Health Insurance Relief for Unemployed Individuals and Families

Bill: 116-s-3696
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2020-05-12
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Income tax credits

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Health Insurance Relief for Unemployed Individuals and Families</b></p> <p>This bill requires the disregard of additional unemployment insurance paid under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act in determining eligibility for and the amount of the tax credit for health care premium assistance and for means tested federal benefit programs. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3696 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 12, 2020 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Brown , and Mr. Markey ) 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 disregard additional unemployment compensation for purposes of premium tax credit and cost-sharing subsidies, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Relief for Unemployed Individuals and Families . 2. Disregard of additional unemployment compensation for purposes of premium tax credit and cost-sharing subsidies (a) In general Section 36B(d)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (1) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) as subclauses (I), (II), and (III), respectively, and by moving such subclauses 2 ems to the right; (2) by striking adjusted gross income increased by and inserting adjusted gross income— (i) decreased by the amount of any Federal pandemic unemployment compensation paid to an individual under section 2104 of division A of the CARES Act during the taxable year, and; and (ii) increased by— ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new flush sentence: Clause (i) shall not apply to the extent that such decrease results in a household income for the taxpayer which is less than 100 percent of the poverty line for a family of the size involved. . (b) Temporary suspension of recapture of excess advance payments Section 36B(f)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (C) Special rule for 2020 and 2021 Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to any taxable year beginning in 2020 or 2021. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.