To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.

Bill: 113-hr-607
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2013-02-08
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Comprehensive health care

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-02-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Delays until January 1, 2016, the effective date of any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or of any health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 that were scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015.</p> <p>Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to postpone until FY2014 the automatic reductions to eliminate the excess budget deficit (sequestration). Prohibits the President from issuing an order to carry out any sequestration that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget estimates is required for FY2013.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 607 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 8, 2013 Mr. Thornberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget , and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce , Ways and Means , the Judiciary , Natural Resources , Rules , Appropriations , House Administration , and 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 A BILL To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.

1. Delay in certain PPACA provisions until 2016 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any provision of (including any amendment made by) the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) or of title I or subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 (Public Law 111–152) that is otherwise scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 shall not take effect until January 1, 2016. 2. Elimination of fiscal year 2013 sequestrations (a) Elimination of automatic section 251A sequestration for fiscal year 2013 Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended as follows: (1) (A) In paragraph (3), strike 2013 and insert 2014 . (B) In paragraph (3), insert and at the end of subparagraph (C), strike ; and and insert a period at the end of subparagraph (D), and strike subparagraph (E). (2) In paragraph (4), strike On March 1, 2013, for fiscal year 2013, and in and insert In . (3) In paragraph (5), strike 2013 and insert 2014 . (4) In paragraph (6), strike 2013 and insert 2014 . (5) In paragraph (7), strike subparagraph (A), strike (B) Fiscal years 2014-2021. , move the remaining text 2 ems to the left, strike (i) and insert (A) , and strike (ii) and insert (B) . (b) Elimination of sequestration under section 251 for fiscal year 2013 Notwithstanding section 254(f)(5) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President shall not issue an order under such section to carry out any sequestration that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget estimates is required for fiscal year 2013.