[House Document 114-64]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





114th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 114-64
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   SOCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CZECH 
                                RUPUBLIC

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

  A SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY 
 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC SIGNED AT 
  PRAGUE ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2013, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1); SSA, 
                             SEC. 233(e)(1)

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   October 6, 2015.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed
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                         U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 

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To the Congress of the United States:
    Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, 
as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977 (Public 
Law 95-216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith the 
Supplementary Agreement Amending the Agreement on Social 
Security between the United States of America and the Czech 
Republic (the ``Supplementary Agreement''). The Supplementary 
Agreement, signed at Prague on September 23, 2013, is intended 
to modify a certain provision of the Agreement on Social 
Security between the United States of America and the Czech 
Republic, with Administrative Arrangement, signed at Prague on 
September 7, 2007, and entered into force January 1, 2009 (the 
``U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement'').
    The U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement as amended by the 
Supplementary Agreement is similar in objective to the social 
security agreements already in force with most European Union 
countries, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Norway, and the 
Republic of Korea. Such bilateral agreements provide for 
limited coordination between the United States and foreign 
social security systems to eliminate dual social security 
coverage and taxation, and to help prevent the lost benefit 
protection that can occur when workers divide their careers 
between two countries.
    The Supplementary Agreement amends the U.S.-Czech Social 
Security Agreement to account for a new Czech domestic health 
insurance law, which was enacted subsequent to the signing of 
the U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement in 2007. By including 
the health insurance law within the scope of the U.S.-Czech 
Social Security Agreement, this amendment will exempt U.S. 
citizen workers and multinational companies from contributing 
to the Czech health insurance system, when such workers 
otherwise meet all of the ordinary criteria for such an 
exemption.
    The U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement, as amended, will 
continue to contain all provisions mandated by section 233 of 
the Social Security Act and other provisions that I deem 
appropriate to carry out the purposes of section 233, pursuant 
to section 233(c)(4) of the Social Security Act.
    I also transmit for the information of the Congress a 
report required by section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act 
on the estimated number of individuals who will be affected by 
the Supplementary Agreement and its estimated cost effect. The 
Department of State and the Social Security Administration have 
recommended the Supplementary Agreement and related documents 
to me.
    I commend the Supplementary Agreement to the U.S.-Czech 
Social Security Agreement and related documents.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, October 6, 2015.
    
    
    
    
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