allow states to undermine erisa preemption. what we do is give the department of labor and state insurance commissioners badly needed authority to stop criminal enterprises. let me just go through a couple of quick -- just a quick summary of the provisions. first of all, we have two new -- create two new positions. one in hss, department in department of justice. senior adviser, senior counsel. they will provise oversight and coordination for health care fraud wind the federal government. second, the second section, b, even though we do have in place already a health care, fraud and abuse control program known as hcfac, we retain obviously that structure but we add to that what's known as the program integrity coordinating council. now, all that does is add to the responsibility of the program, meaning more coordination or responsibility for coordination as well as strategic planning, and also there's a provision that requires that this council provide or promulgate guidelines for federal agencies. section c is about false stat

of state fraud laws under erisa and allows the plans to be subject to 50 different state laws on fraud. and his amendment was strike that provision and maintain the current law. that is one of those things where we would be make it extremely difficult for employers to comply if they have employees and most of the states. another one of his eminence is to the department the kennedy bill the authority to take summary, seizure plans and a hazardous condition and our the department of labor had the authority for a season or a seizure on health insurance plans and that shuts them down and eliminates the service that might come to the people instead of some kind of mechanism for making sure they continue to be covered. all of the amendments deal with a erisa particularly the seas or seizure parts of it, i hope that the other part will take a look at those and see if isn't at the least a glimmer of idea to have some basis for a needed and hopefully have something done. he expands and the erisa and amendment number 34 and then senator hatch has an amendment number 28 which is studied to determ