Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-5147
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-17
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2014-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require health care exchanges to provide a 60-day special enrollment period for uninsured individuals eligible to enroll in exchange health plans who are subject to a penalty for not maintaining minimum essential coverage in 2014.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5147 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2014 Mrs. Kirkpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To provide certain uninsured individuals a special enrollment period after tax filing in 2015 for enrollment in qualified health plans offered through an Exchange, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act . 2. Special enrollment period for certain uninsured individuals after tax filing period in 2015 (a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require that Exchanges established under title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) provide to qualified uninsured individuals a 60-day special enrollment period that begins on April 15, 2015 (or, if earlier, on the date such individual files an income tax return applicable to the first taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2014). (b) Qualified uninsured individual defined In this section, the term qualified uninsured individual means an individual who— (1) is eligible, but who has not elected, to enroll in a qualified health plan offered through an Exchange established under title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) during the open enrollment period for 2015; and (2) is liable for a penalty under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to any month in 2014.