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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 3797 ENR: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an alternative manner of furnishing certain health insurance coverage statements to individuals.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>3797</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an alternative manner of furnishing certain health insurance coverage statements to individuals.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d378e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/3797/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Paperwork Burden Reduction Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d378e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/3797/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ALTERNATIVE MANNER OF FURNISHING CERTAIN HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE STATEMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539d89a-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/3797/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Reporting of Health Insurance Coverage<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Section 6055(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:<quotedContent><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffab-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">“(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Alternative manner of furnishing statements<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, any person required to make a return under subsection (a) shall be treated as timely furnishing the written statement required under paragraph (1) if—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffac-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">“(A) </num><content>such person provides clear, conspicuous, and accessible notice (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may provide) that any individual to whom a statement would otherwise be required to be furnished under paragraph (1) may request a copy of such statement, and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffad-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>such person, on request of any such individual, furnishes a copy of such statement to such individual not later than the later of—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffae-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><content>January 31 of the year following the calendar year for which the return under subsection (a) was required to be made, or</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffaf-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>30 days after the date of such request.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent>.</content></subsection><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y7539ffb0-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/3797/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Certain Employers Required to Report on Health Insurance Coverage<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Section 6056(c) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:<quotedContent><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c1-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">“(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Alternative manner of furnishing statements<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, any person required to make a return under subsection (a) shall be treated as timely furnishing the written statement required under paragraph (1) if—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c2-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">“(A) </num><content>such person provides clear, conspicuous, and accessible notice (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may provide) that any individual to whom a statement would otherwise be required to be furnished under paragraph (1) may request a copy of such statement, and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c3-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>such person, on request of any such individual, furnishes a copy of such statement to such individual not later than the later of—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c4-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><content>January 31 of the year following the calendar year for which the return under subsection (a) was required to be made, or</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c5-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>30 days after the date of such request.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent>.</content></subsection><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y753a26c6-b8f8-11ef-84f1-f58c012c669a" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/3797/s2/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Effective Date<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply to statements with respect to returns for calendar years after 2023.</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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