[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6067 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6067

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from 
   the individual mandate for certain individuals without access to 
                           Exchange coverage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2016

Mrs. Black (for herself and Ms. McSally) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from 
   the individual mandate for certain individuals without access to 
                           Exchange coverage.

    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 ``Relief from Obamacare Exchange 
Failures Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM INDIVIDUAL MANDATE FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS 
              WITHOUT ACCESS TO EXCHANGE COVERAGE.

    (a) Exemption From Individual Health Insurance Mandate.--Section 
5000A(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) Certain individuals without access to exchange 
        coverage.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any applicable individual who 
                for any month--
                            ``(i) cannot obtain coverage under a 
                        qualified health plan through an Exchange 
                        established under title I of the Patient 
                        Protection and Affordable Care Act because no 
                        qualified health plan is offered to such 
                        individual through such an Exchange for such 
                        month,
                            ``(ii) is not eligible for coverage 
                        described in subsection (f)(1)(A) for such 
                        month, and
                            ``(iii) is not eligible for affordable 
                        employer-sponsored coverage for such month.
                    ``(B) Affordable employer-sponsored coverage.--For 
                purposes of this paragraph, the term `affordable 
                employer-sponsored coverage' means, with respect to any 
                individual for any month, coverage under any eligible 
                employer-sponsored plan if such individual's required 
                contribution (as determined under subsection 
                (e)(1)(B)(i)) for coverage for such month does not 
                exceed the applicable percentage of such individual's 
                household income for the taxable year (as determined 
                under subsection (e)(1)(A)).
                    ``(C) Applicable percentage.--For purposes of this 
                paragraph, the term `applicable percentage' means the 
                percentage in effect under subsection (e)(1).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to months beginning after December 31, 2016.
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