Insurance Industry And Regulation

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US Congress 113th Congress

Patients' Right to Know Act of 2013 [S.764] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ] [Insurance ] [Consumer Protection ]
Patients Right to Know Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require health plans to disclose in writing to consumers: (1) the annual fee on health insurance providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (2) the annual fees imposed on health insurance policies, (3) required contributions by health plans to the reinsurance program, (4) user fees on health plans participating in health insurance exchanges, (5) payments by health plans whose costs are lower than the target amount (premiums collected minus administrative (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John Cornyn Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S2799-2800) on 04/18/2013

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Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act [S.685] [Finance ] [Budget and Spending ] [Taxes ] [Insurance ] [Economic Development ]
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) submit to Congress, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, a list of all commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies that the Secretary believes are too big to fail ("Too Big To Fail List"), including, but not limited to, any U.S. bank holding companies identified by the Financial Stability Board as systemically important banks; and (2) break up entities on the list so that their failure would no longer cause a catastrophic effect (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. on 04/09/2013

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Access to Independent Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2013 [S.650] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
Access to Independent Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to exclude remuneration paid for licensed independent insurance producers from administrative cost calculations for purposes of calculating the medical-loss ratio of a health insurance plan. Defines "independent insurance producer" to mean an insurance agent or broker, insurance consultant, benefit specialist, limited insurance representative, and any other person required to be licensed under the laws of the particular state to sell, solicit, negotiate, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Enzi Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/21/2013

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Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act [S.627] [Healthcare ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Science ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Insurance ]
Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act - Denies any person the exclusive right to manufacture, distribute, sell, or use in interstate commerce a drug, a biological product, or a drug or biological product manufacturing process, including the exclusive right to rely on health registration data or the 30-month stay-of-effectiveness period for Orange Book patents. Prescribes remuneration, in the form of prize payments from a Fund for Medical Innovation Prizes, in lieu of such market exclusivity. Establishes: (1) the Fund for Medical Innovation Prizes; and (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/20/2013

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Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS Act [S.626] [Healthcare ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Insurance ]
Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS Act - Denies any person the exclusive right to manufacture, distribute, sell, or use in interstate commerce a qualifying treatment for HIV/AIDS, or to a manufacturing process for such a treatment, including the exclusive right to rely on health registration data or the 30-month stay-of-effectiveness period for Orange Book patents. Prescribes remuneration, in the form of prize payments from a Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS, in lieu of such market exclusivity. Exempts from this elimination of exclusive rights any dual use product (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/20/2013

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Jobs and Premium Protection Act [S.603] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Jobs and Premium Protection Act - Repeals a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that imposes an annual fee on each entity that provides health insurance for any U.S. health risk based on net premium income.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/19/2013

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National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 [S.534] [Insurance ] [Finance ] [Consumer Protection ] [Small Business ]
National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to repeal the contingent conditions under which the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) shall not be established. Establishes the NARAB without contingent conditions as an independent nonprofit corporation to prescribe, on a multi-state basis, licensing and insurance producer qualification requirements and conditions. Prohibits NARAB from merging with or into any other private or public entity. Requires (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. Reported By Senator Johnson Sd, With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. With Written Report No. 113-82. on 07/29/2013

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Captive Insurers Clarification Act [S.2726] [Insurance ] [Taxes ] [Small Business ]
Captive Insurers Clarification Act - Amends the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 to define "captive insurance company" as an insurance company wholly owned directly or indirectly: (1) by a single parent company and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of that single parent company or its affiliates; (2) by a group of companies and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of that group or its affiliates; and (3) by an industry, trade, or service group or association, and whose primary purpose is to insure the risks of any (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Patrick Leahy Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S5222) on 07/31/2014

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Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014 [S.2672] [International ] [National Security ] [Trade ] [Defense ]
Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014 or the SISA Act - Amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, and the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 to eliminate authority to waive sanctions relating to: transportation of crude oil from Iran; financial institutions that engage in certain transactions; the financial sector of Iran; persons (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ted Cruz Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. on 07/28/2014

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Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act of 2014 [S.2381] [Insurance ] [Disaster Relief ]
Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act of 2014 - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to redefine "private flood insurance" to include a policy issued an insurance company that is eligible as a nonadmitted insurer to provide insurance in the state or jurisdiction where the property to be insured is located.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jon Tester Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. on 05/22/2014

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Stop Schemes and Crimes Against Medicare and Seniors (Stop SCAMS) Act [S.2361] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Healthcare ] [Senior Citizens ] [Social Security ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Small Business ] [Criminal Justice ]
Stop Schemes and Crimes Against Medicare and Seniors (Stop SCAMS) Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act with respect to standards for financial and administrative transactions and their data elements to enable the electronic exchange of health information. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt standards that: (1) ensure that any entity producing and transmitting valid transactions that include code sets for appropriate data elements is subject to a consistent, industry-wide framework that supports a seamless (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S3190) on 05/20/2014

