2nd Quarter - Report — VSP for VSP (2018)

Firm

VSP

Client

VSP

Income

—

Expenses

$90,000

Expense method

C: businesses, Internal Revenue Code section 162(e)

What was lobbied

4 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Monitor competition issues in the global eyewear market

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CECIL SWAMIDOSS	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Consumer Issues/Safety/Products CSP

Monitor competition issues in the global eyewear market

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CECIL SWAMIDOSS	—

Contacted: SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues pertaining to tax treatment of employee-sponsored health benefits; Pub. L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Pub. L. 111-152, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, provision related to insurer fee; H.R. 246, To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act, Section 222, Better Care Reconciliation Act (S. __), Sec. 114.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CECIL SWAMIDOSS	—

Contacted: SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: H.R. 1628 (115th), H.R. 246 (115th)

Health Issues HCR

Pub. L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (section 1311); Pub. L. 111-152, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (section 1406); H.R. 1606, DOC Access Act of 2017; H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017; Better Care Reconciliation Act

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CECIL SWAMIDOSS	—

Contacted: SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 1628 (115th), H.R. 1606 (115th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.