I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1814 
To amend section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
an additional religious exemption from the individual health coverage mandate. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2013 
Mr. SCHOCK (for himself, Mr. KEATING, Mr. BRIDENSTINE, Mr. BURGESS, 
Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. 
RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. FORBES, Mr. GARRETT, 
Mr. GOODLATTE, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. GRIFFITH
of Virginia, Ms. 
HANABUSA, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, Mrs. CAROLYN 
B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. MOORE, 
Mr. PEARCE, Mr. PETRI, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. POCAN, Mr. ROHR-
ABACHER, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, 
Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. 
SMITH of Texas, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. YOUNG of Florida, Mr. 
YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. YOUNG of Indiana, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WOLF, Mr. 
GARDNER, Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. PERLMUTTER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide an additional religious exemption from 
the individual health coverage mandate. 
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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equitable Access to 
Care and Health Act’’ or the ‘‘EACH Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION TO HEALTH 
COVERAGE MANDATE. 
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph 
(2) 
of 
section 
5000A(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) 
ADDITIONAL
RELIGIOUS
EXEMP-
TION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Such term shall 
not include an individual for any month 
during a taxable year if such individual 
files a sworn statement, as part of the re-
turn of tax for the taxable year, that the 
individual was not covered under minimum 
essential coverage at any time during such 
taxable year and that the individual’s sin-
cerely held religious beliefs would cause the 
individual to object to medical health care 
that would be covered under such coverage. 
‘‘(ii) NULLIFIED IF RECEIPT OF MED-
ICAL
HEALTH
CARE
DURING
TAXABLE 
YEAR.—Clause (i) shall not apply to an in-
dividual for any month during a taxable 
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year if the individual received medical 
health care during the taxable year. 
‘‘(iii) MEDICAL
HEALTH
CARE
DE-
FINED.—For purposes of this subpara-
graph, the term ‘medical health care’ 
means voluntary health treatment by or 
supervised by a medical doctor that would 
be covered under minimum essential cov-
erage and— 
‘‘(I) includes voluntary acute care 
treatment 
at 
hospital 
emergency 
rooms, walk-in clinics, or similar fa-
cilities, and 
‘‘(II) excludes— 
‘‘(aa) treatment not admin-
istered or supervised by a med-
ical doctor, such as chiropractic 
treatment, 
dental 
care, 
mid-
wifery, personal care assistance, 
or optometry, 
‘‘(bb) physical examinations 
or treatment where required by 
law or third parties, such as a 
prospective employer, and 
‘‘(cc) vaccinations.’’. 
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