US Congress House Bill 3455 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)
Status: Introduced on July 31 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-10-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with a volunteer employees' beneficiary association (VEBA) established after enactment of this Act for the benefit of eligible separated employees of Delphi Corporation (and their dependents) in order to transfer amounts to the VEBA for purposes of establishing, or obtaining coverage under, a health care plan for the benefit of such employees (and dependents). Limits the application of this Act to employees with respect to whom the obligation of Delphi Corporation or General Motors Corporation to provide health care coverage has been discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding. Directs the Secretary to make available up to $3 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds, under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), to provide health care coverage that is substantially the same as the coverage the obligation for which was so discharged.

To make available funds from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for funding a voluntary employees' beneficiary association with respect to former employees of Delphi Corporation.

Rep. Steve Austria [R-OH]	Rep. John Boccieri [D-OH]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]
Rep. Mary Kilroy [D-OH]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]	Rep. Steven LaTourette [R-OH]	Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Michael Turner [R-OH]
Rep. Charles Wilson [D-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-10-22		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2009-07-31		Referred to House Education and Labor
2009-07-31		Referred to House Financial Services
2009-07-31		Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.

SB1663 (Same As) 2009-09-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3455/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr3455/BILLS-111hr3455ih.pdf