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Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007
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2008 · fourth_quarter · Health Issues
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S.3: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 S.158: Access to Affordable Health Care Act S. 273: Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2007 S. 290: Rural Physicians Relief Act of 2007 S. 334: Healthy Americans Act S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S. 498: Rural Medicare Equity Act of 2007 S. 1342: HeLP America Act S. 1605: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2007 S. 1710: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 S. 2785: Save Medicare Act of 2008 S. 2603: Medicare Fraud Prevention Act of 2008 S. 2687: Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008 S. 2786: Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2008 H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 H.R.15: National Health Insurance Act H.R.118: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. H.R.205: Medicare Prescription Drug Enrollment Extension Act of 2007 H.R.298: Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 HR 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R. 1651: Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission Act of 2007 HR 2056: Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 HR 2633: HeLP America Act (Introduced in House) HR 2860: Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007 HR 3014: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 H.R. 3043: Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2008 HR 3163: Healthy Americans HR 4848: To extend for one year parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits, and for other purposes HR 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 HR 5445: To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase Medicare payments for physicians' services through December 31, 2009. H.R. 6143: Pension Protection Act ERISA Amendments of 2008 H.R. 6382: Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008 H.R. 7242: Pension Protection Act IRC Amendments of 2008
Client expense: $2,095,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2008 · fourth_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R.3221: A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections.H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. H.R.6049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. H.R.6275: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide individuals temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax, and for other purposes. H. R. 6499: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. H.R.6899: To advance the national security interests of the United States by reducing its dependency on oil through renewable and clean, alternative fuel technologies while building a bridge to the future through expanded access to Federal oil and natural gas resources, revising the relationship between the oil and gas industry and the consumers who own those resources and deserve a fair return from the development of publicly owned oil and gas, ending tax subsidies for large oil and gas companies, and facilitating energy efficiencies in the building, housing, and transportation sectors, and for other purposes. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S.2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S.2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts. S.3049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. S.3125: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3278: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that no loan may be made from a qualified employer plan using a credit card or other intermediary and to limit the number of loans that may be made from a qualified employer plan to a participant or beneficiary. S.3284: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the estate tax as in effect in 2009, and for other purposes. S.3335: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3557: to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts. S. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow reimbursement from flexible spending accounts for certain dental products.
Client expense: $515,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2008 · third_quarter · Health Issues
Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 - H.R. 298 The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2008 H.R. 758 Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2007 - H.R. 1322 Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act 0f 2007 - H.R. 1424 Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act - H.R. 1820 Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007 - H.R. 1956 Promoting Health for Future Generations Act - H.R. 2639 Michelles Law H.R. 2851 Childrens Health and Medicare Act of 2007 - H.R. 3162 Healthy Americans Act - H.R. 3163 HSA Improvement and Expansion Act - H.R. 3234 Flexible Health Savings Act - H.R. 3306 Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 - H.R. 3363 Employment Non-Discrimination Act - H.R. 3685 Promoting Health Information Technology Act H.R. 3800 Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007/Heroes Earnings Assistance and Tax Relief Act of 2007-title as passed - H.R. 3997 Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection (E-Meds) H.R. 4848 Mental Health Parity Extension Legislation - H.R. 4848 Technologies for Restoring Users Security and Trust in (TRUST) in Health Information Act of 2008 - H.R. 5442 Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act H.R. 5719 Promoting Health Information Technology Act of 2008 H.R. 6179 Retiree Health Account Act of 2008 H.R. 6288 Pension Protection Act ERISA Amendments H.R. 6143 ERISA Amendments HR 6142 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 H.R. 6331 Patient-Controlled Health IT Act H.R. 6345 Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication Through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 The Pro (TECH) T Act of 2008 - H.R. 6357 Health Insurance Source of Injury Clarification Act of 2008 H.R. 6908 Health-e Information Technology Act of 2008 H.R. 6898 Senate Health Partnership Act - S. 325 Healthy Americans Act - S. 334 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - 358 Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 - S. 558 Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act - S. 623 Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act - S. 1019 State-based Health Care Reform Act - S. 1169 Medicare Quality Enhancement Act - S. 1544 Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Beneficiaries Act - S. 1556 Wired for Health Care Quality Act - S. 1693 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act - S. 1695 Healthy Workforce Act - S. 1753 Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (the CLASS Act) - S. 1758 Childrens Health Insurance Reauthorization Act - S. 1893 Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 - S. 2337 Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 - S. 2499 Medicare Funding Warning Response Act of 2008 - S. 2662 Disability Savings Act - S. 2741 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 - S. 3101 Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 S. 3118 Comparative Effectiveness Research Act S. 3408
