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IRS Accountability Act of 2013 [S.962]
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IRS Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 to prohibit any amounts made available in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 from being appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for purposes of carrying out such Acts. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) none of the amounts made available in PPACA or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 should be appropriated to the IRS to carry
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Lee
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 05/15/2013
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EACH Act [S.862]
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Equitable Access to Care and Health Act or the EACH Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to minimum essential health care coverage requirements added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to allow an additional religious exemption from such requirements for individuals whose sincerely held religious beliefs would cause them to object to medical health care provided under such coverage. Defines "medical health care" to mean voluntary health treatment by or supervised by a medical doctor that would be covered under minimum
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Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 05/06/2013
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Patient Choice Restoration Act [S.499]
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Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ted Cruz
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/07/2013
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Affordable Health Insurance for the Middle Class Act [S.2908]
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Affordable Health Insurance for the Middle Class Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand eligibility for the health care premium assistance refundable tax credit by defining an "applicable taxpayer" as a taxpayer whose household income does not exceed 600% of the federal poverty line (currently, 400%), and (2) increase the excise tax rate for small cigars and small cigarettes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S5795-5796) on 09/18/2014
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Simplifying Technical Aspects Regarding Seasonality Act of 2014 [S.2881]
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Simplifying Technical Aspects Regarding Seasonality Act of 2014 or the STARS Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt seasonal employees from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage. Defines "seasonal employee" as an employee who is employed in a position for which the customary annual employment is not more than six months and which requires performing labor or services that are ordinarily performed at certain seasons or periods of the year.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kelly Ayotte
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 09/18/2014
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Employee Health Care Protection Act of 2014 [S.2808]
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Employee Health Care Protection Act of 2014 - Permits a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the group market on any date during 2013 to continue offering such coverage for sale during 2014 outside of a health care exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Treats such coverage as a grandfathered health plan for purposes of an individual meeting the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Vitter
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 09/15/2014
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Heath Care Consumer Choices Preservation Act [S.2801]
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Heath Care Consumer Choices Preservation Act - Prohibits automatic renewal for 2015 of an individual's health plan purchased through a health exchange for coverage in 2014 unless the 2015 premiums are the same as the 2014 premiums (before and after federal subsidies) or the individual requests automatic renewal.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael B. Enzi
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 09/11/2014
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A bill to establish a board of directors and CEO to oversee the Federal Exchange and State Exchanges, and to provide health insurance oversight. [S.2749]
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Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish the Marketplace Health Insurance Corporation, with a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Board of Directors, to oversee health care exchanges and health insurance. Directs the President, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint as CEO an individual with a background in health care issues and private-sector management experience. Requires the Board of Directors to advise the CEO on issues including: (1) the functionality of healthcare.gov, (2) the selection of federal exchange health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 07/31/2014
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Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2014 [S.2733]
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Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2014 - Exempts from the minimum essential coverage requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act individuals who request an exemption through a health care marketplace or on their federal income tax return.
Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 07/31/2014
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Stopping Illegal Obamacare Subsidies Act [S.2701]
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Stopping Illegal Obamacare Subsidies Act - Prohibits American Health Benefit Exchanges from providing for automatic enrollment in health plans until the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) verifies that each state exchange and the federal exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) have resolved the inconsistencies outlined in the June 14 IG report. Directs the Secretary of HHS to make public the steps that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the federal
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Sessions
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 07/30/2014
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Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014 [S.2578]
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Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014 - Affirms requirements, notwithstanding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, that: (1) an employer that establishes or maintains a group health plan for its employees must provide coverage of a specific item or service for the employees or their dependents where the coverage is required under federal provisions or regulations pursuant to those provisions; and (2) group health plans sponsored by an employer or employee organization, and any health insurance coverage, must provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Motion To Proceed To Consideration Of Measure Made In Senate. (consideration: Cr S4513, S4528-4535) on 07/16/2014
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Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies [S.2462]
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Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any elementary or secondary school, state or local educational agency, and institution of higher education from the definition of "applicable large employer" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide health care coverage for employees.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/11/2014
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Truth in Obamacare Accounting Act [S.2446]
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Truth in Obamacare Accounting Act - Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide regular estimates of the net effect that enactment and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 had on direct spending, revenue, and the deficit. Requires CBO to include the estimates in each annual and revised report on the budget and economic outlook prepared pursuant to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Johnson
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Budget. on 06/05/2014
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SIGMA Act of 2014 [S.2430]
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Special Inspector General for Monitoring the ACA Act of 2014 or the SIGMA Act of 2014 - Establishes the Office of the Special Inspector General for Monitoring the Affordable Care Act to conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits and investigations of the implementation and administration of programs and activities established under, and payment system changes made by, the Affordable Care Act (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010). Requires the Special
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rob Portman
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S3426-3428) on 06/04/2014
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State Exchange Accountability Act [S.2339]
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State Exchange Accountability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require a state to reimburse the federal government for the amount of establishment or early innovator grants the state received to operate a health care exchange if it operated an exchange in 2014 but subsequently elected to provide for enrollment in qualified health plans solely through the federal health care exchange. Requires that: (1) reimbursement be made in full within 10 years of such election, pursuant to an agreement with the Department of Health
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S3031-3032) on 05/14/2014
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Health Care Fairness and Stability Act [S.2253]
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Health Care Fairness and Stability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide a temporary shift in the scheduled collection of payments for the transitional reinsurance program intended to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual health insurance markets from 2014 through 2016. Amends PPACA to delay the collection of reinsurance payments from health insurance issuers and third party administrators of certain self-insured group health plans until January 1, 2018. Amends PPACA to change the formula
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/10/2014
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Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Protection Act [S.2214]
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Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Protection Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with respect to the program of risk corridors (under which a qualified health plan offered in the individual or small group market is required to participate in a payment adjustment system based on the ratio of the allowable costs of the plan to the plan's aggregate premiums), to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that payments to and from a plan are provided for in amounts necessary to reduce to zero the cost to the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Marco Rubio
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/07/2014
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Small Business Fairness in Health Care Act [S.2205]
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Small Business Fairness in Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to: (1) exempt a small business concern, as defined by the Small Business Act, from the PPACA employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage; and (2) redefine "full-time employee," for purposes of such mandate, as an employee who is employed on average at least 40 (currently, 30) hours a week.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 04/03/2014
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage, and for other purposes. [S.2191]
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on employer-sponsored health care coverage for which there is an excess benefit (high-cost plans). Amends the Public Health Service Act to replace the annual review of unreasonable increases in health insurance premiums with a five-year program of grants to states for establishing centers to collect and make available medical reimbursement information from health insurance issuers. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael B. Enzi
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S1934-1935) on 04/01/2014
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Hire More Heroes Act of 2014 [S.2190]
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Hire More Heroes Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an employer, for purposes of determining whether such employer is an applicable large employer and thus required to provide health care coverage to its employees under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to exclude employees who have coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), including TRICARE, or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 04/01/2014