Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5147 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5147

 To provide certain uninsured individuals a special enrollment period 
   after tax filing in 2015 for enrollment in qualified health plans 
          offered through an Exchange, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2014

 Mrs. Kirkpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide certain uninsured individuals a special enrollment period 
   after tax filing in 2015 for enrollment in qualified health plans 
          offered through an Exchange, 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 ``Get Your Refund, Get Your Health 
Care Act''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD FOR CERTAIN UNINSURED INDIVIDUALS 
              AFTER TAX FILING PERIOD IN 2015.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
require that Exchanges established under title I of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) provide to 
qualified uninsured individuals a 60-day special enrollment period that 
begins on April 15, 2015 (or, if earlier, on the date such individual 
files an income tax return applicable to the first taxable year 
beginning on or after January 1, 2014).
    (b) Qualified Uninsured Individual Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``qualified uninsured individual'' means an individual who--
            (1) is eligible, but who has not elected, to enroll in a 
        qualified health plan offered through an Exchange established 
        under title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
        (Public Law 111-148) during the open enrollment period for 
        2015; and
            (2) is liable for a penalty under section 5000A of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to any month in 
        2014.
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