Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2342
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2017-05-03
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4379)

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Common SENSE Act of 2017 or the Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017</b></p> This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to expand notification requirements for health plans regarding beneficiaries who would lose coverage if not for continuation coverage (e.g., due to job termination) to include providing notice of: (1) guaranteed availability of coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including special enrollment periods; and (2) special enrollment periods for Medicare.

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2342 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 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.

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 . 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.