Title: Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Common SENSE Act of 2017 or the Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2342 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2342

   To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the 
  Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Public Health Service Act to 
      require employees to be provided with information about the 
   availability of special enrollment periods to obtain marketplace 
coverage and Medicare coverage upon termination or separation, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2017

Mr. Schneider introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the 
  Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Public Health Service Act to 
      require employees to be provided with information about the 
   availability of special enrollment periods to obtain marketplace 
coverage and Medicare coverage upon termination or separation, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Common SENSE Act of 2017'' and as 
the ``Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING NOTIFICATION TO EMPLOYEES ABOUT SPECIAL ENROLLMENT 
              PERIODS UPON TERMINATION OR SEPARATION.

    (a) ERISA.--Section 606(a) of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1166(a)) is amended by adding ``and 
under section 2702 of the Public Health Service Act (including that the 
beneficiary may be eligible to enroll in a health plan in a State in a 
special enrollment period established under subsection (b)(2) of such 
section) and section 1837(i) of the Social Security Act (including that 
the beneficiary may be eligible to enroll in the medical insurance 
program established under part B of title XVIII of such Act in a 
special enrollment period established under such section)'' before the 
period at the end.
    (b) IRC.--Section 4980B(f)(6)(D)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 is amended by adding ``and under section 2702 of the Public 
Health Service Act (including that the beneficiary may be eligible to 
enroll in a health plan in a State in a special enrollment period 
established under subsection (b)(2) of such section) and section 
1837(i) of the Social Security Act (including that the beneficiary may 
be eligible to enroll in the medical insurance program established 
under part B of title XVIII of such Act in a special enrollment period 
established under such section)'' before the period at the end.
    (c) PHSA.--Section 2206 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300bb-6) is amended in the first sentence by inserting ``and under 
section 2702 of the Public Health Service Act (including that the 
beneficiary may be eligible to enroll in a health plan in a State in a 
special enrollment period established under subsection (b)(2) of such 
section) and section 1837(i) of the Social Security Act (including that 
the beneficiary may be eligible to enroll in the medical insurance 
program established under part B of title XVIII of such Act in a 
special enrollment period established under such section)'' before the 
period at the end of such sentence.
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