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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset50241 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Op Calendar No. 160 106TH CONGRESS S REPORT 1st Session SENATE 106-82 PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 1999 JUNE 17, 1999.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. JEFFORDS, from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, submitted the following REPORT together with ADDITIONAL, MINORITY, AND SUPPLEMENTAL VIEWS [To accompany S. 3261 The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, to which was referred the bill (S. 326) to improve the access and choice of patients to quality, affordable health care, having consid- ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill do pass. CONTENTS Page I. Purpose and summary of the legislation ..................................................... 1 II. Background and need for the legislation ..................................................... 5 III. Legislative history and votes in committee ................................................. 16 IV. Explanation of the legislation and committee views .................................. 28 V . C ost estim ate ................................................................................................. . 57 VI. Application of law to the legislative branch ............................................... 62 VII. Regulatory im pact statem ent ........................................................................ 62 V III. Section-by-section analysis ............................................................................ 63 IX . A ddition al view s ............................................................................................. 96 X . M in ority view s ............................................................................................... 100 X I. Supplem ental view s ....................................................................................... 109 IX . Changes in existing law ................................................................................ 110 I. PURPOSE AND SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION Purpose. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 governs pension plans and employee welfare benefit plans, including group health plans. For group health plans, it contains 57-401