Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2002
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 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
Small business
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax credits
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small employers (employers with between two and 50 employees) a business tax credit for payment of employee health insurance costs; (2) allow private foundations to make grants to a qualified health benefit purchasing coalition. Defines &quot;qualified health benefit purchasing coalition&quot; as a private non-profit corporation which sells health insurance to employers through State licensed health insurance issuers.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award demonstration grants to States to develop innovative ways to increase access to health insurance through market reforms and other means; and (2) the Small Business Administration (SBA) to award grants to States, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to provide information to small employers about the benefits of health insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-04-28
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: 2005-04-28
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: 2005-04-28
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: 2005-04-28
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: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in House