Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act

Bill: 110-hr-324
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Bankruptcy
Building construction
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Delegation of powers
Department of Labor
Depreciation and amortization
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Federal advisory bodies
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Flexible benefit plans
Franchises (Retail trade)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Income tax
Injunctions
Insurance
Insurance agents
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Law
Licenses
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Minimum wages
Northern Mariana Islands
Professional associations
Restaurants
Small business
Standards
State laws
State taxation
Surety and fidelity
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Taxation
Trade associations
Trusts and trustees
Unemployment insurance
Valuation
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to incrementally increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25.
 
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans (AHPs), which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations, and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements. 
 
Establishes the Association Health Plan Fund to be used by the Secretary of Labor to make payments to an insurer to maintain coverage for a plan, if there is a reasonable expectation that, without such payments, claims would not be satisfied by reason of termination of coverage. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Solvency Standards Working Group.
 
Allows a state to impose a contribution tax on an association health plan, if the plan commenced operations in such state after the date of enactment of this Act. 
 
Preempts any state law that may preclude a health insurance issuer from: (1) offering health insurance coverage in connection with a certified AHP; or (2) offering health insurance coverage of the same policy type to other employers operating in the state which are eligible for coverage under such AHPs, whether or not such other employers are participating employers in such plan.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the increased expensing allowance for small business assets. Revises the definition of &quot;qualified restaurant property&quot; to eliminate the requirement that improvements to restaurant property must be placed in service more than three years after the original building is placed in service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in House