Client expense: $246,723 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
2008 · third_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R.3221: A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections.H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. H.R.6049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. H.R.6275: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide individuals temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax, and for other purposes. H. R. 6499: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. H.R.6899: To advance the national security interests of the United States by reducing its dependency on oil through renewable and clean, alternative fuel technologies while building a bridge to the future through expanded access to Federal oil and natural gas resources, revising the relationship between the oil and gas industry and the consumers who own those resources and deserve a fair return from the development of publicly owned oil and gas, ending tax subsidies for large oil and gas companies, and facilitating energy efficiencies in the building, housing, and transportation sectors, and for other purposes. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S.2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S.2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts. S.3049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. S.3125: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3278: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that no loan may be made from a qualified employer plan using a credit card or other intermediary and to limit the number of loans that may be made from a qualified employer plan to a participant or beneficiary. S.3284: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the estate tax as in effect in 2009, and for other purposes. S.3335: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3557: to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts.
Client expense: $470,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2008 · third_quarter · Health Issues
S.3: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 S.158: Access to Affordable Health Care Act S. 273: Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2007 S. 290: Rural Physicians Relief Act of 2007 S. 334: Healthy Americans Act S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S. 498: Rural Medicare Equity Act of 2007 S. 1342: HeLP America Act S. 1605: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2007 S. 1710: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 S. 2785: Save Medicare Act of 2008 S. 2603: Medicare Fraud Prevention Act of 2008 S. 2687: Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008 S. 2786: Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2008 H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 H.R.15: National Health Insurance Act H.R.118: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. H.R.205: Medicare Prescription Drug Enrollment Extension Act of 2007 H.R.298: Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 HR 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R. 1651: Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission Act of 2007 HR 2056: Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 HR 2633: HeLP America Act (Introduced in House) HR 2860: Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007 HR 3014: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 H.R. 3043: Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2008 HR 3163: Healthy Americans HR 4848: To extend for one year parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits, and for other purposes HR 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 HR 5445: To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase Medicare payments for physicians' services through December 31, 2009. H.R. 6143: Pension Protection Act ERISA Amendments of 2008 H.R. 6382: Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008 H.R. 7242: Pension Protection Act IRC Amendments of 2008
Client expense: $1,113,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2008 · second_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections. H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S. 2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S. 2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts. S.3049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. S.3125: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
2008 · second_quarter · Health Issues
S.3: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 S.158: Access to Affordable Health Care Act S. 273: Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2007 S. 290: Rural Physicians Relief Act of 2007 S. 334: Healthy Americans Act S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S. 498: Rural Medicare Equity Act of 2007 S. 1342: HeLP America Act S. 1605: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2007 S. 1710: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 S. 2785: Save Medicare Act of 2008 S. 2603: Medicare Fraud Prevention Act of 2008 S. 2687: Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008 S. 2786: Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2008 H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 H.R.15: National Health Insurance Act H.R.118: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. H.R.205: Medicare Prescription Drug Enrollment Extension Act of 2007 H.R.298: Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 HR 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R. 1651: Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission Act of 2007 HR 2056: Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 HR 2633: HeLP America Act (Introduced in House) HR 2860: Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007 HR 3014: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 H.R. 3043: Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2008 HR 3163: Healthy Americans HR 4848: To extend for one year parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits, and for other purposes HR 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 HR 5445: To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase Medicare payments for physicians' services through December 31, 2009.
