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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 596 
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care- 
related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act 
of 2010, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2015 
Mr. BYRNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Edu-
cation and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Re-
sources, Rules, House Administration, Appropriations, and the Budget, 
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 
A BILL 
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
and health care-related provisions in the Health Care 
and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. REPEAL OF PPACA AND HEALTH CARE-RE-
LATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE 
AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 
2010. 
(a) PPACA.—Effective as of the enactment of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 
111–148), such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law 
amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived 
as if such Act had not been enacted. 
(b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE 
HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 
2010.—Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care 
and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 
111–152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act 
are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or re-
pealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored 
or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been en-
acted. 
SEC. 2. BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF THIS ACT. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
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House of Representatives, as long as such statement has 
been submitted prior to the vote on passage of this Act. 
SEC. 3. REPORTING REPLACEMENT LEGISLATION. 
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 
the House of Representatives shall each report to the 
House of Representatives legislation proposing changes to 
existing law within each committee’s jurisdiction with pro-
visions that— 
(1) foster economic growth and private sector 
job creation by eliminating job-killing policies and 
regulations; 
(2) lower health care premiums through in-
creased competition and choice; 
(3) preserve a patient’s ability to keep his or 
her health plan if he or she likes it; 
(4) provide people with pre-existing conditions 
access to affordable health coverage; 
(5) reform the medical liability system to re-
duce unnecessary and wasteful health care spending; 
(6) increase the number of insured Americans; 
(7) protect the doctor-patient relationship; 
(8) provide the States greater flexibility to ad-
minister Medicaid programs; 
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(9) expand incentives to encourage personal re-
sponsibility for health care coverage and costs; 
(10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and 
provide conscience protections for health care pro-
viders; 
(11) eliminate duplicative government programs 
and wasteful spending; or 
(12) do not accelerate the insolvency of entitle-
ment programs or increase the tax burden on Ameri-
cans. 
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