H.R.1424 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans. view all titles (20)

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  • Short: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 as introduced.
  • Official: To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans. as introduced.
  • Official: To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, and section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, and for other purposes. as amended by house.
  • Short: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 as reported to house.
  • Short: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 as passed house.
  • Short: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 as passed house.
  • Official: To amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, and for other purposes. as amended by house.
  • Short: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 as passed senate.
  • Short: Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 as passed senate.
  • Official: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, 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. as amended by senate.
  • Short: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, 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. as passed senate.
  • Short: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as enacted.
  • Short: Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 as enacted.
  • Short: Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 as enacted.
  • Short: Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 as enacted.
  • Short: Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 as enacted.
  • Popular: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as introduced.

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10/07/08
United States: Congress Passes And President Signs Into Law ...

Congress has passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, HR 1424 (the "Act") , authorizing the Administration's $700 billion US economic rescue ...

Source: Mondaq News Alerts (subscription), UK
10/07/08
Capital Highlights

AUSTIN -- The US House of Representatives passed HR 1424, the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" on Oct. 3. It was the House's second attempt in ...

Source: Diboll Free Press, TX
10/07/08
Conaway changes his vote on bailout plan

... following the Senate’s adoption of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Wednesday voted “yea” Friday on a revised version of HR 1424. ...

Source: Burnet Bulletin, TX
10/07/08
County gets reprieve with timber payment extension

The rescue bill, HR 1424, included a three-year re-authorization of federal timber payments, amounting to a $12.5 million dollar shot in the arm for ...

Source: Clackamas Review, OR
10/07/08
America flies on leading zephyr of global wind power

... offered to members of Congress as part of HR 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which the Senate passed last week in a 74-25 vote. ...

Source: EnergyCurrent, TX
10/07/08
Ridiculous bill

Brownback and Roberts for not being fooled into voting for this ridiculous Wall Street buyout bill (HR 1424.) Handing as much as $700 billion to former Wall ...

Source: Lawrence Journal World, KS
10/07/08
LSB Industries, Inc. Comments on Passage of HR 1424's Geothermal ...

According to LSB’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jack Golsen, "We believe that the tax incentives contained in HR 1424, should provide a basis for ...

Source: WELT ONLINE, Germany
10/07/08
Will the bailout have any impact on executive pay?

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 1424) states that limits on executive pay apply to the top five highest-paid executives at financial ...

Source: NetworkWorld.com, MA
10/07/08
United States: Tax Extenders And Alternative Minimum Tax Relief ...

In its Statement of Administration Policy, the White House expressed support for the tax provisions included in HR 1424, the Emergency Economic ...

Source: Mondaq News Alerts (subscription), UK
10/07/08
LSB Industries, Inc. Comments on Passage of HR 1424's Geothermal ...

According to LSB's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jack Golsen, "We believe that the tax incentives contained in HR 1424, should provide a basis for ...

Source: Trading Markets (press release), CA
10/06/08
Bailout Analysis

By Bob Williams, 10/6/2008 9:06:24 AM Last week, the bailout bill (HR 1424 http://senateconservatives.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ayo08c32_xml.pdf ) was ...

Source: Hawaii Reporter, HI
10/06/08
Do Not Re-Elect the Following Georgia Congressional Candidates on ...

The following Georgia US House and Senate congressional leaders are up for re-election on November 4th and voted for the Bailout Bill of 2008 (HR 1424). ...

Source: Designer Today (press release), GA
10/06/08
Maybe Wells Fargo Will Buy Citi and Wachovia

... its "toxic" assets to the new Troubled Assets Relief Program, TARP, which was created by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 1424). ...

Source: Seeking Alpha, NY
10/06/08
US govt. bailout benefits coal, miners as well as bankers

The $700 billion bailout bill, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 1424), enacted by Congress to help financial institutions will also ...

Source: Mineweb, UK
10/06/08
The 'Wall Street bailout':

After the House upended them, the Senate skillfully attached two other bills to the original Bailout Bill (HR 1424), thus making it political suicide to ...

Source: The Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ
10/06/08
The Bailaholics

HR 1424 -- the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which now has been signed into law -- officially includes more than $112 billion in political ...

Source: Town Hall, DC
10/06/08
Bush Enacts Mental Health Parity Act

... (HR 1424), group health plans are required to apply the same treatment limits on mental health benefits as they do for medical and surgical benefits. ...

Source: HR.BLR.com
10/06/08
Bayh for new bailout package, Visclosky again against

Evan Bayh, D-Ind., voted for HR 1424—the so-called bailout package, or the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act”—while US Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-1st, ...

Source: Chesterton Tribune,  United States
10/06/08
Should America Bail Out ‘Sharia’ Finance

With the passage of the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" by the US Senate and the US House of Representatives (HR 1424), a key part of its ...

Source: Family Security Matters, NJ
10/06/08
The Congressional Betrayal of America

To his pathetic, costly and destructive legacy President George W. Bush has added the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 1424) ...

Source: Capitalism Magazine, Bahamas
10/06/08
IPC Seeks Long-Term Credit for Electronics Manufacturers

... Connecting Electronics Industries® is celebrating; the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008 (HR 1424) was signed into law late Friday night. ...

Source: PCB007 (press release), OR
10/06/08
Bailout Analysis - No Ordinary Investment Strategy

In addition, if you carefully read between the lines, you find plenty of pork slipped in the 451-page bailout-bill, called HR 1424. ...

Source: ETFguide, CA
10/06/08
The Financial Services Bailout and the Congressional Windup

Our analysis of government estimates places its cost at about $2800 per US family. HR 1424 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Costs $2859.25 ...

Source: PR Newswire (press release), NY
10/05/08
McCain-Palin: The wasted vote

Sarah Palin all supported HR 1424: A bill to provide authority for the federal government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the ...

Source: WorldNetDaily, OR
10/05/08
Why I Decided To Vote For John McCain

I don't pretend to understand the details of HR:1424 (the bailout bill) but I do know that our nation and our way of life is under siege. ...

Source: The Chattanoogan, TN
10/05/08
Guest column: Financial crisis or leadership crisis?

On Wednesday, the US Senate passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 1424), on a bipartisan vote of 74 to 25. ...

Source: Green Bay Press Gazette, WI
10/05/08
The bail-a-holics

HR 1424 – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which has now been signed into law, officially includes more than $112 billion in political hors ...

Source: WorldNetDaily, OR
10/05/08
Thomas Voting Reports

Failed rescue plan: Members rejected, 205-228, a bailout proposal that was essentially the same as the one in HR 1424 (above) but unsweetened by add-ons ...

Source: TheNewsTribune.com, WA
10/05/08
'Decisive action to ease credit crunch'

US President George W. Bush signs HR 1424, the $700-billion bailout package for US banks, into law Friday in Washington, DC The House approved the measure ...

Source: The Province, Canada
10/04/08
Bailing Out Wall Street by Selling out Main Street

by Cindy Sheehan I am watching the debate on CSPAN over HR 1424 the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act." As you can imagine there is empty rhetoric on ...

Source: Center for Research on Globalization, Canada

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