2008 · second_quarter · Health Issues
Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 - H.R. 298 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - H.R. 493 Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2007 - H.R. 1322 Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act 0f 2007 - H.R. 1424 Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act - H.R. 1820 Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007 - H.R. 1956 Promoting Health for Future Generations Act - H.R. 2639 Childrens Health and Medicare Act of 2007 - H.R. 3162 Healthy Americans Act - H.R. 3163 HSA Improvement and Expansion Act - H.R. 3234 Flexible Health Savings Act - H.R. 3306 Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 - H.R. 3363 Employment Non-Discrimination Act - H.R. 3685 Promoting Health Information Technology Act H.R. 3800 Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007/Heroes Earnings Assistance and Tax Relief Act of 2007-title as passed - H.R. 3997 Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection (E-Meds) H.R. 4848 Mental Health Parity Extension Legislation - H.R. 4848 Technologies for Restoring Users Security and Trust in (TRUST) in Health Information Act of 2008 - H.R. 5442 Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act H.R. 5719 Promoting Health Information Technology Act of 2008 H.R. 6179 Retiree Health Account Act of 2008 H.R. 6288 Pension Protection Act ERISA Amendments H.R. 6143 ERISA Amendments HR 6142 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 H.R. 6331 Patient-Controlled Health IT Act H.R. 6345 Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication Through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 The Pro (TECH) T Act of 2008 - H.R. 6357 Health Partnership Act - S. 325 Healthy Americans Act - S. 334 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - 358 Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 - S. 558 Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act - S. 623 Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act - S. 1019 State-based Health Care Reform Act - S. 1169 Medicare Quality Enhancement Act - S. 1544 Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Beneficiaries Act - S. 1556 Wired for Health Care Quality Act - S. 1693 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act - S. 1695 Healthy Workforce Act - S. 1753 Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (the CLASS Act) - S. 1758 Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act - S. 1893 Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 - S. 2337 Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 - S. 2499 Medicare Funding Warning Response Act of 2008 - S. 2662 Disability Savings Act - S. 2741 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 - S. 3101 Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 - S. 3118 Regulatory - communication with covered federal officials on legislative issues: White House, Executive Office of the President - mental health parity (H.R. 1424/S. 558) & Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) (H.R 5719) Department of Labor (DOL) mental health parity (H.R. 1424/S. 558)
2008 · second_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections. H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S. 2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S. 2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts. S.3049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. S.3125: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
2008 · first_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections. H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S. 2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S. 2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts.
2008 · first_quarter · Health Issues
S.3: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 S.158: Access to Affordable Health Care Act S. 273: Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2007 S. 290: Rural Physicians Relief Act of 2007 S. 334: Healthy Americans Act S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S. 498: Rural Medicare Equity Act of 2007 S. 1342: HeLP America Act S. 1605: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2007 S. 1710: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 S. 2785: Save Medicare Act of 2008 S. 2603: Medicare Fraud Prevention Act of 2008 S. 2687: Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008 S. 2786: Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2008 H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 H.R.15: National Health Insurance Act H.R.118: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. H.R.205: Medicare Prescription Drug Enrollment Extension Act of 2007 H.R.298: Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 HR 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R. 1651: Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission Act of 2007 HR 2056: Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 HR 2633: HeLP America Act (Introduced in House) HR 2860: Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007 HR 3014: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 H.R. 3043: Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2008 HR 3163: Healthy Americans HR 4848: To extend for one year parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits, and for other purposes HR 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 HR 5445: To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase Medicare payments for physicians' services through December 31, 2009.
