S 104 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2001

Introduced Jan 22, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Olympia J. Snowe R-ME

Latest action · Sep 10, 2001 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 107-391.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 22, 2001
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2001 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from: (1) excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services; (2) denying eligibility based on use or potential use of such items or services; (3) providing monetary payments or rebates to a covered individual to encourage acceptance of less than the minimum protections available; (4) penalizing, reducing, or limiting a professional's reimbursement because the professional prescribed such drugs or devices or provided such services; or (5) providing incentives to a professional to induce the professional to withhold drugs, devices, or services. Amends the Public Health Service Act to apply those prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market.

Cosponsors 43

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2001 to Apr 26, 2002; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Arlen Specter	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-CA	Barbara Boxer	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-HI	Daniel K. Akaka	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-HI	Daniel K. Inouye	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-NV	Harry Reid	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Original	Jan 22, 2001
R-VT	James M. Jeffords	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-MA	John F. Kerry	Original	Jan 22, 2001
R-VA	John Warner	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-NJ	Jon S. Corzine	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-WA	Patty Murray	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-MN	Paul D. Wellstone	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-MD	Paul S. Sarbanes	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	Jan 22, 2001
R-ME	Susan M. Collins	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-SD	Tim Johnson	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-IA	Tom Harkin	Original	Jan 22, 2001
D-MI	Carl Levin		Jan 23, 2001
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow		Jan 23, 2001
R-RI	Lincoln Chafee		Jan 23, 2001
R-OR	Gordon H. Smith		Jan 24, 2001
D-NC	John Edwards		Jan 30, 2001
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu		Jan 30, 2001
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln		Jan 31, 2001
D-CT	Christopher J. Dodd		Jan 31, 2001
D-IN	Evan Bayh		Feb 1, 2001
D-NJ	Robert G. Torricelli		Feb 27, 2001
D-RI	Jack Reed		Mar 8, 2001
D-SD	Thomas A. Daschle		Mar 8, 2001
D-WA	Maria Cantwell		Mar 30, 2001
D-GA	Max Cleland		Apr 2, 2001
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy		May 1, 2001
I-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman		May 1, 2001
D-CA	Dianne Feinstein		May 14, 2001
D-MT	Max Baucus		May 14, 2001
D-DE	Thomas R. Carper		May 14, 2001
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman		Jun 7, 2001
D-MO	Jean Carnahan		Jun 18, 2001
D-MN	Mark Dayton		Sep 5, 2001
D-DE	Joseph R. Biden Jr.		Apr 26, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee	Referred Jan 22, 2001Hearings Sep 10, 2001

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Sep 10, 2001Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 107-391.
Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate
Jan 22, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S376-378)
Jan 22, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S375–S377	Harry Reid D-NV, Olympia J. Snowe R-ME	Jan 22, 2001

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 107-1001	WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND CORPS REFORMS159 pages	Environment and Public Works Committee	Jun 18, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-391	IMPROVING WOMEN'S HEALTH: WHY CONTRACEPTIVE INSURANCE COVERAGE MATTERS59 pages	Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee	Sep 10, 2001

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1111	Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2001	Related bill	May 30, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to require equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, and contraceptive services under health plans.
Short Titles as Introduced: Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2001

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate

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