Healthy Kids for Healthy Futures Act of 2009
Latest action · Jun 4, 2009 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.
- IntroducedMay 6, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Kids for Healthy Futures Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for appropriate preventive care for a participant's dependent child who is not more than 18 years of age. Defines "appropriate preventive care" to mean medical care that meets the most recent Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Prohibits a group health plan from imposing any cost-sharing for such preventive services.
Prohibits a group health plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act.
Applies the provisions of this Act to individual health insurance coverage.
Excludes a plan from being treated as a high deductible health plan unless the requirements of this Act are met.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 6, 2009 to Sep 14, 2009; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | May 6, 2009 |
| D-PA | Joe Sestak | Sep 14, 2009 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 6, 2009 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 6, 2009 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Jun 4, 2009 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 6, 2009 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 7, 2009 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 4, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- May 7, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 6, 2009Introduced in House
- May 6, 2009Referred to House Ways and Means
- May 6, 2009Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
- May 6, 2009Referred to House Education and Labor
- May 6, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require coverage of preventive care for children.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Healthy Kids for Healthy Futures Act of 2009
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 6, 2009Introduced in House
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