2008 · first_quarter · Health Issues
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act (H.R. 4) National Health Insurance Act (H.R. 15) Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 (H.R. 298) Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 493) Health Partnership through Creative Federalism Act (H.R. 506) Childrens Health Insurance (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 (H.R. 976) Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (H.R. 1038) Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2007 (H.R. 1322) Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act 0f 2007 (H.R. 1424) Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act (H.R. 1820) Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007 (H.R. 1956) Promoting Health for Future Generations Act (H.R. 2639) Childrens Health and Medicare Act of 2007 (H.R. 3162) Healthy Americans Act (H.R. 3163) HSA Improvement and Expansion Act (H.R. 3234) Flexible Health Savings Act (H.R. 3306) Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 (H.R. 3363) Medicare Quality Enhancement Act (H.R. 3370) Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3685) Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act (H. R. 3796) Trade and Globalization Assistance Act (H.R. 3920) Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007/Heroes Earnings Assistance and Tax Relief Act of 2007-title as passed (H.R. 3997) Mental Health Parity Extension Legislation (H.R. 4848) Technologies for Restoring Users Security and Trust in (TRUST) in Health Information Act of 2008 (H.R. 5442) Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extensions Act of 2007 Medicare Funding Warning Response Act of 2008 (H.R. 5480) Senate Medicare Prescription Drug Negotiation Act of 2007 (S. 3) Health Partnership Act (S. 325) Healthy Americans Act (S. 334) Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (S. 358) Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 (S. 558) Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (S. 623) Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act (S. 1019) State-based Health Care Reform Act (S. 1169) Medicare Quality Enhancement Act (S. 1544) Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Beneficiaries Act (S. 1556) Wired for Health Care Quality Act (S. 1693) Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (S. 1695) Healthy Workforce Act (S. 1753) Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (the CLASS Act) (S. 1758) Ten Steps to Transform Health Care in America Act (S. 1783) Healthy Tax Reform Act (S. 1875) Childrens Health Insurance Reauthorization Act (S. 1893) Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 (S. 2337) Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (S. 2499) Medicare Funding Warning Response Act of 2008 (S. 2662) Disability Savings Act (S. 2741) Regulatory communication with covered federal officials on legislative issues. HHS value-driven health care and health information technology (S. 1693), Medicare funding (H.R. 5480/S. 2662) DOL ERISA case - employer health spending requirements mandate in San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance White House mental health parity (H.R. 1424/S. 558)
2008 · first_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections. H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S. 2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S. 2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts.
2007 · mid_year · Health Issues
See attached list S.2300, Lower PRICED Drugs Act S.1893/H.R.976, Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 S.358, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act S.910, Healthy Families Act S.885, Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 S.628, Critical Access to Health Information Technology Correction Act S.558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 S.495, Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007 S.400, Michelles Law S.397, Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S.3585, HSA Improvement and Expansion Ac of 2006 S.358, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 S.3488, Tax-free Healthcare Savings, Access, and Portability Act S.334, Healthy Americans Act S.325/H.R. 506, Health Partnership Act of 2007 S.273, Prescription Drug Health Improvement Act of 2007 S.2601/H.R.4551, Health Care Choices for Seniors Act S.2549, Health Savings Account Affordability Act S.1753, Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 S.1739, TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2007 S.1693, Wired for Health Care Quality Act S.1690, Small Business Health Insurance Options Act of 2007 S.158, Access to Affordable Health Care Act S.1576, Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act of 2007 S.1556, Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Plan Beneficiaries Act S.1507, Access to Medicare Data Act of 2007 S.1503, Healthy America Act of 2005 S.1455, National Health Information Technology and Privacy Advancement Act of 2007 S.1408, Health Information Technology Act of 2007 S.1342, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act S.1224, Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 S.1223.IS, Information Technology for Health Care Quality Act S.1221, Countdown to Coverage Act of 2007 S.1178, Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act S.1169, State-Based Health Care Reform Act S.1082, Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 S.1067, Healthy Places Act of 2007 S.1050, Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2007 S.1023, A bill to eliminate the remainder of funding shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 2007 S.1022, A bill to eliminate the remainder of funding shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 2007 S.1019, Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act S.099, Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Act S.004, Healthy America Act 2005 S.1218, Medicare for All Act H.R.914, Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R.847, Healthcare Disclosure Act H.R.2737, Health Care Relief Act of 2007 H.R.2639, Promoting Health for Future Generations Act of 2007 H.R.2633, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act H.R.2412, Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 H.R.2351, Health Coverage, Affordability, Responsibility, and Equity (Health CARE) Act of 2007 H.R.2302, Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2007 H.R.227, Health Care Tax deduction Act of 2007 H.R.2184, Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007 H.R.2132, Small Business Health Plans Act of 2007 H.R.2089, Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act H.R.2047, Health Insurance for Life Act of 2007 H.R.1952, National Health Information Act of 2007 H.R.1820, Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2007 H.R.1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act of 2007 H.R.1542, Healthy Families Act H.R.1489, A bill to eliminate the remainder of the funding shortfalls in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal year 2007 H.R.1368, Personalized Health Information Act of 2007 H.R.1367, Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 H.R.1329, Guaranteed Access for SCHIPs Target Population Act of 2007 H.R.1012, Small Business Growth Act of 2007 H.R.015, National Health Insurance Act H.R.4511, Flexible Health Savings Account Act H.R.4505, Health Care Incentive Act H.R.298, Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 H.R.636, HC Freedom of Choice Act H.R. 3162.IH, Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007
