Family Health Care Flexibility Act

Bill: 113-s-610
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]
Introduced: 2013-03-19
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Health care costs and insurance

Prescription drugs
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-19
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Family Health Care Flexibility Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that: (1) restrict payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs and insulin only (thus allowing payments for over-the-counter medications); and (2) impose a $2,500 limitation on salary reduction contributions to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan. </p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 610 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 19, 2013 Mr. Johanns (for himself, Mr. Inhofe , Mr. Portman , Mr. Blunt , Ms. Collins , Mr. Burr , Mr. Wicker , Mr. Roberts , Mr. Coburn , Mr. Cochran , Mr. Chambliss , Mr. Isakson , Mr. Boozman , and Mr. Barrasso ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal certain limitations on health care benefits.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Family Health Care Flexibility Act . 2. Repeal of distributions for medicine qualified only if for prescribed drug or insulin Section 9003 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) and the amendments made by such section are repealed; and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied as if such section, and amendments, had never been enacted. 3. Repeal of limitation on health flexible spending arrangements under cafeteria plans Sections 9005 and 10902 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) and section 1403 of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ) and the amendments made by such sections are repealed.