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	<form>
		<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code>
		<congress>111th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session>1st Session</session>
		<legis-num>H. R. 3971</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20091029">October 29, 2009</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="F000444">Mr. Flake</sponsor> 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>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the
		  permissible use of health savings accounts to include health insurance payments
		  and to increase the dollar limitation for contributions to health savings
		  accounts, and for other purposes.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body id="H231F5A2D6D99476FBE4763F39B95A304" style="OLC">
		<section id="HB01CA7C5D04748CCADCF9782CD8EBF61" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title, etc</header>
			<subsection id="HDDE7210EA9A542E29FEB55D0C0D0ED45"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short
			 title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This Act may be cited
			 as the <quote><short-title>Health Savings Account
			 Expansion Act of 2009</short-title></quote>.</text>
			</subsection><subsection id="H4BD80B6E0DD948939B0ED619E7BA65D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Table of
			 contents</header><text>The table of contents for this Act is as follows:</text>
				<toc container-level="legis-body-container" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration">
					<toc-entry idref="HB01CA7C5D04748CCADCF9782CD8EBF61" level="section">Sec. 1. Short title, etc.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H9C9B5F07DF1A4A84929BCC46445DEB19" level="title">Title I—Expansion of health savings accounts</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H74519CB530334D4D9844E054899395F3" level="section">Sec. 101. Repeal of high deductible health plan
				requirement.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="HCF3528F00C5C408DA58672F3CF0B4FC1" level="section">Sec. 102. Health insurance may be purchased from
				account.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H960D256B10D644BB853F7C3AA983E35F" level="section">Sec. 103. Increase in dollar limitation.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H8E61CF9894184C6496ED03E1DEB6227D" level="section">Sec. 104. Effective date.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H8D52D0ABD8DD413F9C462D9973711A11" level="title">Title II—Termination of existing health-related tax preferences
				for medical coverage, medical care, etc</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="H5FAABE71DDE24FAF8B3D7F5A55AEA108" level="section">Sec. 201. Termination of existing health-related tax
				preferences for medical coverage, medical care, etc.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry idref="HB6C34819D81F4EB781E0ED75D0B2E7C4" level="section">Sec. 202. Termination of employer deduction for health
				coverage.</toc-entry>
				</toc>
			</subsection></section><title id="H9C9B5F07DF1A4A84929BCC46445DEB19"><enum>I</enum><header>Expansion of
			 health savings accounts</header>
			<section id="H74519CB530334D4D9844E054899395F3"><enum>101.</enum><header>Repeal of high
			 deductible health plan requirement</header>
				<subsection id="HF3A5C0E281B44B2E9FC8EAC9E800DDBF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text>Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is
			 amended by striking subsection (c) and redesignating subsections (d) through
			 (h) as subsections (c) through (g), respectively.</text>
				</subsection><subsection id="H984F89D15F4A4D7EB24AE8FC2F803D99"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendments</header>
					<paragraph id="H860741FC24CE46E694015240B0DB449E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection (a) of
			 section 223 of such Code is amended to read as follows:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA3F7F7C6E937492DBFC5E9D1BFE6BFEF" style="OLC">
							<subsection id="H3972302A7F634C09AE6578C4C5CF60D6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Deduction
				allowed</header><text>In the case of an individual, there shall be allowed as a
				deduction for a taxable year an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in
				cash during such taxable year by or on behalf of such individual to a health
				savings account of such
				individual.</text>
							</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H7B18E277E6AA4E26A9C92D84AA175A56"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Subsection (b) of
			 section 223 of such Code is amended by striking paragraph (8).</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="HA2749A610C1D4999B1F8D3BF096EF5C1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Subparagraph (A)
			 of section 223(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as redesignated by
			 subsection (a)) is amended—</text>
						<subparagraph id="H8921F7428D9E41C992CC3BB5F564945B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
			 <quote>subsection (f)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection
			 (e)(5)</quote>, and</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H94D738DAB8B647CF9F59C7BB60635256"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause
			 (ii)—</text>
