Pending Retiree Protection Legislation - 4/12/06
Owner Bill Number Type Description Related to Text Link PDF Link NRLN or AASBCR Priority Item
S. 1262 Healthcare Cost Containment To reduce healthcare costs, improve efficiency, and improve healthcare quality through the development of a nationwide interoperable health information technology system, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
S. 1355 Healthcare Cost Containment To enhance the adoption of health information technology and to improve the quality and reduce the costs of healthcare in the United States. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT PDF  
S. 1827 Healthcare Cost Containment To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the public disclosure of charges for certain hospital services and drugs. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
S. 1955 Healthcare Cost Containment To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to expand health care access and reduce costs through the creation of small business health plans and through modernization of the health insurance marketplace. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R. 700 Healthcare Drugs To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes. [Introduced in House] Companion bill S. 334. S334 TEXT    PDF High
H.R. 753 Healthcare Drugs To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to protect the public health from the unsafe importation of prescription drugs and from counterfeit prescription drugs, and for other purposes. [Introduced in House] S184 TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 2487 Healthcare Drugs To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to provide additional beneficiary protections. [Introduced in House]   TEXT PDF  
S. 16 Healthcare Drugs Reduce cost of healtchare. Including Drug reimportation   TEXT PDF  
S. 184 Healthcare Drugs To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to protect the public health from the unsafe importation of prescription drugs and from counterfeit prescription drugs, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate] HR735 TEXT  PDF  
S. 334 Healthcare Drugs To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate]  HR700 TEXT PDF High
S. 813 Healthcare Drugs To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate for lower prices for medicare prescription drugs. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 55 Healthcare Federal Parity To make the Federal employees health benefits program available to individuals age 55 to 65 who would not otherwise have health insurance. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R 1200 Healthcare General To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R 1955 Healthcare General To establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R 2355 Healthcare General To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 676 Healthcare General To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF High
H.R. 2133 Healthcare General Guaranteed affordable healtcare. Limitation 300% poverty level   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 3074 Healthcare General To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers. [Introduced in House]   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 3891 Healthcare General To amend the Social Security Act to provide grants and flexibility through demonstration projects for States to provide universal, comprehensive, cost-effective systems of health care coverage, with simplified administration. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 4256 Healthcare General To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assure comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage for all Americans through an American Health Benefits Program. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
S. 637 Healthcare General To establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT   PDF  
S. 820 Healthcare General 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. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
S. 874 Healthcare General To establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes. [Placed on Calendar Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
S. 1225 Healthcare General To expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT PDF  
S. 1329 Healthcare General To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a tax credit for offering employer-based health insurance coverage and to provide for the establishment of health insurance purchasing pools. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT   PDF  
S. 1503 Healthcare General To reduce healthcare costs, expand access to affordable healthcare  coverage, and improve healthcare and strengthen the healthcare safety net, and for other purposes. - R   TEXT PDF  
S. 2007 Healthcare General To examine the circumstances contributing to the problems facing the health care system of the United States and to develop public and private policies as appropriate to address rising health care costs and the number of uninsured Americans. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT   PDF  
S. 831 Healthcare Policy Finding To provide for the establishment of a Health Workforce Advisory Commission to review Federal health workforce policies and make recommendations on improving those policies. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF High
S. 934 Healthcare Policy Finding To establish an expedited procedure for congressional consideration of health care reform legislation. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT  PDF High
H.R. 1322 Healthcare Protection To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits.   TEXT PDF High