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Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 [S.2270] [Insurance ] [Finance ]
Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) concerning establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. States that federal banking agencies shall not be required to subject any person to such minimum capital requirements, to the extent that such person either: (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins Became Public Law No: 113-279. on 12/18/2014

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Health Care Fairness and Stability Act [S.2253] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
Health Care Fairness and Stability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide a temporary shift in the scheduled collection of payments for the transitional reinsurance program intended to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual health insurance markets from 2014 through 2016. Amends PPACA to delay the collection of reinsurance payments from health insurance issuers and third party administrators of certain self-insured group health plans until January 1, 2018. Amends PPACA to change the formula (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/10/2014

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Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014 [S.2244] [Insurance ] [National Security ] [Small Business ] [Cybersecurity ] [Finance ]
Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Title I: Extension of Terrorism Insurance Program - (Sec. 101) Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program through December 31, 2020, and to revise requirements for the Program. (Sec. 102) Requires the federal share of payments beginning on January 1, 2016, for acts of terrorism, in general, to be reduced annually to 80% of insured losses. (Sec. 103) Specifies the aggregate industry insured losses resulting from certified acts of terror (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Reed Message On House Action Received In Senate And At Desk: House Amendment To Senate Bill. on 12/11/2014

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Enhancing Access for Agents and Brokers Act [S.2175] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ] [Consumer Protection ] [Medicare and Medicaid ]
Enhancing Access for Agents and Brokers Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a toll-free customer service support help line to enable certified health insurance agents and brokers to seek assistance regarding qualified health plans offered in the federal health insurance marketplace. Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary to establish procedures to permit a broker name and National Producer Number to be added to an application for enrollment in a health plan offered through (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Warner Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/27/2014

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Commonsense Competition and Access to Health Insurance Act [S.2174] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ]
Commonsense Competition and Access to Health Insurance Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to permit two or more states to enter into an agreement under which one or more qualified health plans could be offered in small group markets, as well as in the individual markets (as under current law), in all such states. Directs the Secretary, by December 31, 2014, to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to report on health plans provided for under PPACA. Allows the Secretary also to request (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/27/2014

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A bill to clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. [S.2102] [Finance ] [Insurance ] [Consumer Protection ]
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with respect to establishment of minimum leverage and minimum risk-based capital requirements on a consolidated basis for a depository institution holding company or a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Declares that the appropriate federal banking agencies shall not be required to subject to such minimum requirements any person, to the extent that person acts in its capacity as a regulated insurance entity, if it is regulated (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Subcommittee On Financial Institutions And Consumer Protection. Hearings Held. on 03/11/2014

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Data Security Act of 2014 [S.1927] [Cybersecurity ] [Data Privacy ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Consumer Protection ] [Finance ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Data Security Act of 2014 - Prescribes security procedures which an entity that maintains or communicates sensitive account or personal information must implement and enforce in order to protect the information from an unauthorized use likely to result in substantial harm or inconvenience to the consumer. Grants exclusive enforcement powers to specified federal regulatory agencies with oversight of financial institutions. Denies a private right of action, including a class action, regarding any act or practice regulated under this Act. Prohibits (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Carper Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Subcommittee On National Security And International Trade And Finance. Hearings Held. on 02/03/2014

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A bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and to reform the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, and for other purposes. [S.1926] [Insurance ] [Housing ] [Real Estate ] [Consumer Protection ] [Finance ] [Small Business ]
Title I: Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act - Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 - (Sec. 103) Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from implementing during a specified six-month period a requirement of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (NFIA) that would: (1) increase flood insurance risk premium rates to reflect the current risk of flood for property located in specified areas subject to a certain mandatory premium adjustment, or (2) a prohibition against extending subsidies (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Held At The Desk. on 01/31/2014

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Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 [S.1881] [International ] [National Security ] [Trade ] [Defense ] [Energy ] [Finance ]
Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Iran must not be allowed to develop or maintain nuclear weapon capabilities; (2) Iran does not have an inherent right to enrichment and reprocessing capabilities under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (3) the imposition of sanctions under this Act is triggered by Iran's violations of any interim or final agreement regarding its nuclear program; (4) if Israel takes military action in self-defense against Iran's nuclear weapons program the United (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Introduced In The Senate. Read The First Time. Placed On Senate Legislative Calendar Under Read The First Time. on 12/20/2013

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