S1847-119

In Committee

Association Health Plans Act

119th Congress Introduced May 21, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Association Health Plans Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Healthcare, Finance.

Who Benefits and How

workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section H902B4F046F5040998813B568B22C5961: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Association Health Plans Act.
  • Section H7DE2C9EACE9340A89E30AE5EACC67C1E: 2. Treatment of group or association of employers Section 3(5) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1002(5)) is amended— by...
  • Section H130D8C94F82C41A190A6A0A490983B31: 3. Rules applicable to employee welfare benefit plans established and maintained by a group or association of employers Part 7 of subtitle B of title I of the...
  • Section H442D57CEFB49434B86930EC37AD414D4: 736. Rules applicable to employee welfare benefit plans established and maintained by a group or association of employers In the case of an employee welfare...
  • Section H1EE90FC13AE54E23B0A616245F7A6C94: 4. Rule of construction Nothing in this Act shall be construed to exempt a group health plan which is an employee welfare benefit plan offered through a group...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Association Health Plans Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Key Policy Areas

Labor, Healthcare, Finance

Primary Purpose

This bill, Association Health Plans Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Policy Domains

Labor Healthcare Finance

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
May 21, 2025

Mr. Paul (for himself and Mr. Wicker) introduced the following …

May 21, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …

May 21, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Labor Healthcare Finance
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"self-employed individual" §H7DE2C9EACE9340A89E30AE5EACC67C1E

an individual who—(I)does not have any common law employees

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