[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5904 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5904

   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deposit 
certain funds into the general fund of the Treasury in accordance with 
  provisions of Federal law with regard to the Patient Protection and 
        Affordable Care Act's Transitional Reinsurance Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2016

  Mr. Walker (for himself, Mr. Brat, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Jody B. Hice of 
    Georgia, and Mr. Buck) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
   the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deposit 
certain funds into the general fund of the Treasury in accordance with 
  provisions of Federal law with regard to the Patient Protection and 
        Affordable Care Act's Transitional Reinsurance Program.

    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 ``Taxpayers Before Insurers Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN REINSURANCE PROGRAM FUNDS INTO THE TREASURY.

    (a) In General.--If the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
fails to make deposits into the general fund of the Treasury of the 
United States--
            (1) in an amount equal to $2,000,000,000 for each of 
        calendar years 2014 and 2015, within 45 days of the date of 
        enactment of this Act, there shall be rescinded from amounts 
        appropriated for the general departmental management of the 
        Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services for fiscal 
        year 2016, an amount equal to 50 percent of the unexpended 
        balance of such amounts; and
            (2) in an amount equal to $1,000,000,000 for calendar year 
        2016, by March 1, 2017, there shall be rescinded from amounts 
        appropriated for the general departmental management of the 
        Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services for fiscal 
        year 2017, an amount equal to 50 percent of the unexpended 
        balance of such amounts.
    (b) Source of Funds.--The amounts to be deposited in accordance 
with subsection (a) shall be derived from contributions collected under 
the transitional reinsurance program under section 1341 of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18061).
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