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Latest Action: 01/09/2007 - Star Print ordered on the bill. Bill TextA bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Building construction, Building laws, Building materials, Business, Casualty insurance, Coinsurance, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Department of the Treasury, Disaster insurance, Earthquakes, Economic policy, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Fires, Floods, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Housing, Hurricanes, Indexing (Economic policy), Insurance premiums, Law, Losses, Property insurance, Public contracts, Reinsurance, Risk, State and local government, State laws, Storms, Surety and fidelity, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a program to provide reinsurance for State natural catastrophe insurance programs to help the United States better prepare for and protect its citizens against the ravages of natural catastrophes, to encourage and promote mitigation and prevention for, and recovery and rebuilding from such catastrophes, and to better assist in the financial recovery from such catastrophes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Homeowners Insurance Protection Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the National Commission on Catastrophe Preparation and Protection to advise the Secretary regarding estimated loss costs associated with contracts for reinsurance coverage. Authorizes the Secretary to make homeowners protection coverage available through contracts for reinsurance coverage. Restricts purchase of such coverage to eligible state programs. Prescribes criteria for state eligibility. Requires each contract for reinsurance coverage to provide insurance [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Antitrust law, Bankruptcy, Business, Casualty insurance, Corporate mergers, Corporate reorganizations, Department of the Treasury, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal preemption, Finance, Holding companies, Insurance agents, Insurance law, Law, Licenses, Life insurance, Ombudsman, Politics and government, Property insurance, State and local government, State laws
Latest Action: 05/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6849) Bill TextA bill to authorize the issuance of Federal charters and licenses for carrying on the sale, solicitation, negotiation, and underwriting of insurance or any other insurance operations, to provide a comprehensive system for the Federal regulation and supervision of national insurers and national agencies, to provide for policyholder protections in the event of an insolvency or the impairment of a national insurer, and for other purposes. 5/24/2007--Introduced. National Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury an Office of National Insurance (ONI), headed by a Commissioner of National Insurance, with Divisions of Insurance Fraud and of Consumer Affairs, and an Office of the Ombudsman.Authorizes the Commissioner to supervise, regulate, and provide for registration of insurance self-regulatory organizations. Requires the Commissioner to supervise national insurers and national agencies, including chartering and licensing. Removes them,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo prevent the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees as an unfair trade practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Life Insurance Employee Notification Act - Requires an employer to notify an employee in writing upon the purchase of an employer-owned insurance policy on the life of such employee for a beneficiary other than the individual who is the subject of the policy. Declares that violation of this Act constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Also tagged in: Bank accounts, Business, Casualty insurance, Disaster insurance, Earthquakes, Emergency management, Finance, Floods, Income tax, Law, Losses, Property insurance, Reinsurance, Storms, Tax deductions, Taxation, Trusts and trustees, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Water resources
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the creation of disaster protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) to make tax deductible contributions to a tax-exempt policyholder disaster protection fund established by this Act for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from certain catastrophic events, such as windstorms, earthquakes, fires, or floods.
Also tagged in: Apartment houses, Auctions, Auditing, Budgets, Building laws, Business, Condominium (Housing), Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Cooperative housing, Disaster insurance, Earthquakes, Economic policy, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Fires, Floods, Government information, Government liability, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Housing, Hurricanes, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Insurance premiums, Law, Property insurance, Public contracts, Reinsurance, Restrictive trade practices, State and local government, State laws, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Water resources
Latest Action: 01/09/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a Federal program to provide reinsurance to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance. 1/9/2007--Introduced. Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a reinsurance coverage program available only through contracts for reinsurance coverage purchased at regional auctions. States that the purpose of the program is to improve: (1) the availability of homeowners' insurance for the purpose of facilitating the pooling, and spreading the risk, of catastrophic financial losses from disasters; and (2) the solvency of the homeowners' insurance markets. Prescribes implementation guidelines that include establishment: (1) in the Treasury of the Disaster Reinsurance Fund; and (2) of a National Commission on Catastrophe Risks and Insurance Loss Costs.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Budgets, Business, Catastrophic health insurance, Child health, Children, Chronically ill, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumers, Drug advertising, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drugs, Education, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to child health services, Federal employees, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Flexible benefit plans, Fringe benefits, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Higher education, Hospital care, Income tax, Insurance premiums, Internet, Labor, Law, Living wills, Long-term care insurance, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical malpractice, Medical records, Medical supplies, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Physical examinations, Politics and government, Poor children, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Public contracts, Quality of care, Retiree health benefits, Standards, State and local government, State politics and government, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telephone, Terminal care, Web sites, Welfare
