Affordable Limited Health Coverage Act

Bill: 115-hr-552
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2017-01-13
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Labor

Department of the Treasury

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Affordable Limited Health Coverage Act</b></p> This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Labor from implementing the rule entitled &quot;Excepted Benefits; Lifetime and Annual Limits; and Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance&quot; as the rule relates to short-term, limited duration insurance. The departments must use the definition of &quot;short-term, limited duration insurance&quot; in use immediately prior to publication of the rule. (The rule requires the duration of short-term, limited-duration insurance to be less than three months, including renewals. Previously, such insurance was required to expire less than 12 months after its effective date.)

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 552 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 13, 2017 Mr. Fortenberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce , and Ways and Means , 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 prohibit implementation of the revised definition of short-term, limited duration insurance in order to permit such insurance to provide up to 12 months of coverage.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Affordable Limited Health Coverage Act . 2. Prohibiting implementation of the revised definition of short-term, limited duration insurance in order to permit such insurance to provide up to 12 months of coverage Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Labor may not take any action to implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the final rule, entitled Excepted Benefits; Lifetime and Annual Limits; and Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance (81 Fed. Reg. 75317–75319, October 31, 2016) insofar as such final rule relates to a revised definition of the term short-term, limited duration insurance and the Secretaries shall implement, enforce, and otherwise give effect to the definition of such term applied by the Secretaries immediately prior to the publication of such final rule.