[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 81 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 81

To amend subtitle B of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
 Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to 
                            the territories.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2013

 Mrs. Christensen introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend subtitle B of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
 Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to 
                            the territories.

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

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF TERRITORIES IN TEMPORARY HIGH-RISK INSURANCE 
              POOL PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 1101 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18001) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(h) State Defined.--Notwithstanding section 1304(d), for purposes 
of this section the term `State' means each of the 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands of the United States, and any other territory or possession of 
the United States.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1304(d) of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18024(d)) is amended by 
inserting ``(except for purposes of section 1101)'' after ``In this 
title''.
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