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<dc:title>119 HR 317 IH: Healthcare Freedom Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-01-09</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 317</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250109">January 9, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="R000614">Mr. Roy</sponsor> (for himself, <cosponsor name-id="W000814">Mr. Weber of Texas</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="C001118">Mr. Cline</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="B001316">Mr. Burlison</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="C001116">Mr. Clyde</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="G000596">Ms. Greene of Georgia</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="B001302">Mr. Biggs of Arizona</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="O000175">Mr. Ogles</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create health freedom accounts available to all individuals.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HFF17EE980E3A4822884F9BFF8A082791" style="OLC"><section id="H23D058A14421404ABE1B964BECBD04AE" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Healthcare Freedom Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="H102850EE5FBE4D4B86FD740DAE70858F"><enum>2.</enum><header>Health freedom accounts</header><subsection id="H2ED86A49C7E4412690670245A0EB8203"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/223">Section 223</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>health savings account</quote> and <quote>health savings accounts</quote> each place such terms appear and inserting <quote>health freedom account</quote> and <quote>health freedom accounts</quote>, respectively.</text></subsection><subsection id="H6A5216A107C740CCB45BCF29157244E8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>All individuals allowed deductions for contributions</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/223">Section 223(a)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>who is an eligible individual for any month during the taxable year</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H5F16BCDBC3C140AC8426032A90E7CBAE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>No limitation on purchasing health coverage from health freedom accounts</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/223">Section 223(d)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) and the last sentence of subparagraph (A) and by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAF5651E6D1F34250A77A941979E0D072" style="OLC"><subparagraph id="H8EBBC7ADAF40401499D34082A57D58FF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Additional expenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>qualified medical expenses</term> includes costs associated with direct primary care, health care sharing ministries, and medical cost sharing organizations.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HCF0602F28A3D43279712F96980A9C416"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transfers allowed to other health freedom accounts</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/223">Section 223(f)(5)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47F8D614DB744CB3A0DBFDE25C612468" style="OLC"><paragraph id="HFF8D51959FAA4BB483A3EF999CD10006"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Rollover contribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An amount paid or distributed from a health freedom account is a rollover contribution to the extent the amount received is paid into any other health freedom account not later than the 60th day after the date of such payment or distribution.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H721AD9ABBC8F44FB991D1D51DC0A015B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Increase in contribution limits</header><text>Section 223(b)(1) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the sum of the monthly</quote> and all that follows through <quote>eligible individual</quote> and inserting <quote>$12,000 (twice such amount in the case of a joint return)</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H77E4026211DE47E6913DD45676B0F668"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><paragraph id="H05D49388C9FA471BB3787EF5B8454FF3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 223(b) of such Code is amended by striking paragraphs (2), (5), (7), and (8) and by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (6) as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HA4AEE31008AF48CB875FD73EDB7FB9A7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 223(b)(2) of such Code (as redesignated by paragraph (2)) is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF8303511D64C42F3AE7AEBA4B7B4FD95" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H283073C3AFCA4F9D9EEB5C816753D032"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional contributions for individuals 55 or older</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who has attained age 55 before the close of the taxable year, the limitation under paragraph (1) shall be increased by $5,000.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H9CDFC7D0B3514A1B81D86044437643A2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 223(b)(3) of such Code (as redesignated by subparagraph (A)) is amended by striking the last sentence.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H78B38A35278C42B8BF29EA0A7E1C36D3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 223 of such Code is amended by striking subsection (c).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9A44442FBFA5479DB52ECA0FD9A2C412"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 223(d)(1)(A) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>will be accepted</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>will be accepted unless it is in cash.</quote>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HBEDC223A4BD94E34B9D3B6880F2D49FE"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 223(f) of such Code is amended by striking paragraphs (7) and (8).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H6ADCE19133BF45898446E9A6B8ABC030"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 223(g)(1) of such Code is amended—</text><subparagraph id="HAE0B23E31CD441A788AF20A5DF3ECADF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Each dollar amount in subsections (b)(2) and (c)(2)(A)</quote> and inserting <quote>The dollar amount in subsection (b)(1)</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H612BF0E9378942E099760B93EEE80833"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>thereof</quote> and all that follows in subparagraph (B) through <quote><quote>calendar year 2003</quote>.</quote> and inserting <quote><quote>calendar year 1997</quote>.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB615EF9B782D402BA92C0BDBBFA23D4B"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>under subsections (b)(2) and (c)(2)(A)</quote> and inserting <quote>under subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H20A76EF716B24ABC8E1CE88F97913F4D"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for part VII of subchapter B of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended in the item relating to section 223 by striking <quote>savings</quote> and inserting <quote>freedom</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H0D0A5B120A394E8DBB4DA6EA4890C17D"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to months in taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="HEF038A3FC8F441BE84780F6DAE76970E"><enum>3.</enum><header>Exclusion for employer contributions to health freedom accounts</header><subsection id="HCA2A35F85AB6474C8B9468D766D816CC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Employer exclusion</header><paragraph id="H21D7F94254454367B69F50F6D0D47928"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 106 the following new section:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C06DD801AE84429B6C605F257B1F250" style="OLC"><section id="H92AB4F50E98B444A8FE25930314AEBD0"><enum>106A.</enum><header>Contributions by employers to health freedom accounts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the case of any employee hired by an employer on or after the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this section, gross income of such employee does not include amounts contributed by such employer to a health freedom account of such employee.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H833DB7176AFD4AF1B67EE3350DF90EE9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusion for contributions by employer to accident and health plans</header><text>Section 106 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H7C43594AE4A8409DA73F5BE38BA400D5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><subsection id="H963D3DAECE8F49B8AAD467F84F0D333E"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any employee hired by an employer on or after the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this section, this section shall not apply to coverage provided by such employer with respect to such employee.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H539D32D088264C6FAE88D045A4BEFDBB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of sections for part III of subchapter B of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by striking the item relating to section 106 and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA4966540049F4BC8B9F26407FAC6E967" style="OLC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry level="section">Sec. 106A. Contributions by employers to health freedom accounts.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H0860FF61BAA34D18B801144074D70517"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect to employees hired on or after the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HAC5FE7A9F11448EC8904B8D6F3C6F94C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Transition rule</header><paragraph id="H9293E865A8404236AA018E5226F52984"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/106">Section 106(d)(1)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3159015799164E828897451F00E0CD31" style="OLC"><paragraph id="H5CAC2A5D3751411D810631CB7E013BD7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts contributed by an employee’s employer to any health freedom account (as defined in section 223(d)) of such employee shall be treated as employer-provided coverage for medical expenses under an accident or health plan.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H9F7870F163E547CF9F3BD05820A5ED68"><enum>(2)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The amendment made by this subsection shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

