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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2499) Bill TextA bill to promote the development of health care cooperatives that will help businesses to pool the health care purchasing power of employers, and for other purposes. 3/1/2007--Introduced. Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to award grants for the development of health care purchasing cooperatives by two or more self-insured employers. Sets forth requirements for cooperatives, including that they: (1) are nonprofit, wholly owned, and democratically governed by its member-employers; (2) exist solely to serve the membership base; (3) assist members in pooling their health care insurance purchasing power; (4) provide data to improve the ability of the members to make data-based decisions regarding their health plans; and (5) conduct activities to enhance quality improvement in the health care community. Requires [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/31/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to ensure that liable entities meet environmental cleanup obligations, and for other purposes. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Cleanup Assurance and Polluter Accountability Act of 2007 or CAPA - Directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) finalize regulations under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) that require facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility for the risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances; (2) publish proposed financial assurance rules for classes of facilities that present the highest risk associated with such substances; and (3) annually promulgate financial assurance rules for additional classes of facilities, giving highest priority to classes that may contain sites at which unreimbursed response costs are at least $12,000. Requires facilities subject [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Agricultural cooperatives, Agriculture, Budgets, Business, Consumer education, Consumers, Cooperative societies, Employee health benefits, Farmers, Finance, Government and business, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Grants-in-aid, Health education, Health insurance, Health policy, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Labor, Medical care, Medical economics, Medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Politics and government, Quality of care, Self-care, Small business, Social services
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2499) Bill TextA bill to promote the development of health care cooperatives that will help businesses to pool the health care purchasing power of employers, and for other purposes. 3/1/2007--Introduced. Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to award grants for the development of health care purchasing cooperatives by two or more self-insured employers. Sets forth requirements for cooperatives, including that they: (1) are nonprofit, wholly owned, and democratically governed by its member-employers; (2) exist solely to serve the membership base; (3) assist members in pooling their health care insurance purchasing power; (4) provide data to improve the ability of the members to make data-based decisions regarding their health plans; and (5) conduct activities to enhance quality improvement in the health care community. Requires [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Bankruptcy, Business, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Consent decrees, Corporate management, Debtor and creditor, Economic policy, Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive departments, Finance, Governmental investigations, Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste sites, Hazardous wastes, Indexing (Economic policy), Law, Liability for environmental damages, Liability insurance, Licenses, Liens, Solid wastes, Transportation, Transportation of hazardous substances, Trusts and trustees
Latest Action: 01/31/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to ensure that liable entities meet environmental cleanup obligations, and for other purposes. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Cleanup Assurance and Polluter Accountability Act of 2007 or CAPA - Directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) finalize regulations under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) that require facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility for the risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances; (2) publish proposed financial assurance rules for classes of facilities that present the highest risk associated with such substances; and (3) annually promulgate financial assurance rules for additional classes of facilities, giving highest priority to classes that may contain sites at which unreimbursed response costs are at least $12,000. Requires facilities subject [...] show full description
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