Exchange Sunset Act of 2013

Exchange Sunset Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make inapplicable provisions concerning Health Benefit Exchanges if one or more Exchanges fail to accept applications for enrollment in qualified health plans beginning on October 1, 2013.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential coverage upon such a determination by the Secretary of the Treasury.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1272 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1272

  To provide that certain requirements of the Patient Protection and 
    Affordable Care Act do not apply if the American Health Benefit 
            Exchanges are not operating on October 1, 2013.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2013

  Mr. Roberts (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Coats, Mr. Cochran, Mr. 
  Inhofe, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Enzi) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that certain requirements of the Patient Protection and 
    Affordable Care Act do not apply if the American Health Benefit 
            Exchanges are not operating on October 1, 2013.

    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 ``Exchange Sunset Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. NONAPPLICATION OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE 
              ACT.

    (a) Termination of Exchange Requirement.--Section 1311 of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Failure To Offer Coverage.--If one or more Exchanges fails to 
accept applications for enrollment in qualified health plans beginning 
on October 1, 2013, the requirements of this section shall cease to 
apply, and any other provisions of this Act (or an amendment made by 
this Act) relating to Exchanges shall not be applicable.''.
    (b) Requirement of Coverage.--Section 5000A of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Termination.--The provisions of this section shall terminate 
on October 1, 2013, if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that 
one or more Exchanges fails to accept applications for enrollment in 
qualified health plans on such date.''.
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