[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6215 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6215

     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt from the 
  individual health insurance mandate certain low-income individuals 
 residing in States that have not elected the Medicaid expansion under 
            the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2016

  Mr. Veasey 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 exempt from the 
  individual health insurance mandate certain low-income individuals 
 residing in States that have not elected the Medicaid expansion under 
            the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    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 ``Medicaid Gap Relief Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE FOR CERTAIN LOW-INCOME 
              INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN NON-MEDICAID-EXPANSION STATES.

    (a) In General.--Section 5000A(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or (4)'' and inserting 
        ``(4), or (5)'', and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Certain low-income individuals in non-medicaid-
        expansion states.--Such term shall not include an individual 
        for any month during which the individual--
                    ``(A) is described in section 
                1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the Social Security Act, and
                    ``(B) resides in a State that has not, for such 
                month, made medical assistance available to the 
                individuals described in such section under the State 
                plan under title XIX of such Act (or under a waiver of 
                such plan under section 1115 of such Act).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016.
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