H.R.2532: Health Insurance Access Amendments of 1997

About This Bill

  • This bill was introduced in the 105th Congress
  • This bill is primarily about government operations and politics
  • Introduced Sept. 23, 1997
  • Latest Major Action Nov. 7, 1997

Bill Summary

Health Insurance Access Amendments of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to decrease, in three steps over two years, the period during which a group health plan (and a health insurer offering group coverage) may impose a preexisting condition exclusion. (Sec. 3) Amends PHSA provisions relating to guaranteed availability of individual coverage to...

(Source: Library of Congress)

Bill Actions

Date Description
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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.
Referred to House Commerce
Referred to House Ways and Means
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Sept. 23, 1997

Introduced in the House by Pete Stark (D-Calif.)

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