To amend subtitle B of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to the territories.

Bill: 113-hr-81
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-01-03
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa

Caribbean area

Comprehensive health care

District of Columbia

Guam

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Northern Mariana Islands

Puerto Rico

U.S. territories and protectorates

Virgin Islands
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend to U.S. territories a program requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage to eligible individuals with a preexisting condition.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 81 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2013 Mrs. Christensen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend subtitle B of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to the territories.

1. Inclusion of territories in temporary high-risk insurance pool program (a) In general Section 1101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18001 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) State defined Notwithstanding section 1304(d), for purposes of this section the term State means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and any other territory or possession of the United States. . (b) Conforming amendment Section 1304(d) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18024(d) ) is amended by inserting (except for purposes of section 1101) after In this title .