							<clause id="H626BE0FDDE9845008EE98200DBBBDF13"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
			 striking <quote>the sum of—</quote> and all that follows and inserting
			 <quote>the dollar amount in effect under subsection (b)(1).</quote>.</text>
							</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H744E539F01DC4217B460D5DFD987DCD4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 223(f)(1)
			 of such Code (as redesignated by subsection (a)) is amended by striking
			 <quote>Each dollar amount in subsections (b)(2) and (c)(2)(A)</quote> and
			 inserting <quote>In the case of a taxable year beginning after December 31,
			 2010, each dollar amount in subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H0EFA8AE146D54A98B11784AA692E1186"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 26(b)(U)
			 of such Code is amended by striking <quote>section 223(f)(4)</quote> and
			 inserting <quote>section 223(e)(4)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H090019EEACCC4DD993603E07BB2B9208"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Sections 35(g)(3),
			 220(f)(5)(A), 848(e)(1)(v), 4973(a)(5), and 6051(a)(12) of such Code are each
			 amended by striking <quote>section 223(d)</quote> each place it appears and
			 inserting <quote>section 223(c)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H8611C6BCEBEF4E5E848EBEFC1BABB88A"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 106(d)(1)
			 of such Code is amended—</text>
						<subparagraph id="HE49BB4750DAC4C05B243E57B34FBCCF5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
			 <quote>who is an eligible individual (as defined in section 223(c)(1))</quote>,
			 and</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7BFCAB8E8F1B42F485F8B7EE4E9A0A82"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
			 <quote>section 223(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(c)</quote>.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H5DD75BD74BDA4012AE8723A27B58D8FE"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Section 408(d)(9)
			 of such Code is amended—</text>
						<subparagraph commented="no" id="H57EFB29853A647158CD703B950D4B41A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
			 (A) by striking <quote>who is an eligible individual (as defined in section
			 223(c)) and</quote>, and</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HB6A79C64D0194DF5AB1B571DD8B1C61D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
			 (C) by striking <quote>computed on the basis of the type of coverage under the
			 high deductible health plan covering the individual at the time of the
			 qualified HSA funding distribution</quote>.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H165771812D324B2EBB23886A1A092ED1"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Section 877A(g)(6)
			 of such Code is amended by striking <quote>223(f)(4)</quote> and inserting
			 <quote>223(e)(4)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H192DF3C26B374DD5B963972A94B3019A"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Section 4973(g)
			 of such Code is amended—</text>
						<subparagraph id="H1265031C26A84A11BE29A72595B1E9C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
			 <quote>section 223(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(c)</quote>,</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4FA46A1D3EA74D1A89146D55C2B92E34"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
			 by striking <quote>section 223(f)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(e)(2)</quote>, and</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H70FEAC34974E4241A71552B62F02D8CD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
			 <quote>section 223(f)(3)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(e)(3)</quote>.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD86392D0811F495ABEF43FD953E58088"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Section 4975 of
			 such Code is amended—</text>
						<subparagraph id="HAA1CBD3C88A54AB6825F955D48D356F9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection
			 (c)(6)—</text>
							<clause id="HD035C6679C6B486BADA6B875593DB847"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
			 striking <quote>section 223(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(c)</quote>, and</text>
							</clause><clause id="HB95CA065960345BCBD4A18E47B166DF6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
			 striking <quote>section 223(e)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
			 223(d)(2)</quote>, and</text>
							</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H02479E5EF85E41A3B6DA780ACC350563"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection
			 (e)(1)(E), by striking <quote>section 223(d)</quote> and inserting
			 <quote>section 223(c)</quote>.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HE1E0060E415E4CFCAF3AACA267016053"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Section
			 6693(a)(2)(C) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>section 223(h)</quote>
			 and inserting <quote>section 223(g)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HCF3528F00C5C408DA58672F3CF0B4FC1"><enum>102.</enum><header>Health
			 insurance may be purchased from account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (2) of section 223(d) of the
			 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text>
