Title: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require employees of the White House to enroll in Obamacare, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill requires White House employees, including employees in the Executive Office of the President, to obtain health coverage by a plan offered through a health insurance exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4004 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4004

  To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require 
  employees of the White House to enroll in Obamacare, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 10, 2017

  Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
   Committee on 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require 
  employees of the White House to enroll in Obamacare, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT FOR WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEES TO ENROLL IN 
              OBAMACARE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1312(d)(3)(D) of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)--
                    (A) by striking ``and congressional staff'' and 
                inserting ``, congressional staff, and any White House 
                employee''; and
                    (B) by striking ``or congressional staff'' and 
                inserting ``, congressional staff, or White House 
                employee''; and
            (2) in clause (ii), by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(III) White house employee.--The 
                                term `White House employee' means any 
                                employee (as that term is defined in 
                                section 2105 of title 5, United States 
                                Code) of the White House, including the 
                                Executive Office of the President.''.
    (b) Application.--Any White House employee covered by such section 
1312(d)(3)(D) pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a) shall, 
for purposes of carrying out such section, to the greatest extent 
practicable be treated in the same manner as Members of Congress and 
congressional staff (as those terms are defined in such section).
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