Freeing Americans from Inequitable Requirements Act of 2014 or the FAIR Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the individual mandate to purchase health care coverage, to delay such requirement from taking effect until the Secretary of the Treasury submits to Congress a certification that the employer mandate to provide health care coverage for employees is being applied and administered without any administratively created exceptions.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4064 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4064
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the
individual health insurance mandate not apply until the employer health
insurance mandate is enforced without exceptions.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 14, 2014
Mr. Scalise (for himself and Mrs. Brooks of Indiana) 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 that the
individual health insurance mandate not apply until the employer health
insurance mandate is enforced without exceptions.
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 ``Freeing Americans from Inequitable
Requirements Act of 2014'' or the ``FAIR Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Since the passage of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (hereafter referred to as ``PPACA''), the
Administration--through the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Department of the Treasury--has unilaterally
delayed or changed PPACA at least eighteen times.
(2) On July 2, 2013, the Administration delayed until 2015
the PPACA requirement that employers with at least 50 full-time
equivalent employees provide health coverage for their full-
time workers or risk paying a penalty to the Internal Revenue
Service.
(3) On February 10, 2014, the Administration once again
delayed the PPACA requirement until 2016 for employers with
between 50 and 99 full-time equivalent employees to provide
qualified health insurance to their employees.
(4) The Administration lacks the authority to unilaterally
change statutorily defined dates in order to delay the
implementation of any provision of PPACA.
(5) If the Administration continues to suspend the
penalties for businesses absent any statutory authority, then
the penalties for all Americans should be suspended on the
basis of fundamental fairness.
(b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to require the suspension
of the enforcement of penalties associated with the individual mandate
should the Administration unilaterally announce a suspension of the
enforcement of penalties for any component of the employer mandate.
SEC. 3. INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE DELAYED UNTIL EMPLOYER
HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE ENFORCED WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS.
(a) In General.--Section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(h) Delay Until Employer Health Insurance Mandate Enforced
Without Exceptions.--This section shall not apply with respect to any
month which begins before the date on which the Secretary submits to
Congress a certification that section 4980H is being applied and
administered without any administratively created exceptions.''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply
to months beginning after December 31, 2013.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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