Fairness for America's Heroes Act of 2013

Fairness for America's Heroes Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to exempt veterans, until January 1, 2015, from the penalty for failure to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Defines a "veteran," for purposes of this Act, as an individual who served on active duty (other than active duty for training) and who has been discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2876 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2876

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide veterans with a 
  1-year exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential 
     coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2013

 Mr. Flores (for himself, Mr. Benishek, Mr. Cook, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Roe 
 of Tennessee, Mr. Fleming, and Mr. Coffman) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide veterans with a 
  1-year exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential 
     coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    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 ``Fairness for America's Heroes Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. 1-YEAR EXEMPTION FOR VETERANS FROM INDIVIDUAL MANDATE UNDER 
              PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 5000A(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) Veterans.--Any applicable individual for any month 
        beginning before January 1, 2015, if the individual is a 
        veteran. For purposes of this paragraph, the term `veteran' 
        means an individual who served on active duty (other than 
        active duty for training) in the Armed Forces of the United 
        States and has been discharged or released from active duty in 
        the Armed Forces of the United States under conditions other 
        than dishonorable.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the amendments made by section 1501 of 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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