Small Business Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4356
Sponsor: Rep. Sandlin, Max [D-TX-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Self-employed
Small business
State laws
Tax credits
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: 
Small Business Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small employers (not more than 50 employees) a business tax credit equal to 50 percent of amounts paid by such employers for the health care coverage of their employees under a qualified health pooling arrangement. Limits the period during which the tax credit may be taken to four years from the date the employer begins participating in a qualified health pooling arrangement. Defines &quot;qualified health pooling arrangement&quot; as a national or state arrangement that provides health benefits coverage substantially similar to that of the four largest health benefit plans offered to Federal employees.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor to provide for the offering and oversight of qualified State and national health pooling arrangements and to conduct a study, through the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, of the operation of such arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E843)
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Introduced in House