Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005
Latest action · May 13, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
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.
- IntroducedApr 28, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small employers (employers with between two and 50 employees) a business tax credit for payment of employee health insurance costs; (2) allow private foundations to make grants to a qualified health benefit purchasing coalition. Defines "qualified health benefit purchasing coalition" as a private non-profit corporation which sells health insurance to employers through State licensed health insurance issuers.
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award demonstration grants to States to develop innovative ways to increase access to health insurance through market reforms and other means; and (2) the Small Business Administration (SBA) to award grants to States, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to provide information to small employers about the benefits of health insurance.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 13, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Apr 28, 2005Introduced in House
- Apr 28, 2005Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2001 | Small Business Health Insurance Expansion Act of 2005 | Related bill | May 13, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Access to health care
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Consumer education
- Cooperative societies
- Corporations
- Cost of living adjustments
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employee health benefits
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Excise tax
- Federal preemption
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foundations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health insurance
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Medical economics
- Medically uninsured
- Nonprofit organizations
- Quality of care
- Reinsurance
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Tax credits
- Tax penalties
- Taxation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 28, 2005Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.