2007 · year_end · Health Issues
Regulatory Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Clarification of the Applicability of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) to Employer-Sponsored Health Care Benefits for Retirees Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Proposed Rule on Employee Benefits Cafeteria Plans {REG-142695-05} issued August 3, 3007 Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Proposed Rule on Chartered Value Exchanges, issued May 8, 2007 Treasury/IRS proposed regulations on health, long-term care and disability insurance in a qualified plan [NPRM published August 20, 2007, (72 Fed. Reg. 4621)] Department of Defense (DOD) – TRICARE Amendment – Employer Sponsored Group Health Plans Treasury/IRS proposed rules on Comparable Contributions to HSAs, Accelerated Employer Contributions, NPRM published June 1, 2007 (Fed. Reg. 30501) Treasury/IRS additional HSA guidance, Notice 2007-22, released February 15, 2007 National Health Insurance Act (H.R. 15) Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 (H.R. 298) Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 493) Health Partnership through Creative Federalism Act (H.R. 506) Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 (H.R. 976) Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (H.R. 1038) Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act 0f 2007 (H.R. 1424) Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act (H.R. 1820) Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007 (H.R. 1956) Promoting Health for Future Generations Act (H.R. 2639) Children’s Health and Medicare Act of 2007 (H.R. 3162) Healthy Americans Act (H.R. 3163) HSA Improvement and Expansion Act (H.R. 3234) Flexible Health Savings Act (H.R. 3306) Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 (H.R. 3363) Medicare Quality Enhancement Act (H.R. 3370) Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3685) Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act (H. R. 3796) Trade and Globalization Assistance Act (H.R. 3920) Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007/Heroes Earnings Assistance and Tax Relief Act of 2007-title as passed (H.R. 3997) Senate Medicare Prescription Drug Negotiation Act of 2007 (S. 3) Health Partnership Act (S. 325) Healthy Americans Act (S. 334) Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (S. 358) Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 (S. 558) Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act (S. 623) Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act (S. 1019) State-based Health Care Reform Act (S. 1169) Medicare Quality Enhancement Act (S. 1544) Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Beneficiaries Act (S. 1556) Wired for Health Care Quality Act (S. 1693) Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (S. 1695) Healthy Workforce Act (S. 1753) Ten Steps to Transform Health Care in America Act (S. 1783) Healthy Tax Reform Act (S. 1875) Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act (S. 1893) Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 (S. 2337) Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (S. 2499) Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act (H.R. 4)
2007 · year_end · Health Issues
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity include: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT, (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Torts
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Postal
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Insurance
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Health Issues
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity include: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT, (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Postal
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Insurance
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Torts
HR 298-FSA Rollover; HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans; S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account “Affordability in the Individual Market Act” INS; HR 3234-HSA Expansion “HSA Improvement and Expansion Act-TAX; S 334-Healthy Americans Act -HCR; HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage; HR 2761-TRIA; HR 1198-Reinsurance; S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”; S 558-Mental Health Parity “Mental Health Parity Act” –INS; HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses; HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage “Tax Equity for Individuals Act” -TAX; S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness; HR 1820; S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity; S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement; HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform; HR 976 -Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act” - MMM; HR 3162-SCHIP “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act”-MMM; HR 493 “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” INS; S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination “Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act” -INS; S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007; S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007; S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007; HR 1682; HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007; HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007; HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007; HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007; S 40; HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007; HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act; HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007; HR 