I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4222 
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and title XXII of the Public Health 
Service Act to extend COBRA benefits for certain TAA-eligible individ-
uals and PBGC recipients. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2007 
Mr. FORTENBERRY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees 
on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Secu-
rity Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
and title XXII of the Public Health Service Act to extend 
COBRA benefits for certain TAA-eligible individuals and 
PBGC recipients. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF COBRA BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN 
TAA-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND PBGC RE-
CIPIENTS. 
(a) ERISA AMENDMENTS.—Section 602(2)(A) of the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 
U.S.C. 1162(2)(A)) is amended— 
(1) by moving clause (v) to after clause (iv) and 
before the flush left sentence beginning with ‘‘In the 
case of a qualified beneficiary’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘In the case of a qualified bene-
ficiary’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(vi) 
SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
DIS-
ABILITY.—In the case of a qualified bene-
ficiary’’; and 
(3) by redesignating clauses (v) and (vi), as 
amended by paragraphs (1) and (2), as clauses (viii) 
and (ix) and by inserting after clause (iv) the fol-
lowing new clauses: 
‘‘(v) SPECIAL RULE FOR PBGC RECIPI-
ENTS.—In the case of a qualifying event 
described in section 603(2) with respect to 
a covered employee who (as of such quali-
fying event) has a nonforfeitable right to a 
benefit any portion of which is to be paid 
by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora-
tion under title IV, notwithstanding clause 
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(i) or (ii), the date of the death of the cov-
ered employee, or in the case of the sur-
viving spouse or dependent children of the 
covered employee, 36 months after the 
date of the death of the covered employee. 
‘‘(vi) SPECIAL RULE FOR TAA-ELIGI-
BLE INDIVIDUALS.—In the case of a quali-
fying event described in section 603(2) 
with respect to a covered employee who is 
(as of the date that the period of coverage 
would, but for this clause or clause (vii), 
otherwise terminate under clause (i) or 
(ii)) a TAA-eligible individual (as defined 
in section 605(b)(4)(B)), the period of cov-
erage shall not terminate by reason of 
clause (i) or (ii), as the case may be, be-
fore the later of the date specified in such 
clause or the date on which such individual 
ceases to be such a TAA-eligible individual. 
‘‘(vii) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
CERTAIN 
TAA-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.—In the case 
of a qualifying event described in section 
603(2) with respect to a covered employee 
who is (as of the date that the period of 
coverage would, but for this clause or 
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