ISSUE
Bill Number / Name / Sponsor H.R. 1367: FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act / Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-MA Cosponsors: 3 (D)
Health Care
H.R. 1780: To provide that the only health plans available to the president, vice president, members of Congress and federal employees are those created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or offered through a health insurance exchange / Rep. Dave Camp, R-MI
What Bill Would Do
Latest Action(s)
Provides the Office of Personnel Management greater oversight authority over the prescription drug contracting and pricing methods of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). It requires that pharmacy benefit managers return 99 percent of all rebates, market share incentives and other monies received from pharmaceutical manufacturers for FEHBP business and caps prescription drug prices.
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Removes federal employees from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and places them in the health exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act.
Referred to the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Energy and Commerce, and Administration
narfe, June 2013, p. 9
narfe, July 2013, p. 15
Cosponsors: 30 (R) H.R. 3319: Equal Healthcare Access Act / Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA Cosponsors: 1 (D), 8 (R)
Requires the Office of Personnel Management to administer a health insurance plan for nonfederal employees under the existing Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Referred to House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means narfe, January 2014, p. 9
H.R. 1795: Social Security Fairness Act of 2013 / Rep. Rodney Davis, R-IL GPO/WEP
FEDERAL PENSIONS
Cosponsors: 79 (D), 30 (R)
Repeals both the Government Referred to the Pension Offset (GPO) and the House Committee on Windfall Elimination Provision Ways and Means (WEP).
S. 896: Social Security Fairness Act of 2013 / Sen. Mark Begich, D-AK
Referred to the Senate Finance Committee
Cosponsors: 13 (D), 3 (R), 1 (I)
narfe, July 2013, p. 16
S. 1678: Public-Private EmEliminates the defined-benefit ployee Retirement Parity Act portion of the Federal Em/ Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC ployees Retirement System (FERS), leaving only Social Cosponsors: 2 (R) Security and the Thrift Savings Plan for FERS employees in retirement.
Referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs narfe, February 2014, p. 8
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