Restoring Access to Medication Act

Restoring Access to Medication Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that limited payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements to only prescription drugs or insulin.

Rescinds appropriated but unobligated discretionary funds determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to be equal to the reduction in tax revenues resulting from the repeal in this Act. Requires the Director to report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress the accounts and amounts identified for rescission. Exempts unobligated funds of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or the Social Security Administration (SSA).

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2529 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2529

   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal 
  distributions for medicine qualified only if for prescribed drug or 
                                insulin.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2011

   Ms. Jenkins (for herself, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
 Braley of Iowa, Mr. Latta, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Austria, Mrs. Capito, Mr. 
      Jones, Mr. Coble, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Paul, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Bilbray, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
   Posey, and Mrs. Ellmers) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal 
  distributions for medicine qualified only if for prescribed drug or 
                                insulin.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Restoring Access to Medication 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MEDICINE QUALIFIED ONLY IF FOR 
              PRESCRIBED DRUG OR INSULIN.

    Section 9003 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111-148) and the amendments made by such section are 
repealed; and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied as if 
such section, and amendments, had never been enacted.

SEC. 3. RESCISSION OF UNSPENT FEDERAL FUNDS TO OFFSET LOSS IN REVENUES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of all 
available unobligated funds, appropriated discretionary funds are 
hereby rescinded in such amounts as determined by the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget such that the aggregate amount of such 
rescission equals the reduction in revenues to the Treasury by reason 
of the repeal, and amendments, made by section 2.
    (b) Implementation.--The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall determine and identify from which appropriation accounts 
the rescission under subsection (a) shall apply and the amount of such 
rescission that shall apply to each such account. Not later than 60 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall submit a report to the Secretary 
of the Treasury and Congress of the accounts and amounts determined and 
identified for rescission under the preceding sentence.
    (c) Exception.--This section shall not apply to the unobligated 
funds of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Social Security 
Administration.
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