H.R 118 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable tax credit to small businesses for the costs of qualified health insurance. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R 218 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance and prescription drug costs of individuals. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R 2089 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of private health insurance. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R. 37 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for premiums for high deductible health plans required with respect to health savings accounts. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 66 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve health care choice by providing for the tax deductibility of medical expenses by individuals. [Introduced in House]   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 765 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of private health insurance, and to establish State health insurance safety-net programs. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R. 3873 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit rollovers from retirement plans to health savings accounts. [Introduced in House]   TEXT  PDF High
H.R. 4527 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage small business health plans. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
S. 978 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the purchase of qualified health insurance, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R 2176 Healthcare Tax Deductions To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
H.R. 2860 Healthcare/Budget To encourage Members of Congress and the executive branch to be honest with the public about true on-budget circumstances, to exclude the Social Security trust funds and the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund from the annual Federal budget baseline,   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 1302 Lobbying To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require certain coalitions and associations to disclose their lobbying activities. [Introduced in House]   TEXT    PDF  
S. 608 Pension Advocate create an independent office in the Department of Labor to advocate on behalf of pension participants   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 2321 Pension Disclosure To amend titles I and IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve disclosure of the funding status of pension plans.   TEXT PDF  
S. 219 Pension Disclosure Amend IRS code of 1986 & ERISA 1974 Pension asset diversity & adequate access to and information about pension plan   TEXT PDF   
H.R. 2830 Pension Funding To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the pension funding rules, and  for other purposes.   TEXT PDF NRLN
S. 1783 Pension Funding To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the [Placed on Calendar Senate]   TEXT  PDF  
H.R. 1058 Pension General To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that employees are not improperly disqualified from benefits under pension plans and welfare plans based on the misclassification or reclassification of their status. (comment: clarifies employee definition)   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 2233 Pension General To limit the availability of benefits under an employer's nonqualified deferred compensation plans in the event that any of the employer's defined pension plans are subjected to a distress or PBGC termination & increase disclosure S. 991 TEXT PDF  
H.R. 2327 Pension General To impose a 6-month moratorium on terminations of certain plans instituted under section 4042 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 in cases in which reorganization of contributing sponsors is sought in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. S.1158 TEXT PDF  
S. 607 Pension General To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to early retirement benefits, and for other purposes.    TEXT PDF  
S. 685 Pension General To amend title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in the case of airline pilots who are required by regulation to retire at age 60, to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a  life annuity commencing at age 60.   TEXT PDF  
S. 991 Pension General To limit the availability of benefits under an employer's nonqualified deferred compensation plans in the event that any of the employer's defined pension plans are subjected to a distress or PBGC termination & increase disclosure H.R. 2233 TEXT PDF  
S. 1158 Pension General To impose a 6-month moratorium on terminations of certain plans instituted under section 4042 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 in cases in which reorganization of contributing sponsors is sought in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. [Introduced in Senate] H.R.2327 TEXT PDF  
H.R. 2831 Pension Protection  To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements in benefit accrual standards. [Introduced in House]   TEXT   PDF  
S. 1304 Pension Protection To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect pension benefits of employees in defined benefit plans and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to   enforce the age discrimination requirements of the Internal Revenue [Introduced in Senate] (comments; fixes cash balance plan problems.)   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 1162 Pension Tax Funding IRS rule changes to provide for retirement savings accounts, and for other purposes.   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 1960 Pension Tax Funding to expand pension coverage and savings opportunities and to provide other pension reforms including making savers credit permanent. H.R.1961- R TEXT PDF  
H.R. 1961 Pension Tax Funding to expand pension coverage  and savings opportunities and to provide other pension reforms including making savers credit permanent. H.R.1960 - D TEXT PDF  
S. 546 Pension Tax Funding IRS rule changes to provide for retirement savings accounts, and for other purposes.   TEXT PDF  
H.R. 750 Social Security Privatization To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to preserve and strengthen the Social Security program through the creation of personal Social Security guarantee accounts (comments: controversial bill)   TEXT PDF  
S. 14 Wages/Jobs To provide fair wages for America's workers, to create new jobs through  investment in America, to provide for fair trade and competitiveness, and for other purposes.   TEXT PDF  
S. 846 Wages/Jobs To provide fair wages for America's workers. [Placed on Calendar Senate]   TEXT PDF