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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
115TH CONGRESS J REPT. 115-459
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PRESERVING EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAMS ACT
DECEMBER 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1313]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 1313) to clarify rules relating to nondiscrim-
inatory workplace wellness programs, having considered the same,
report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that
the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) Congress has a strong tradition of protecting and preserving employee
workplace wellness programs, including programs that utilize a health risk as-
sessment, biometric screening, or other resources to inform and empower em-
ployees in making healthier lifestyle choices;
(2) health promotion and prevention programs are a means to reduce the bur-
den of chronic illness, improve health, and limit the growth of health care costs;
(3) in enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law
111-148), Congress intended that employers would be permitted to implement
health promotion and prevention programs that provide incentives, rewards, re-
bates, surcharges, penalties, or other inducements related to wellness programs,
including rewards of up to 50 percent off of insurance premiums for employees
participating in programs designed to encourage healthier lifestyle choices; and
(4) Congress has struck an appropriate balance among employees, health care
providers, and wellness plan sponsors to protect individual privacy and con-
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