1081; S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007; HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007; HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act; S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007; S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007; S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007; S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007; S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act; S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007; HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans; HR 22; S 662-Postal Reform and Insurance Regulation Reform; HR 1368 -Personalized Health Information Act” – HCR; HR 1424 -Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act” –INS; S 1893 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; S 1224 -Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act- MMM; HR 4460 -Health Care Choice Act- INS; S 397 -Tax Equity and Affordability Act- TAX; HR 3306 -Flexible Health Savings Act- TAX; S 1710 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 3043 -Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act- HCR; HR 2764 -Omnibus Appropriations Act- HCR; S 1693 -Wired for Health Care Quality Act- HCR and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · year_end · Health Issues
Health care, employee benefit and LTC insurance reform issues. HR 241, HR 324, HR 1012, S. 555, HR 2047, S. 334, HR 3163, s 1019, s 783, HR 3343, HR 506, HR 749, HR 991, HR 2302, HR 2948, HR 3234, S. 1899, S. 558, HR 2132, S. 158, S 504, HR 46, HR 2582, S. 1809, HR 3088, HR 3363, S 2337S 95, HR 1111, S 397, HR 2626, HR 2737, S. 1875, S 99, S 158, HR 1802, S 1753, HR 227, HR 636, S. 1356, HR 1820, HR 298, HR 3306, HR 15, HR 676, HR 1200, HR 2034, S 1218, HR 2357, S 1758
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2007 · mid_year · Health Issues
H.R.914, Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 H.R.847, Healthcare Disclosure Act H.R.2737, Health Care Relief Act of 2007 H.R.2639, Promoting Health for Future Generations Act of 2007 H.R.2633, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act H.R.2412, Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 H.R.2351, Health Coverage, Affordability, Responsibility, and Equity (Health CARE) Act of 2007 H.R.2302, Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2007 H.R.227, Health Care Tax deduction Act of 2007 H.R.2184, Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007 H.R.2132, Small Business Health Plans Act of 2007 H.R.2089, Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act H.R.2047, Health Insurance for Life Act of 2007 H.R.1952, National Health Information Act of 2007 H.R.1820, Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2007 H.R.1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act of 2007 H.R.1542, Healthy Families Act H.R.1489, A bill to eliminate the remainder of the funding shortfalls in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal year 2007 H.R.1368, Personalized Health Information Act of 2007 H.R.1367, Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 H.R.1329, Guaranteed Access for SCHIP’s Target Population Act of 2007 H.R.1012, Small Business Growth Act of 2007 H.R.015, National Health Insurance Act H.R.4511, Flexible Health Savings Account Act H.R.4505, Health Care Incentive Act H.R.298, Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 H.R.636, HC Freedom of Choice Act S.2300, Lower PRICED Drugs Act S.1893/H.R.976, Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 S.358, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act S.910, Healthy Families Act S.885, Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 S.628, Critical Access to Health Information Technology Correction Act S.558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 S.495, Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007 S.400, Michelle’s Law S.397, Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 S.3585, HSA Improvement and Expansion Ac of 2006 S.358, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 S.3488, Tax-free Healthcare Savings, Access, and Portability Act S.334, Healthy Americans Act S.325/H.R. 506, Health Partnership Act of 2007 S.273, Prescription Drug Health Improvement Act of 2007 S.2601/H.R.4551, Health Care Choices for Seniors Act S.2549, Health Savings Account Affordability Act S.1753, Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 S.1739, TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2007 S.1693, Wired for Health Care Quality Act S.1690, Small Business Health Insurance Options Act of 2007 S.158, Access to Affordable Health Care Act S.1576, Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act of 2007 S.1556, Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Plan Beneficiaries Act S.1507, Access to Medicare Data Act of 2007 S.1503, Healthy America Act of 2005 S.1455, National Health Information Technology and Privacy Advancement Act of 2007 S.1408, Health Information Technology Act of 2007 S.1342, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act S.1224, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 S.1223.IS, Information Technology for Health Care Quality Act S.1221, Countdown to Coverage Act of 2007 S.1178, Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act S.1169, State-Based Health Care Reform Act S.1082, Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 S.1067, Healthy Places Act of 2007 S.1050, Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2007 S.1023, A bill to eliminate the remainder of funding shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 2007 S.1022, A bill to eliminate the remainder of funding shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 2007 S.1019, Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act S.099, Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Act S.004, Healthy America Act 2005 S.1218, Medicare for All Act See attached list
2007 · mid_year · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.46: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small businesses, and for other purposes. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.227: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance and prescription drug costs of individuals. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R.1923: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exemption amount for the alternative minimum tax. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R. 2461: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit distributions from individual retirement plans to be contributed to 529 plans without including the distribution in gross income. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. S.14: to repeal the sunset on certain tax rates and other incentives and to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, and for other purposes. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.55: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S.734: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of the tentative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers to 24 percent. S.1453: to extend the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and for other purposes.
