Health Care Reform: Recommendations to Improve Coordination of Federal and State Initiatives : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 22, 2007, Volume 4 |
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Page 61 - Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the provisions of this title and title IV shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan described in section 4(a) and not exempt under section 4(b).
Page 62 - The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 170,000 individual members, the Society's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available.
Page 42 - Finally, I wish to make note of what is to many the crowning achievement of this legislation, the reservation to Federal authority the sole power to regulate the field of employee benefit plans. With the preemption of the field, we round out the protection afforded participants by eliminating the threat of conflicting and inconsistent State and local regulation.
Page 42 - crowning achievement." 120 Cong. Rec. 29197 (1974). Senator Williams said: "It should be stressed that with the narrow exceptions specified in the bill, the substantive and enforcement provisions of the conference substitute are intended to preempt the field for Federal regulations, thus eliminating the threat of conflicting or inconsistent State and local regulation of employee benefit plans. This principle is intended to apply in its broadest sense to all actions of State or local governments,...
Page 42 - Although the desirability of further regulation — at either the State or Federal level — undoubtedly warrants further attention, on balance, the emergence of a comprehensive and pervasive Federal interest and the interests of uniformity with respect to interstate plans required — but for certain exceptions — the displacement of State action in the field of private employee benefit programs.
Page 42 - ... with one major exception appearing in the House bill - defined the perimeters of preemption in relation to the areas regulated by the bill. Such a formulation raised the possibility of endless litigation over the validity of State action that might impinge on Federal regulation, as well as opening the door to multiple and potentially conflicting State laws hastily contrived to deal with some particular aspect of private welfare or pension benefit plans not clearly connected to the Federal regulatory...
Page 64 - Member companies comprise nearly a third of the total value of the US stock market and represent nearly a third of all corporate income taxes paid to the federal government. Collectively, they returned more than $1 10 billion in dividends to shareholders and the economy in 2005.
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Page 43 - BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR STANDARDS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1986 My name is Jay Mazur. I am the President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers
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