Preexisting Condition Exclusion Patient Protection Act of 2007

To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional limitations on preexisting condition exclusions in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets.

6/22/2007--Introduced.
Preexisting Condition Exclusion Patient Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to allow a group health plan to impose a preexisting condition exclusion only if:
(1) such exclusion relates to a condition for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received within the 30-day period ending on the enrollment date; and
(2) such exclusion extends not more than three months, or nine months for a late enrollee, after the enrollment date.
Applies such requirement to coverage offered in the individual market. Allows an issuer of individual health insurance coverage to impose a preexisting condition exclusion for a period of not more than three months under certain circumstances.
Revises provisions that prohibit health insurance issuers that offer health insurance coverage in the individual market from declining to offer coverage or imposing any preexisting condition exclusion on coverage to an eligible individual to remove eligibility requirements that require an individual to have:
(1) elected COBRA continuation coverage, if it was offered; and
(2) exhausted such continuation coverage, if elected.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2]
• and 45 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Howard Berman [D, CA-28]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. Russ Carnahan [D, MO-3]
  • Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11]
  • Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D, MO-5]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
  • Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
  • Rep. Joe Donnelly [D, IN-2]
  • Rep. Rahm Emanuel [D, IL-5]
  • Rep. Barney Frank [D, MA-4]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
  • Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D, RI-1]
  • Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
  • Rep. Barbara Lee [D, CA-9]
  • Rep. David Loebsack [D, IA-2]
  • Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D, NY-4]
  • Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4]
  • Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. Christopher Murphy [D, CT-5]
  • Rep. Grace Napolitano [D, CA-38]
  • Rep. Linda Sanchez [D, CA-39]
  • Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D, PA-13]
  • Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
  • Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D, NH-1]
  • Rep. Hilda Solis [D, CA-32]
  • Rep. Betty Sutton [D, OH-13]
  • Rep. John Tierney [D, MA-6]
  • Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
  • Rep. David Wu [D, OR-1]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 5 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2833

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 22, 2007

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• Mar 20, 2008: Committee Hearings Held.
• Sep 11, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jul 16, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 22, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jun 22, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jun 22, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 22, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jun 22, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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.
• Introduced on Jun 22, 2007.

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• S.2236

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• Labor
• Health insurance continuation
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• Employee health benefits
• Discrimination in medical care
• Discrimination in insurance
• Civil rights
• Health policy

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March 20, 2008 Congressional Hearing in Hartford on HIPAA

US Congressman Joe Courtney will hold a Congressional meeting at the Legislative Office Building here in Hartford today at 2:30 pm to hear testimony regarding HR 2833, Preexisting Condition Exclusion Patient Protection Act of 2007. ...

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