I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 607 
To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the 
application of sequestration until 2014. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 8, 2013 
Mr. THORNBERRY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Edu-
cation and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Re-
sources, Rules, Appropriations, House Administration, and Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 
2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestra-
tion until 2014. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DELAY IN CERTAIN PPACA PROVISIONS UNTIL 
2016. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any pro-
vision of (including any amendment made by) the Patient 
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Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111– 
148) or of title I or subtitle B of title II of the Health 
Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 (Public 
Law 111–152) that is otherwise scheduled to take effect 
in 2014 or 2015 shall not take effect until January 1, 
2016. 
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF FISCAL YEAR 2013 SEQUESTRA-
TIONS. 
(a) ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC SECTION 251A SE-
QUESTRATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013.—Section 251A of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 is amended as follows: 
(1)(A) In paragraph (3), strike ‘‘2013’’ and in-
sert ‘‘2014’’. 
(B) In paragraph (3), insert ‘‘and’’ at the end 
of subparagraph (C), strike ‘‘; and’’ and insert a pe-
riod at the end of subparagraph (D), and strike sub-
paragraph (E). 
(2) In paragraph (4), strike ‘‘On March 1, 
2013, for fiscal year 2013, and in’’ and insert ‘‘In’’. 
(3) In paragraph (5), strike ‘‘2013’’ and insert 
‘‘2014’’. 
(4) In paragraph (6), strike ‘‘2013’’ and insert 
‘‘2014’’. 
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(5) In paragraph (7), strike subparagraph (A), 
strike ‘‘(B) FISCAL YEARS 2014-2021.’’, move the re-
maining text 2 ems to the left, strike ‘‘(i)’’ and in-
sert ‘‘(A)’’, and strike ‘‘(ii)’’ and insert ‘‘(B)’’. 
(b) ELIMINATION OF SEQUESTRATION UNDER SEC-
TION 251 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 254(f)(5) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President shall not issue 
an order under such section to carry out any sequestration 
that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
estimates is required for fiscal year 2013. 
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