Title: No Health Care, No Raise Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
No Health Care, No Raise Act
This bill allows an automatic pay adjustment for Members of Congress in a year only if the Department of Health and Human Services certifies that, as of October 1 of the previous year, all citizens are enrolled in health insurance coverage that provides essential health benefits.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3271 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3271

  To prohibit cost of living adjustments in pay rates for Members of 
 Congress unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies 
that all citizens of the United States are enrolled in health insurance 
   coverage that provides a package of benefits that is at least as 
comprehensive as the essential health benefits package described in the 
              Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2019

   Mr. Harder of California introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to 
the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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 prohibit cost of living adjustments in pay rates for Members of 
 Congress unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies 
that all citizens of the United States are enrolled in health insurance 
   coverage that provides a package of benefits that is at least as 
comprehensive as the essential health benefits package described in the 
              Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    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 ``No Health Care, No Raise Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING ADJUSTMENT IN PAY RATES FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 
              UNLESS ALL CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES ARE ENROLLED IN 
              COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.

    (a) In General.--Section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(2)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(C) An adjustment in rates of pay may be made under this 
paragraph in a year only if the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
certifies that, as of October 1 of the previous year, all citizens of 
the United States are enrolled in health insurance coverage that 
provides a package of benefits that is at least as comprehensive as the 
essential health benefits package described in section 1302(a) of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18022(a)).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 601(a)(2)(A) of such Act (2 
U.S.C. 4501(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``Subject to subparagraph 
(B),'' and inserting ``Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C),''.
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