Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 2013

Forty Hours is Full Time Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the employer mandate to provide health care coverage, to: (1) modify the formula for calculating the number of full-time employees employed by an applicable large employer subject to the mandate; and (2) define a "full-time employee" as an employee who is employed on average at least 40 hours per week (currently, 30 hours).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2988 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2988

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of 
full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient 
                  Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2013

 Mr. Lipinski (for himself, Mr. Barrow of Georgia, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. 
Matheson, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Peterson, and Mr. Schrader) 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 modify the definition of 
full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in 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 ``Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE.

    Section 4980H(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(E), by striking ``by 120'' and 
        inserting ``by 174''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4)(A) by striking ``30 hours'' and 
        inserting ``40 hours''.
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