Georgia, Mr. Hilleary, Mr. Scarborough, Mr. Baker, Mr. Bartlett of 
Maryland, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Bateman, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Bonilla, 
Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Canady of 
Florida, Mr. Collins, Mr. Cooksey, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Crane, 
Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Dickey, Ms. Dunn of Washington, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. 
English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Foley, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Fox of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gilman, Mr. 
Goss, Mr. Herger, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Horn, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. 
Houghton, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Kim, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. 
LaHood, Mr. Leach, Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. Linder, Mr. McCollum, 
Mr. McHugh, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mrs. Morella, Mrs. 
Myrick, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Ney, Mr. Packard, Mr. Porter, Ms. Pryce of 
Ohio, Mr. Quinn, Mr. Regula, Mr. Royce, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Dan Schaefer 
of Colorado, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Shays, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Smith of Texas, 
Mrs. Linda Smith of Washington, Mr. Snowbarger, Mr. Solomon, Mr. 
Spence, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Watkins, Mr. Watts of 
Oklahoma, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Weldon of Florida, Mr. 
Weller, and Mr. Wicker), H2155 [1MY]

  Cosponsors added, H2590 [13MY], H2680 [14MY], H2883 [19MY], H3213 
  [30MY], H4087 [19JN], H4647 [25JN], H5132 [10JY], H5826 [25JY]
  Removal of cosponsors, H4339 [24JN]