Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act
Latest action · May 9, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedJan 9, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to incrementally increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25.
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans (AHPs), which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations, and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements.
Establishes the Association Health Plan Fund to be used by the Secretary of Labor to make payments to an insurer to maintain coverage for a plan, if there is a reasonable expectation that, without such payments, claims would not be satisfied by reason of termination of coverage.
Requires the Secretary to establish a Solvency Standards Working Group.
Allows a state to impose a contribution tax on an association health plan, if the plan commenced operations in such state after the date of enactment of this Act.
Preempts any state law that may preclude a health insurance issuer from: (1) offering health insurance coverage in connection with a certified AHP; or (2) offering health insurance coverage of the same policy type to other employers operating in the state which are eligible for coverage under such AHPs, whether or not such other employers are participating employers in such plan.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the increased expensing allowance for small business assets. Revises the definition of "qualified restaurant property" to eliminate the requirement that improvements to restaurant property must be placed in service more than three years after the original building is placed in service.
Cosponsors 35
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 9, 2007 to Jan 18, 2007; 25 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CA | Daniel E. Lungren | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-MI | Dave Camp | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-NV | Dean Heller | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-MT | Denny Rehberg | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-OH | Jean Schmidt | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-IL | Jerry Weller | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-LA | Jim McCrery | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-VA | Jo Ann Davis | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-AR | John Boozman | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-MN | John Kline | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-GA | John Linder | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-NV | Jon C. Porter | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-IL | Judy Biggert | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-IL | Mark Kirk | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-OH | Patrick J. Tiberi | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-PA | Phil English | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-LA | Richard H. Baker | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-AL | Robert B. Aderholt | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-NJ | Rodney P. Frelinghuysen | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-VA | Thelma D. Drake | Original | Jan 9, 2007 |
| R-LA | Bobby Jindal | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Kenny Marchant | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Kevin McCarthy | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-AZ | Rick Renzi | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Jan 10, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Elton Gallegly | Jan 18, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Kay Granger | Jan 18, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Thaddeus G. McCotter | Jan 18, 2007 | |
| R-PA | Todd Russell Platts | Jan 18, 2007 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 9, 2007 |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred May 9, 2007 | |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred May 9, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 9, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- May 9, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 9, 2007Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
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.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL32275 | Small Business Tax Preferences: Significant Legislative Proposals in the 110th Congress Archived | Report | Jun 7, 2007 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 241 | Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007 | Related bill | May 9, 2007 |
| HR 1012 | Small Business Growth Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jun 5, 2007 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To increase the minimum wage, to provide access to health care coverage to employees of small businesses, and to preserve American jobs.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Bankruptcy
- Building construction
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Collective bargaining
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction costs
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Delegation of powers
- Department of Labor
- Depreciation and amortization
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employee health benefits
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal preemption
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Flexible benefit plans
- Franchises (Retail trade)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health care fraud
- Health insurance
- Income tax
- Injunctions
- Insurance
- Insurance agents
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Labor contracts
- Labor unions
- Law
- Licenses
- Medical economics
- Medically uninsured
- Minimum wages
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Professional associations
- Restaurants
- Small business
- Standards
- State laws
- State taxation
- Surety and fidelity
- Tax deductions
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Trade associations
- Trusts and trustees
- Unemployment insurance
- Valuation
- Withholding tax
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced 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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
