[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 38 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 38

  To ensure that long-term unemployed individuals are not taken into 
   account for purposes of the employer health care coverage mandate.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 7, 2015

  Mr. Thune (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
   Inhofe, Mr. Isakson, Mrs. Fischer, and Mr. Blunt) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that long-term unemployed individuals are not taken into 
   account for purposes of the employer health care coverage mandate.

    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 ``Helping Individuals Regain 
Employment Act''.

SEC. 2. LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR 
              EMPLOYER HEALTH CARE COVERAGE MANDATE.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (4) of section 4980H(c) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Exception for long-term unemployed 
                individuals.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The term `full-time 
                        employee' shall not include any individual who 
                        is a long-term unemployed individual with 
                        respect to such employer.
                            ``(ii) Long-term unemployed individual.--
                        For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 
                        `long-term unemployed individual' means, with 
                        respect to any employer, an individual who--
                                    ``(I) begins employment with such 
                                employer after the date of the 
                                enactment of this subparagraph, and
                                    ``(II) has been unemployed for 27 
                                weeks or longer, as determined by the 
                                Secretary of Labor, immediately before 
                                the date such employment begins.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to months beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.
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