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - S.AMDT.4577 Referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away. 1/18/2007--Introduced. Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult individual to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI). Makes individuals who are not enrolled in another specified health plan and who are not opposed to coverage for religious reasons responsible for enrolling themselves and their dependent children in a HAPI plan offered through their state of residence. Sets forth penalties for failure to enroll. Establishes standardized coverage and state options for HAPI plans. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines concerning the benefits, items, and services to be covered. Sets forth requirements for setting premiums. Requires the Secretary to establish the Healthy America Advisory Committee to provide annual recommendations concerning modifications to [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Alabama, Budgets, Building laws, Business, Casualty insurance, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Depressed areas, Disaster insurance, Earthquakes, Economic policy, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Floods, Florida, Government insurance, Government trust funds, Housing, Hurricanes, Income tax, Legislation, Louisiana, Mississippi, Property insurance, Public-private partnerships, Reinsurance, Risk, Tax deferral, Tax exemption, Taxation, Texas, Tsunamis, Urban affairs, Volcanoes, Zoning and zoning law
Latest Action: 01/17/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a bipartisan commission on insurance reform. 1/17/2007--Introduced. Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the bipartisan Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance to assess: (1) the condition of the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and the four major hurricanes that struck the United States in 2004; (2) the ongoing exposure of the United States to windstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and floods; and (3) recommend and report legislative and regulatory changes that will improve the domestic and international financial health and competitiveness of such markets.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Air bag restraint systems, Automobile insurance, Business, Consumer education, Consumers, Department of Transportation, Executive departments, Finance, Identification devices, Law, Losses, Transportation
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Bill TextA bill to improve consumer access to passenger vehicle loss data held by insurers. 2/12/2007--Introduced. Passenger Vehicle Loss Disclosure Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require all insurers and self-insurers of passenger motor vehicles to disclose to the public, in a commercially reasonable, electronically accessible manner, for each passenger motor vehicle declared or determined to be a total loss: (1) the vehicle identification number and odometer reading; (2) the date of and primary reason for the total loss determination; and (3) whether the airbags deployed.
Also tagged in: Antitrust law, Business, Department of Justice, Executive departments, Federal Trade Commission, Finance, Independent regulatory commissions, Insurance, Jurisdiction, Law, Restrictive trade practices
Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Bill TextA bill to further competition in the insurance industry. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to make the Federal Trade Commission Act, as it relates to areas other than unfair methods of competition, applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by state law. Authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue joint statements of their antitrust enforcement policies regarding joint activities in the business of insurance.
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Latest Action: 09/29/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill Text
A bill to provide for financial market investigation, oversight, and reform.
Also tagged in: Ambulatory care, Business, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Consumer education, Consumers, Contraceptives, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drugs, Employee health benefits, Finance, Government information, Government paperwork, Health insurance, Health policy, Labor, Medical care, Medical economics, Medicine, Physical examinations, Rebates, Standards, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 05/22/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4803-4804) Bill TextA bill to require equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, and contraceptive services under health plans. 5/22/2008--Introduced. Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 [sic] - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from: (1) excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services; (2) denying eligibility based on use or potential use of such items or services; (3) providing monetary payments or rebates to a covered individual to encourage acceptance of less than the minimum protections available; (4) penalizing, reducing, or limiting a professional's reimbursement because the professional prescribed such drugs [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer reports and consumer information in making any determination involving personal lines of insurance with respect to a consumer, and for other purposes. 5/15/2008--Introduced. Personal Lines of Insurance Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a consumer reporting agency from furnishing to any person, and any person from using or obtaining, either a consumer report or consumer information for use in making any decision to underwrite or rate any personal lines of insurance. Exempts from such prohibition insurance information derived from specified data bases, including property loss, driver history, and medical history .
