Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013 - Permits a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the individual market as of January 1, 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.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3350 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3350

  To authorize health insurance issuers to continue to offer for sale 
  current individual health insurance coverage in satisfaction of the 
minimum essential health insurance coverage requirement, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2013

    Mr. Upton (for himself, Mr. Hall, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Olson, Mrs. 
   Blackburn, Mr. Harper, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. 
 McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Griffith of Virginia, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Walden, 
Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Long, Mr. 
Bilirakis, Mr. Lance, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Pitts, Mr. 
Guthrie, Mr. Barton, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois, 
   Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Latta, Mr. Terry, Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Shimkus) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
   Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means, 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 authorize health insurance issuers to continue to offer for sale 
  current individual health insurance coverage in satisfaction of the 
minimum essential health insurance coverage requirement, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. IF YOU LIKE YOUR HEALTH CARE PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP IT.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any provision of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act (including any amendment made by 
such Act or by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 
2010), a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance 
coverage in the individual market as of January 1, 2013, may continue 
after such date to offer such coverage for sale during 2014 in such 
market outside of an Exchange established under section 1311 or 1321 of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 18031, 18041).
    (b) Treatment as Grandfathered Health Plan in Satisfaction of 
Minimum Essential Coverage.--Health insurance coverage described in 
subsection (a) shall be treated as a grandfathered health plan for 
purposes of the amendment made by section 1501(b) of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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