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H. Rept. 119-409 1 (2025-12-15)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahxg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-409 ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS ACT DECEMBER 15, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WALBERG, from the Committee on Education and Workforce, submitted the following REPORT together with MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 2528] The Committee on Education and Workforce, to whom was re- ferred the bill (H.R. 2528) to amend the Employee Retirement In- come Security Act of 1974 to clarify the treatment of certain asso- ciation health plans as employers, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Striking all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Association Health Plans Act. SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF GROUP OR ASSOCIATION OF EMPLOYERS. (a) IN GENERAL.-Section 3(5) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1002(5)) is amended- (1) by striking The term and inserting (A) The term; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), a group or association of employers shall be treated as an 'employer' solely for purposes of sponsoring a group health plan, regardless of whether the employers composing such group or association are in the same industry, trade, or profession, if such group or association- (i)(I) has established and maintains an employee welfare benefit plan that is a group health plan (as defined in section 733(a)(1)); (II) provides coverage under such plan to at least 51 employees after all of the employees employed by all of the employer members of such group or asso- ciation have been aggregated and counted together as described in subpara- graph (D); (III) has been actively in existence for at least 2 years; 69-006