Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1937
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Cooperative societies
Corporations
Cost of living adjustments
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Excise tax
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of care
Reinsurance
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow for the deduction of 100 percent of the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals; (2) allow, for small employers, a limited credit for the expenses of employee health insurance coverage provided under a new health plan; and (3) provide for non-profit qualified health benefit purchasing coalitions.
Directs the: (1) Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a State grant program to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative ways to increase health insurance access through market reforms and other innovations; and (2) Small Business Administration to award grants to facilitate health benefits information for small businesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House