[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3679 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3679

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibition 
   on payment of bonuses and pay increases for executives of a State 
    Exchange funded through Federal grants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2013

  Mr. Gardner (for himself and Mr. Coffman) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibition 
   on payment of bonuses and pay increases for executives of a State 
    Exchange funded through Federal grants, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF BONUSES AND PAY INCREASES FOR 
              EXCHANGE EXECUTIVES.

    Section 1311(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(42 U.S.C. 18031(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(6) Prohibition on payment of bonuses and pay increases 
        for exchange executives.--The Secretary shall provide that no 
        funds under a grant under this section may be used for a bonus 
        or pay increase (beyond the level of compensation in effect as 
        of October 1, 2013) for a chief executive officer, chief 
        information officer, chief operating officer, or similar 
        executive with respect to the operation of an Exchange on or 
        after October 1, 2013.''.
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