Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3463
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2016-09-29
Policy area: Taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2016-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-09-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Student Worker Exemption Act of </strong> <b>2016</b></p> <p> This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3463 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 29, 2016 Mr. Johnson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt student workers for purposes of determining a higher education institution’s employer health care shared responsibility.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016 . 2. Student workers exempted from determination of higher education institution’s employer health care shared responsibility (a) In general Subsection (c) of section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph: (5) Exception for student workers (A) In general Services rendered as a student worker to an eligible educational institution (as defined in section 25A(f)(2)) shall not be taken into account under this section as service provided by an employee. (B) Student worker For purposes of this paragraph, the term student worker means, with respect to any eligible educational institution (as so defined), any individual who— (i) is employed by such institution, and (ii) is a student enrolled at the institution and is carrying a full-time academic workload, as determined by the institution, under a standard applicable to all students enrolled in a particular educational program. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2015.