Title VI, SEC. 6022. TERMINATION OF CORPORATE ALLIANCE FOR EXCESS INCREASE IN 
EXPENDITURES. 
      (a) Termination. 

        (1) In general. If a corporate alliance has two excess years (as 
      defined in subsection (b)) in a 3-year-period, then, effective beginning 
      with the second year following the second excess year in such period 

          (A) the Secretary of Labor shall terminate the corporate alliance, 
        and 

          (B) employers that were corporate alliance employers with respect to 
        such corporate alliance shall become regional alliance employers 
        (unless, in the case of a corporate alliance with a plan sponsor 
        described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 1311(b)(1), the 
        employers become corporate alliance employers of another such corporate 
        alliance). 

        (2) Initial 3-year-period. Paragraph (1) shall first apply to the 
      3-year-period beginning with 1997. 

        (3) Special subsequent treatment for large employers. In the case of 
      corporate alliance employers described in paragraph (1)(B) that are large 
      employers, the employer premium payments under section 6121 are subject 
      to adjustment under section 6124. 

        (4) No further election. If a corporate alliance of a large employer is 
      terminated under this subsection, no employer that is a corporate 
      alliance employer for that alliance is eligible to be a sponsor of a 
      corporate alliance. 

      (b) Excess Year. 

        (1) In general. In subsection (a), the term ``excess year'' means, for 
      a corporate alliance, a year (beginning on or after 2000) for which 

          (A) the rate of increase for the corporate alliance (specified in 
        paragraph (2)) for the year, exceeds 

          (B) the national corporate inflation factor (specified in paragraph 
        (3)) for the year. 

        (2) Rate of increase for corporate alliance. The rate of increase for a 
      corporate alliance for a year, specified in this paragraph, is the 
      percentage by which 

          (A) the average of the annual per capita expenditure equivalent for 
        the corporate alliance (reported under section 6021(c)) for the 3-year 
        period ending with such year, exceeds 

          (B) the average of the annual per capita expenditure equivalent for 
        the corporate alliance (reported under such subsection) for the 3-year 
        period ending with the previous year. 

        (3) National corporate inflation factor. The national corporate 
      inflation factor for a year, specified in this paragraph, is the average 
      of the general health care inflation factors (as defined in section 
      6001(a)(3)) for each of the 3 years ending with such year.