HR 2073 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Small Business Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2005

Introduced May 4, 2005 Originated House Sponsor John Barrow D-GA

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Latest action · May 23, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMay 4, 2005
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Small Business Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small employers (not more than 50 employees) a business tax credit equal to 50 percent of amounts paid by such employers for the health care coverage of their employees under a qualified health pooling arrangement. Limits the period during which the tax credit may be taken to four years from the date the employer begins participating in a qualified health pooling arrangement. Defines "qualified health pooling arrangement" as a national or state arrangement that provides health benefits coverage substantially similar to that of the four largest health benefit plans offered to Federal employees.

Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor to provide for the offering and oversight of qualified State and national health pooling arrangements and to conduct a study, through the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, of the operation of such arrangements.

Cosponsors 107

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 4, 2005 to Sep 12, 2006; 95 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAdam B. SchiffOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXAl GreenOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-PAAllyson Y. SchwartzOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAAnna G. EshooOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYAnthony D. WeinerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MIBart StupakOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYBrian HigginsOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MDC. A. Dutch RuppersbergerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MICarolyn C. KilpatrickOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXCharles A. GonzalezOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-LACharlie MelanconOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MDChris Van HollenOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MIDale E. KildeeOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-GADavid ScottOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-FLDebbie Wasserman SchultzOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CODiana DeGetteOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJDonald M. PayneOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MDElijah E. CummingsOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYEliot L. EngelOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MOEmanuel CleaverOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAFortney Pete StarkOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJFrank Pallone, Jr.OriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NCG. K. ButterfieldOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYGary L. AckermanOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXGene GreenOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYGregory W. MeeksOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TNHarold E. Ford Jr.OriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAHenry A. WaxmanOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAHoward L. BermanOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MNJames L. OberstarOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAJames P. McGovernOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-RIJames R. LangevinOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYJerrold NadlerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-WAJim McDermottOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAJoe BacaOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CTJohn B. LarsonOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MIJohn D. DingellOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAJohn F. TierneyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-GAJohn LewisOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-PAJohn P. MurthaOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-COJohn T. SalazarOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAJohn W. OlverOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYJose E. SerranoOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYJoseph CrowleyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAJuanita Millender-McDonaldOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-INJulia CarsonOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CALinda T. SánchezOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXLloyd DoggettOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYLouise McIntosh SlaughterOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CALucille Roybal-AllardOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CALynn C. WoolseyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYMajor R. OwensOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYMaurice D. HincheyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MEMichael H. MichaudOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CAMichael M. HondaOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NYMichael R. McNultyOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-ARMike RossOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CANancy PelosiOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-ORPeter A. DeFazioOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-VARick BoucherOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-WARick LarsenOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJRobert E. AndrewsOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJRobert MenendezOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CTRosa L. DeLauroOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXRuben HinojosaOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-NJRush HoltOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MORuss CarnahanOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CASam FarrOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXSheila Jackson LeeOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-OHSherrod BrownOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXSilvestre ReyesOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-TXSolomon P. OrtizOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MDSteny H. HoyerOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-SDStephanie Herseth SandlinOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAStephen F. LynchOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CASusan A. DavisOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-WITammy BaldwinOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-OHTed StricklandOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-METhomas H. AllenOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-OHTim RyanOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-CATom LantosOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-LAWilliam J. JeffersonOriginalMay 4, 2005
D-MAMichael E. CapuanoMay 10, 2005
D-HINeil AbercrombieMay 10, 2005
D-MOWm. Lacy ClayMay 10, 2005
D-NYTimothy H. BishopMay 26, 2005
D-WIGwen MooreJun 15, 2005
D-NMTom UdallOct 6, 2005
D-MAMartin T. MeehanMar 7, 2006
D-ILLane EvansMar 13, 2006
D-CABob FilnerMay 4, 2006
D-CADoris O. MatsuiMay 4, 2006
D-ILDanny K. DavisMay 19, 2006
D-MABill DelahuntSep 12, 2006

Committees 3

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

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseWays and Means Committee
Referred May 4, 2005
HouseEnergy and Commerce Committee
Referred May 4, 2005
Health Subcommittee
Referred May 23, 2005
HouseEducation and Workforce Committee
Referred May 4, 2005
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee
Referred May 20, 2005

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 23, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
  2. May 20, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
  3. May 4, 2005Introduced in House
  4. May 4, 2005Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, 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.

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.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H3757Kendrick B. Meek D-FLMay 23, 2005

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax subsidies to encourage small employers to offer affordable health coverage to their employees through qualified health pooling arrangements, to encourage the establishment and operation of these arrangements, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
Small Business Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2005

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 4, 2005Introduced in House

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