				<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08B0A2EE327A49C3B090C8C69561EF23" style="OLC">
					<paragraph id="HD97459EFF5924ADEB1926387B07A4FAC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualified
				medical expenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
				<term>qualified medical expenses</term> means, with respect to an account
				beneficiary, amounts paid by such beneficiary for medical care (as defined in
				section 213(d)) for such individual, the spouse of such individual, and any
				dependent (as defined in section 152, determined without regard to subsections
				(b)(1), (b)(2), and (d)(1)(B) thereof) of such individual, but only to the
				extent such amounts are not compensated for by insurance or
				otherwise.</text>
					</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
			</section><section id="H960D256B10D644BB853F7C3AA983E35F"><enum>103.</enum><header>Increase in
			 dollar limitation</header>
				<subsection id="H34B539003BDF4AF097BA0B50EF6A3B05"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 223(b) of the Internal Revenue
			 Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>the sum of the monthly</quote> and
			 all that follows through <quote>eligible individual</quote> and inserting
			 <quote>$8,000 ($16,000 in the case of a joint return)</quote>.</text>
				</subsection><subsection id="H1370283E7BE34718954C92EFC7FB6ED8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendments</header>
					<paragraph id="H87BB4CE70DD84A2EBC3F2D84FA57A5BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection (b) of
			 such Code is amended by striking paragraphs (2), (3), and (5) and by
			 redesignating paragraphs (4), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4),
			 respectively.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H7BC66E09E5E34A889ECF347F82FA1442"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Paragraph (2) of
			 section 223(b) of such Code (as redesignated by paragraph (1)) is amended by
			 striking the last sentence.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="HE6DB37D6B2CA4710BD0C03DEB414B335"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Paragraph (4) of
			 section 223(b) of such Code (as redesignated by paragraph (1)) is amended to
			 read as follows:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB06C408B437F4BEA9DC4386C8B009CA6" style="OLC">
							<paragraph id="HA96F51E206104449905E5B2478FB6F8B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Medicare
				eligible individuals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
				limitation under this subsection for any taxable year with respect to an
				individual shall—</text>
								<subparagraph id="H0F562CC6E39D4057BB821795C2260D83"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of the
				first taxable year in which such individual is entitled to benefits under title
				XVIII of the Social Security Act, be the amount which bears the same proportion
				to the amount in effect under paragraph (1) with respect to such individual
				as—</text>
									<clause id="HB55DFCE8B9B24100BCECD0662EF30BEE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the number of
				months in the taxable year during which such individual was not so entitled,
				bears</text>
									</clause><clause id="H1BC91EA271D24F2E825E385F7A89A1E7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to 12, and</text>
									</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0E8B52EFAE4A495FB40F49E16E63C2D8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>be zero for any
				taxable year
				thereafter.</text>
								</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H55B659D004ED4BE183397127CB05500C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Subparagraph (B)
			 of section 223(f)(1) of such Code (as redesignated by section 101) is amended
			 to read as follows:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H095E8E9D894F4D0CADDC760B96165DE5" style="OLC">
							<subparagraph id="H9A554EF97B9D498FA177E7D57ED0CABA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost-of-living adjustment determined
				under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which such taxable year begins
				determined by substituting <quote>calendar year 2009</quote> for
				<quote>calendar year
				1992</quote>.</text>
							</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H8E61CF9894184C6496ED03E1DEB6227D"><enum>104.</enum><header>Effective
			 date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amendments made by
			 this title shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the
			 enactment of this Act.</text>
			</section></title><title id="H8D52D0ABD8DD413F9C462D9973711A11"><enum>II</enum><header>Termination of
			 existing health-related tax preferences for medical coverage, medical care,
			 etc</header>
			<section id="H5FAABE71DDE24FAF8B3D7F5A55AEA108"><enum>201.</enum><header>Termination of
			 existing health-related tax preferences for medical coverage, medical care,
			 etc</header>
				<subsection id="HC50C56FC6B5C43E09B4E468327A58582"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amounts received
			 under accident and health plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 105 of the Internal Revenue Code of
			 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBBA56BB25E0C47B592191F7269E7A099" style="OLC">