2007 · mid_year · Health Issues
S. 334: Healthy Americans Act - Entire bill S. 397: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 - Entire bill S. 498: Rural Medicare Equity Act of 2007 - Entire bill S. 1342: HeLP America Act - Entire bill S. 1605: Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2007- Entire bill S. 1710: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 - Entire bill H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 - Entire bill H.R.15: National Health Insurance Act - Entire bill H.R.118: To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. - Entire bill H.R.205: Medicare Prescription Drug Enrollment Extension Act of 2007 - Entire bill H.R.298: Flexible Spending Accounts Growth and Opportunities Act of 2007 - Entire bill HR 914: Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 - Entire bill H.R. 1651: Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission Act of 2007 - Entire bill HR 2056: Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 - Entire bill HR 2633: HeLP America Act (Introduced in House) - Entire bill HR 2860: Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007 - Entire bill HR 3014: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 - Entire bill H.R. 3043: Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2008 - Entire bill HR 3163: Healthy Americans Act - Entire bill S. 3 - Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007. - Entire bill S. 158 - Access to Affordable Health Care Act. - Entire bill S. 273 - Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2007. - Entire bill S. 290 - Rural Physicians Relief Act of 2007. - Entire bill
Client expense: $1,950,959 · Firm income: Not reported
2007 · mid_year · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
HR 298-FSA Rollover, HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans, S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account, HR 3234-HSA Expansion, S 334, HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage, HR 2761-TRIA, HR 1198-Reinsurance, S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”, S 558-Mental Health Parity, HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses, HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage, S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness, HR 1820, S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity, S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement, HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform, HR 976, HR 3162-SCHIP, HR 493, S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination, S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007, S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007, S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007, HR 1682, HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007, HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007, S 40, HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007, HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act, HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, HR 1081, S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007, HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007, HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act, S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007, S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007, S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007, S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act, S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans, HR 22, S 662-Postal Reform, and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · mid_year · Torts
HR 298-FSA Rollover, HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans, S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account, HR 3234-HSA Expansion, S 334, HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage, HR 2761-TRIA, HR 1198-Reinsurance, S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”, S 558-Mental Health Parity, HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses, HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage, S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness, HR 1820, S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity, S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement, HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform, HR 976, HR 3162-SCHIP, HR 493, S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination, S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007, S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007, S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007, HR 1682, HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007, HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007, S 40, HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007, HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act, HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, HR 1081, S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007, HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007, HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act, S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007, S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007, S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007, S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act, S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans, HR 22, S 662-Postal Reform, and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · mid_year · Insurance
HR 298-FSA Rollover, HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans, S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account, HR 3234-HSA Expansion, S 334, HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage, HR 2761-TRIA, HR 1198-Reinsurance, S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”, S 558-Mental Health Parity, HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses, HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage, S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness, HR 1820, S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity, S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement, HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform, HR 976, HR 3162-SCHIP, HR 493, S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination, S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007, S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007, S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007, HR 1682, HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007, HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007, S 40, HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007, HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act, HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, HR 1081, S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007, HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007, HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act, S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007, S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007, S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007, S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act, S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans, HR 22, S 662-Postal Reform, and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
