HR 5386 · 102th Congress · Labor and Employment
Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements Enforcement Improvements Act of 1992
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EnactedLatest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.(1992-06-16)
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Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements Enforcement Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise provisions relating to multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) and other employee welfare benefit plans. Revises the definition of employee welfare benefit plan to: (1) allow up to five percent of the aggregate number of covered individuals to be individuals who are not employees or former employees of the employee, or members or former members of the employee organization which established or maintains the plan; and (2) include a plan, fund, or program established or maintained by a franchise network or by two or more trades or businesses that are within the same control group or were within it at any time during the preceding one-year period. Amends the definition of MEWA to: (1) limit the exclusion of collective bargaining agreements, under specified conditions; (2) exclude franchise networks; (3) exclude insurers, or health maintenance organizations licensed to do business in a State; (4) exclude trades and businesses within the same control group at any time during the preceding one-year period (as well as those curre…
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