						<subsection id="H09636CE3772B43F781EC59C38AAF9B4B"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall not apply to taxable
				years beginning after December 31,
				2009.</text>
						</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection><subsection id="H752D61F63CE1453986634FC51E122135"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contributions by
			 employer to accident and health plans</header>
					<paragraph id="HCD5FF2D6FBAD459D8B23DD51998CF901"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text>Section 106 of such Code is amended by adding at the end
			 the following:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B33E2DB4532407888F0BB4D5851BF77" style="OLC">
							<subsection id="HE1FEE688E41540E5A9105386384BAD52"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall not apply to taxable
				years beginning after December 31,
				2009.</text>
							</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H9B1BD72A75DB4ED082FF4A56FF097A38"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendment</header><text>Subparagraph (B) of section 223(b)(2) of such Code, as
			 amended by section 103 of this Act, is amended by striking <quote>which is
			 excludable from the taxpayer’s gross income for such taxable year under section
			 106(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>which would have been excludable from the
			 taxpayer’s gross income for such taxable year under section 106(d) (determined
			 as if such section was in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the
			 <short-title>Health Savings Account Expansion Act of
			 2009</short-title>)</quote>.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H64D16EEDF06A4F1C8E5E6482D0FA6827"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Special rules
			 for health insurance costs of self-Employed individuals</header><text>Paragraph
			 (1) of section 162(l) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the
			 following new subparagraph:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B1BE595B3A64FE39A9230E911AB0447" style="OLC">
						<subparagraph id="H3D8BF16FE39C4E8EADDAC47F53F9EA98"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Years after
				2009</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any
				taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 2009, the applicable percentage
				shall be
				zero.</text>
						</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection><subsection id="HE712771E96854D66AD0603D44F217A14"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Medical, dental,
			 etc., expenses</header><text>Section 213 of such Code is amended by adding at
			 the end the following:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCC37BFEF35BC4AE195312B6CC996112A" style="OLC">
						<subsection id="HEACC102679EF47CFA11035AA195AF1AA"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall not apply to taxable
				years beginning after December 31,
				2009.</text>
						</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection><subsection id="H14D609A454994AFA99459A5ECB7B7E99"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective
			 date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the
			 date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
				</subsection></section><section id="HB6C34819D81F4EB781E0ED75D0B2E7C4"><enum>202.</enum><header>Termination of
			 employer deduction for health coverage</header>
				<subsection id="HA3341AC77B3D415A8387057289F9C7E2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 162 of the
			 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subsection (q) as
			 subsection (r) and by inserting after subsection (p) the following new
			 subsection:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6D1D8DEFE934A29B4B29E5B1A573A84" style="OLC">
						<subsection id="H6C94EA5A70BB4BDC8ACE5E53B55EE903"><enum>(q)</enum><header>Denial of
				deduction for medical care</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No
				deduction shall be allowed under this chapter to an employer for any amount
				paid or incurred with respect to an employee, his spouse, and dependents during
				the taxable year—</text>
							<paragraph id="H6608E7F7429C48D9BBDC6F0658461DD0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for insurance
				which constitutes medical care,</text>
							</paragraph><paragraph id="H946BC422C35C427088CCEC7DBEF08228"><enum>(2)</enum><text>under a health
				flexible spending arrangement or health reimbursement arrangement,</text>
							</paragraph><paragraph id="H31E991D4DA1041A9A69D12E94B709709"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to an Archer MSA
				or a health savings account, or</text>
							</paragraph><paragraph id="H7299DC0EF8E74DF58DBB821D2101C13A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>under any other
				arrangement under which the employer provides medical care, directly or
				indirectly, to the employee, spouse, or
				dependent.</text>
							</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection><subsection id="H620F7267D9C44011AEF117F42E88547E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
			 date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to taxable
			 years beginning after December 31, 2009.</text>
				</subsection></section></title></legis-body>
</bill>
