HR 1322 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2001

Introduced Mar 29, 2001 Originated House Sponsor John F. Tierney D-MA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jun 20, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 29, 2001
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2001 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide emergency protections for retiree health benefits.

Prohibits group health plans from making post-retirement reductions of retiree health benefits.

Requires group health plans to adopt provisions barring post-retirement reductions in retiree health benefits.

Requires group health plans to restore benefits reduced after retirement. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to waive or vary such requirements, if a plan sponsor applies for such exemption, upon finding that compliance would: (1) be adverse to the interests of plan participants in the aggregate; (2) not be administratively feasible; and (3) cause substantial business hardship to the sponsor.

Establishes the Emergency Retiree Health Loan Guarantee Program and its Board. Authorizes the Program, through its Board, to guarantee loans provided by private banking and investment institutions to eligible plan sponsors to assist them in meeting obligations under this Act to restore benefits reduced after retirement.

Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties for violations of this Act.

Cosponsors 96

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2001 to Nov 13, 2002, with 58 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-MABarney FrankOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-MSBennie G. ThompsonOriginalMar 29, 2001
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-MABill DelahuntOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-CABob FilnerOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-CABrad ShermanOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-MICarolyn C. KilpatrickOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-PAChaka FattahOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-TXCharles A. GonzalezOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-GACynthia A. McKinneyOriginalMar 29, 2001
D-MIDale E. KildeeOriginalMar 29, 2001
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jun 20, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
  2. Mar 29, 2001Introduced in House
  3. Mar 29, 2001Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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