2007 · mid_year · Health Issues
HR 298-FSA Rollover, HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans, S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account, HR 3234-HSA Expansion, S 334, HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage, HR 2761-TRIA, HR 1198-Reinsurance, S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”, S 558-Mental Health Parity, HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses, HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage, S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness, HR 1820, S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity, S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement, HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform, HR 976, HR 3162-SCHIP, HR 493, S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination, S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007, S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007, S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007, HR 1682, HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007, HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007, S 40, HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007, HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act, HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, HR 1081, S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007, HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007, HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act, S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007, S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007, S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007, S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act, S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans, HR 22, S 662-Postal Reform, and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity include: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT, (continued on next page)
2007 · mid_year · Postal
HR 298-FSA Rollover, HR 2132-Small Business Health Plans, S 46-Individual Premiums paid via HSA Account, HR 3234-HSA Expansion, S 334, HR 1200-Universal Health Coverage, HR 2761-TRIA, HR 1198-Reinsurance, S 400-Insurance Protections for College Students “Michelle’s Law”, S 558-Mental Health Parity, HR 46-Tax Breaks for Small Businesses, HR 227-Tax Breaks for Individual Coverage, S 1753-Employer Tax Credits for Wellness, HR 1820, S 1556-Health Plan Tax Equity, S 1848-TAA Health Coverage Improvement, HR 506-Small Group Health Care Reform, HR 976, HR 3162-SCHIP, HR 493, S 358-Genetic Nondiscrimination, S 927-Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007, S 930-Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, S 928-Homeowners Protection Act of 2007, S 926-Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007, HR 1682, HR 3121-Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007, HR 920-Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, HR 921-Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2007, HR 922-National Flood Insurance Program Participation Evaluation Act of 2007, S 40, HR 3200-National Insurance Act of 2007, HR 1049-Amend Misinterpreted Excessive Regulation in Corporate America Act, HR 1065-Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, HR 1081, S 618-Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007, HR 1685-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 220-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, HR 336-Identity Theft Prevention and Timely Reporting Act of 2007, HR 958-Data Accountability and Trust Act, S 1178-Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007, S 1202-Personal Data Protection Act of 2007, S 239-Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act of 2007, S 495-Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007, S 806-Consumer ID Protection and Security Act, S 1260-Data Security Act of 2007, HR 3185-Pension Reform Covering Hybrid Plans, HR 22, S 662-Postal Reform, and Insurance Regulation Reform Legislation and regulations affecting insurance products including flood, terrorism, health insurance and HSA expansion, as well as tax issues. Other Lobbying activity includes: HR 15-National Health Care Coverage, HR 676-Single Payer, HR 1368-Health IT (continued on next page)
Client expense: $540,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Client expense: $1,251,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $228,003 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $540,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Client expense: $870,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Client expense: $1,006,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $289,643 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $870,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Client expense: $460,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), UNDETERMINED, White House Office
Client expense: $200,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $520,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $520,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $520,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $520,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $520,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $500,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $500,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $500,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $500,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $500,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $460,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), White House Office
Client expense: $895,459 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Pension & Welfare Benefits Administration, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Treasury, Dept of, White House Office