[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1693 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1693

 To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the 
                    initial open enrollment period.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 13, 2013

  Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
 Merkley, and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was 
          read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the 
                    initial open enrollment period.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``ACA Enrollment Extension Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD.

    (a) Extension.--Section 1311(c)(6)(A) of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(c)(6)(A)) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(A) an initial open enrollment period, to close 
                on a date determined appropriate by the Secretary of 
                Health and Human Services, and which shall be the later 
                of--
                            ``(i) May 31, 2014; or
                            ``(ii) a later date determined by the 
                        Secretary after considering the progress made 
                        on improving the functionality of the 
                        Federally-facilitated health insurance 
                        marketplace and related factors;''.
    (b) Extension for Other Plans.--Section 2702(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-1(b)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(4) Initial open enrollment period.--A health insurance 
        issuer described in subsection (a) that provides health 
        insurance coverage in the individual market shall provide for 
        an initial open enrollment or special enrollment period 
        applicable to such coverage that begins on the effective date 
        of this section and ends on the date determined by the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 
        1311(c)(6)(A) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
        Act.''.
    (c) Nonapplication of Penalty.--Section 5000A(c) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Application to 2014.--For purposes of 
                imposing a penalty under this section for taxable year 
                2014, the amount of the penalty to be imposed shall not 
                include any month ending prior to the closing date 
                determined by the Secretary of Health and Human 
                Services under section 1311(c)(6)(A) of the Patient 
                Protection and Affordable Care Act.''.
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