HR 848 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Health Benefits Claims Prompt Payment Act of 2003

Introduced Feb 13, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Max Sandlin D-TX

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 10, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedFeb 13, 2003
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Health Benefits Claims Prompt Payment Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide for prompt payment for health benefits claims.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
  2. Feb 26, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Feb 13, 2003Introduced in House
  4. Feb 13, 2003Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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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