To bar Supreme Court decisions in certain Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases from citation.

Bill: 115-hr-177
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Judicial procedure and administration

Judicial review and appeals

Supreme Court
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill bars the Supreme Court from citing for the purpose of precedence [<em>sic</em>] in all future cases the following Supreme Court decisions concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:</p> <ul> <li><i>National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius</i>, </li> <li><i>King v. Burwell</i>, and </li> <li><i>Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc</i>.</li></ul> </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 177 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2017 Mr. King of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To bar Supreme Court decisions in certain Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases from citation.

1. Barring PPACA Supreme Court cases from citation Under Article 3, Section 2, which allows Congress to provide exceptions and regulations for Supreme Court consideration of cases and controversies, the following cases are barred from citation for the purpose of precedence in all future cases after enactment: Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius, 132 S. Ct. 2566, 2573, 183 L. Ed. 2d 450 (2012) and King v. Burwell, 135 S. Ct. 2480, 2485, 192 L. Ed. 2d 483 (2015) and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2751, 2782, 189 L. Ed. 2d 675 (2014).