[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 137 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5582]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5059. Mr. SASSE (for himself, Mr. Cotton, and Mr. McCain) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
2848, to provide for the conservation and development of water and 
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct 
various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the end, insert the following:

     SEC. 8003. EXEMPTION FROM INDIVIDUAL MANDATE PENALTY OF 
                   PARTICIPANTS IN TERMINATED PLANS UNDER CONSUMER 
                   OPERATED AND ORIENTED PLAN PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (e) of section 5000A of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(6) Participants in certain terminated consumer operated 
     and oriented plan program plans.--Any applicable individual, 
     if--
       ``(A) the individual was enrolled in a qualified health 
     plan offered by a qualified nonprofit health insurance issuer 
     (as defined in subsection (c) of section 1322 of the Patient 
     Protection and Affordable Care Act) receiving funds through 
     the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan program established 
     under such section for such plan, and
       ``(B) during any month while the individual was so 
     enrolled, such issuer terminated or otherwise discontinued 
     providing all plans of the issuer in the area in which the 
     individual resides,

     for such month and any subsequent month.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall apply to months in taxable years beginning after 
     December 31, 2013.
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