To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.
Latest action · Apr 23, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 8, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Delays until January 1, 2016, the effective date of any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or of any health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 that were scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to postpone until FY2014 the automatic reductions to eliminate the excess budget deficit (sequestration). Prohibits the President from issuing an order to carry out any sequestration that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget estimates is required for FY2013.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 12, 2013 to Feb 26, 2013.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-GA | Lynn A. Westmoreland | Feb 12, 2013 | |
| R-TX | Ralph M. Hall | Feb 12, 2013 | |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Feb 12, 2013 | |
| R-CA | Howard P. "Buck" McKeon | Feb 13, 2013 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Feb 13, 2013 | |
| R-VA | Robert J. Wittman | Feb 13, 2013 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Feb 13, 2013 | |
| R-TX | Blake Farenthold | Feb 15, 2013 | |
| R-TX | John Abney Culberson | Feb 15, 2013 | |
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Feb 25, 2013 | |
| R-TX | K. Michael Conaway | Feb 25, 2013 | |
| R-TX | Kay Granger | Feb 25, 2013 | |
| R-OH | Steve Stivers | Feb 25, 2013 | |
| R-KS | Lynn Jenkins | Feb 26, 2013 |
Committees 9
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2013 | |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2013 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 19, 2013 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Feb 21, 2013 | |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 8, 2013 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
- Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Feb 21, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Feb 19, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 8, 2013Introduced in House
- Feb 8, 2013Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, Appropriations, House Administration, and 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.
- Feb 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H432.
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2013Introduced in House
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