US SB3610 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on May 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-05-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on May 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-05-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Permits entities such as self-employed companies and membership organizations to form healthshare pools to offer large group health insurance plans as a single employer. (In general, large group health plans cover employees of an employer that has 51 or more employees; in some states, large groups are defined as 101 employees or more.) Subject to specified nondiscrimination rules related to preexisting conditions and health status, healthshare pools must offer plans to all members or employees of the pool on an equal basis.Healthshare pools are not considered joint employers for the purpose of other federal labor or employment laws.
Title
American Healthshare Plans Act of 2020
Sponsors
Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY] | Sen. Mitt Romney [R-UT] | Sen. James Lankford [R-OK] | Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] |
Sen. Joni Ernst [R-IA] | Sen. Mike Braun [R-IN] | Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE] | Sen. Kelly Loeffler [R-GA] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-05-05 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
Same As/Similar To
HB6712 (Same As) 2020-05-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Subjects
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3610/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3610/BILLS-116s3610is.pdf |