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Budgets, Business, Chronically ill, Civil rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Discrimination in medical care, Diseases, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal employees, Finance, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Health insurance, Health policy, Insurance premiums, Labor, Law, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Public contracts, Reinsurance, Self-employed, Small business, Standards
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3599) Bill TextA bill to provide quality, affordable health insurance for small employers and individuals. 4/30/2008--Introduced. Small Business Empowerment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national program to make quality, affordable health insurance available to small employers and self-employed individuals in a manner that will spread risk on a national basis, modeled on the federal employees health benefit program.Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with an eligible entity for administration of the program. Authorizes such administrator to provide health insurance coverage to employees of participating employers and individuals. Directs such administrator to: (1) establish a pilot program to provide for the offering by carriers of a model health benefits plan; and (2) contract with the Institute of Medicine to assess the impact of the program on health care coverage costs and access.Sets minimum standards for program health [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 07/09/2008 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Bill TextTo establish an Office of Insurance Information in the Department of the Treasury. 4/17/2008--Introduced. Insurance Information Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to advise the President and Congress on domestic and international policy issues regarding all lines of insurance except health insurance. Establishes within the Department of the Treasury the Office of Insurance Information, headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary, to: (1) collect, analyze, and disseminate information and issue reports regarding all lines of insurance except health insurance; (2) establish federal policy on international insurance matters and ensure that state insurance laws are consistent with agreements between the United States and a foreign government or regulatory entity; and (3) advise the Secretary on major domestic and international insurance policy issues. Extends the authority of the Office to all lines of insurance except health insurance. Preempts [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Bermuda, Business, Business records, Caribbean area, Corporate governance, Corporation directors, Europe, Federal preemption, Finance, Financial statements, Government information, Government paperwork, Injunctions, Law, Liability insurance, Property insurance, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Trusts and trustees, United Kingdom
Latest Action: 07/09/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises. Bill TextTo amend the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 to increase insurance competition and available coverage for consumers. 4/15/2008--Introduced. Increasing Insurance Coverage Options for Consumers Act of 2008 - Amends the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 to cover risk retention groups offering commercial property insurance. Applies the exemption of purchasing groups from state law to commercial property insurance. Terminates the inclusion in risk retention groups under the Act of any such group chartered, licensed, or authorized under the laws of Bermuda or the Cayman Islands. Prescribes general corporate governance standards for such groups, together with license or charter criteria regarding state examination authority and minimum requirements for safety and soundness. Prohibits a risk retention group from participating in an insurance insolvency guaranty association that includes participants other than risk retention groups. Revises procedures [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit certain discriminatory uses of consumer reports and consumer information in connection with certain personal lines of insurance, and for other purposes. 3/13/2008--Introduced. Nondiscriminatory Use of Consumer Reports and Consumer Information Act of 2008 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a consumer reporting agency from furnishing to any person, and any person from using or obtaining, a consumer report or consumer information for use in making any decision to underwrite or rate any personal lines of insurance for which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) determines that such use: (1) results in racial or ethnic discrimination; or (2) represents a proxy or proxy effect for race or ethnicity. Excludes from such proscription insurance information, including property loss data, driver history, and medical history, derived from specified data bases.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Business, Civil rights, Consumer education, Consumers, Department of Health and Human Services, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Finance, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Health insurance, Health policy, Insurance premiums, Labor, Law, Medical care, Medical economics, Medicine
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit discrimination in group health coverage and individual health insurance coverage. 2/14/2008--Introduced. No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2008 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan from imposing any preexisting conditions exclusion.Requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the group market in a state to: (1) accept every employer in the state that applies for such coverage; (2) accept enrollment for every eligible individual who applies during the enrollment period; (3) charge the same premium price for the same coverage; and (4) openly disclose such premium price.Eliminates provisions allowing nonfederal governmental plans to opt out of certain group health plan [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/11/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextA bill to amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, to temporarily reduce the insurer deductibles for insurers sustaining insured losses from large terrorism events. 2/11/2008--Introduced. Terrorism Risk Insurance Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of "insurer deductible" with respect to a situation where aggregate industry insured losses resulting from a certified act of terrorism exceed $1 billion for an insurer that sustains any of such losses. Sets forth a calculation for the value of such an insurer's direct earned premiums over the calendar year immediately preceding the program year.
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises. Bill TextTo amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to temporarily reduce the insurer deductibles for insurers sustaining insured losses from large terrorism events. 12/17/2007--Introduced. Terrorism Risk Insurance Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to revise the definition of "insurer deductible" with respect to a situation where aggregate industry insured losses resulting from a certified act of terrorism exceed $1 billion for an insurer that sustains any of such losses. Sets forth a calculation for the value of such an insurer's direct earned premiums over the calendar year immediately preceding the program year.
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