Employer Relief Act of 2018
Latest action · Aug 28, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 702.
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.
- IntroducedDec 12, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend the employer mandate for health insurance coverage until January 1, 2019.
The bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay for one year, until after December 31, 2020, the implementation of the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage (commonly referred to as the Cadillac tax).
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 12, 2017 to Jul 11, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Mike Kelly | Original | Dec 12, 2017 |
| R-IN | Luke Messer | Dec 14, 2017 | |
| R-NC | Mark Meadows | Feb 26, 2018 | |
| R-NE | Adrian Smith | Jul 11, 2018 |
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 Dec 12, 2017Markup Jul 11, 2018Reported Aug 28, 2018 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 28, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 115-906.
- Aug 28, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 702.
- Jul 11, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 11, 2018Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
- Dec 12, 2017Introduced in House
- Dec 12, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
In the Congressional Record 2
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.
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
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jul 27, 2018H.R. 4616, Employer Relief Act of 2018As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on July 11, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 202, December 12, 2017, page H9845.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for a temporary moratorium on the employer mandate and to provide for a delay in the implementation of the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Employer Relief Act of 2018
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 28, 2018Reported in House
- Dec 12, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
