To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require employees of the White House to enroll in Obamacare, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-4004
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2017-10-10
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive Office of the President

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access
Latest action: action_date: 2017-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-10-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill requires White House employees, including employees in the Executive Office of the President, to obtain health coverage by a plan offered through a health insurance exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4004 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 10, 2017 Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , and in addition to the Committee on 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 amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require employees of the White House to enroll in Obamacare, and for other purposes.

1. Requirement for White House employees to enroll in Obamacare (a) In general Section 1312(d)(3)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) is amended— (1) in clause (i)— (A) by striking and congressional staff and inserting , congressional staff, and any White House employee ; and (B) by striking or congressional staff and inserting , congressional staff, or White House employee ; and (2) in clause (ii), by adding at the end the following: (III) White House employee The term White House employee means any employee (as that term is defined in section 2105 of title 5, United States Code) of the White House, including the Executive Office of the President. . (b) Application Any White House employee covered by such section 1312(d)(3)(D) pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a) shall, for purposes of carrying out such section, to the greatest extent practicable be treated in the same manner as Members of Congress and congressional staff (as those terms are defined in such section).