HR 210 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016

Introduced Jan 8, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Mark Meadows R-NC

Latest action · Jul 5, 2016 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 506.

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.

IntroducedJan 8, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Cosponsors 33

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 8, 2015 to Jun 15, 2016; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-SC	Jeff Duncan	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-OH	Michael R. Turner	Original	Jan 8, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-IN	Todd Rokita	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Jan 8, 2015
R-MS	Alan Nunnelee		Jan 13, 2015
R-SC	Tom Rice		Jan 13, 2015
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Jan 21, 2015
R-IN	Luke Messer		Jan 21, 2015

Show all 33 cosponsors

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 Jan 8, 2015Markup Jun 15, 2016Reported Jul 5, 2016

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 5, 2016Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-655.
Jul 5, 2016Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 506.
Jun 15, 2016Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jun 15, 2016Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Jan 8, 2015Introduced in House
Jan 8, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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.

Committee report

H. Rept. 114-655

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Jun 30, 2016H.R. 210, Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 15, 2016

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, which empowers Congress, in part, to ``lay and collect Taxes'' and ``provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States . . .'' The bill will exempt certain educational institutions from taxes imposed by public Law 111-148, as amended. Congress has the power to repeal such taxes and provide for the general welfare of those who have been and will be harmed by their imposition.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 3, January 8, 2015, page H156.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
—	TAX-RELATED PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE89 pages	Ways and Means Committee	May 17, 2016
—	MEMBER PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE U.S. TAX SYSTEM338 pages	Ways and Means Committee	May 12, 2016

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R43981	The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Employer Shared Responsibility Determination and the Potential Employer Penalty Archived	Report	Apr 22, 2016

Related bills 2

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 520	Student Job Protection Act of 2015	Related bill	Feb 27, 2015
S 3463	Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016	Identical bill	Sep 29, 2016

Titles 3

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt student workers for purposes of determining a higher education institution's employer health care shared responsibility.
Short Titles as Introduced: Student Worker Exemption Act of 2015
Short Titles as Reported to House: Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016

Subjects

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

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 5, 2016Reported in House
Jan 8, 2015Introduced in House

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