Union Tax Fairness Act of 2013

Union Tax Fairness Act of 2013 - Requires that the payments to an applicable reinsurance entity for any plan year beginning in the three-year period beginning January 1, 2014, required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be applied equally to all health insurance issuers and third party administrators (on behalf of group health plans). Prohibits such payments from being waived on behalf of any such issuer, administrator, or group health plan.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1724 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1724

 To provide that the reinsurance fee for the transitional reinsurance 
program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be applied 
    equally to all health insurance issuers and group health plans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 19, 2013

   Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
 Vitter, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Scott, 
Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Boozman, and Mr. Roberts) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the reinsurance fee for the transitional reinsurance 
program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be applied 
    equally to all health insurance issuers and group health plans.

    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 ``Union Tax Fairness Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF REINSURANCE FEE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the payments required 
to be made by health insurance issuers and third party administrators 
(on behalf of group health plans) under section 1341(b)(1)(A) of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18061(b)(1)(A)) 
shall be applied equally to all such issuers and administrators and may 
not be waived on behalf of any such issuer, administrator or group 
health plan.
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