HR 2088 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011

Introduced Jun 2, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Jim McDermott D-WA

Latest action · Jun 6, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJun 2, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from an employee's gross income employer-provided accident and health plan benefits extended to a domestic partner or non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiary eligible to receive such benefits under an employer plan (i.e., "eligible beneficiary"); (2) exempt such benefits paid to eligible beneficiaries from otherwise applicable employment and unemployment taxes; (3) allow self-employed individuals a tax deduction for the health insurance costs of their eligible beneficiaries; (4) allow tax-exempt voluntary employees' beneficiary associations to provide sick and accident benefits to the domestic partners and non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiaries of their members; (5) allow reimbursement of the medical expenses of an eligible beneficiary from a health savings account (HSA); and (6) extend tax-exempt medical benefits to the eligible beneficiaries of retired employees

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide guidance relating to reimbursements from a flexible spending arrangement and a health reimbursement arrangement attributable to an eligible beneficiary as defined by this Act.

Cosponsors 141

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 2, 2011 to Oct 12, 2012; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Jun 2, 2011
R-NY	Nan A. S. Hayworth	Original	Jun 2, 2011
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Jun 2, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Jun 15, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Jun 15, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Jun 15, 2011
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 11, 2011
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 14, 2011
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Jul 15, 2011
R-IL	Judy Biggert		Jul 28, 2011
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 7, 2011
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 7, 2011
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Sep 7, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Sep 7, 2011
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Sep 7, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 9, 2011
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 9, 2011
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Sep 15, 2011
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Sep 15, 2011
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Sep 15, 2011
D-CA	George Miller		Sep 21, 2011
D-WI	Ron Kind		Sep 21, 2011
D-WA	Adam Smith		Oct 3, 2011
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Oct 3, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Oct 3, 2011
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Oct 3, 2011
D-CT	James A. Himes		Oct 13, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Oct 13, 2011
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Oct 13, 2011
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 27, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Oct 27, 2011
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Oct 27, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis		Oct 27, 2011
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Oct 27, 2011
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Oct 27, 2011
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		Nov 2, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Nov 3, 2011
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Nov 3, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Nov 3, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Nov 14, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Nov 14, 2011
D-NC	David E. Price		Nov 14, 2011
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Dec 2, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 20, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Dec 20, 2011
D-CA	Joe Baca		Dec 20, 2011
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Dec 20, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Feb 13, 2012
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Feb 13, 2012
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Feb 13, 2012
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Feb 13, 2012
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 16, 2012
D-CA	Bob Filner		Mar 5, 2012
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Mar 5, 2012
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Mar 5, 2012
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Mar 5, 2012
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Mar 5, 2012
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Mar 5, 2012
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Mar 5, 2012
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Mar 5, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Mar 5, 2012
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Mar 9, 2012
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Mar 22, 2012
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Mar 29, 2012
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Mar 29, 2012
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Apr 17, 2012
D-MI	John D. Dingell		May 15, 2012
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		May 17, 2012
D-CA	Lois Capps		May 18, 2012
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jun 6, 2012
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Sep 10, 2012
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Sep 10, 2012
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Sep 10, 2012
D-IA	David Loebsack		Sep 10, 2012
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Sep 10, 2012
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 10, 2012
D-VA	James P. Moran		Sep 10, 2012
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Sep 10, 2012
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Sep 10, 2012
D-CA	Sam Farr		Sep 10, 2012
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Sep 10, 2012
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 10, 2012
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Sep 11, 2012
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Sep 11, 2012
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 11, 2012
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Sep 11, 2012
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Sep 11, 2012
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Sep 11, 2012
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Sep 11, 2012
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 11, 2012
D-CT	John B. Larson		Sep 11, 2012
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Sep 11, 2012
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Sep 11, 2012
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Sep 11, 2012
D-VT	Peter Welch		Sep 11, 2012
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Sep 11, 2012
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Sep 11, 2012
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 11, 2012
D-NC	Brad Miller		Sep 13, 2012
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 13, 2012
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Sep 13, 2012
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Sep 13, 2012
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Sep 13, 2012
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Sep 13, 2012
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Sep 13, 2012
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Sep 13, 2012
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Sep 13, 2012
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Sep 13, 2012
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Sep 13, 2012
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Sep 13, 2012
D-MA	Barney Frank		Sep 19, 2012
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Sep 19, 2012
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Sep 19, 2012
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Sep 19, 2012
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Sep 19, 2012
D-MA	John W. Olver		Sep 19, 2012
D-CA	Judy Chu		Sep 19, 2012
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Sep 19, 2012
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Sep 19, 2012
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		Sep 19, 2012
D-MA	William R. Keating		Sep 19, 2012
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Sep 19, 2012
D-CO	Jared Polis		Sep 21, 2012
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Sep 21, 2012
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 25, 2012
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Oct 12, 2012
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Oct 12, 2012

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jun 2, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 6, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 6, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 2, 2011Introduced in House
Jun 2, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1031)
Jun 2, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1031	Jim McDermott D-WA	Jun 2, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H3986.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1171	Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011	Identical bill	Jun 9, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees.
Short Titles as Introduced: Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 2, 2011Introduced in House

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