[House Report 114-13]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


114th Congress  }                                       {        Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session    }                                       {        114-13

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   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 596) TO REPEAL THE 
  PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND HEALTH CARE-RELATED 
PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010, 
                         AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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  February 2, 2015.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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               Mr. Burgess, from the Committee on Rules, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 70]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 70, by a record vote of 7 to 2, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 596, to 
repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and 
health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education 
Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other purposes, under a 
closed rule. The resolution provides 90 minutes of debate 
equally divided among and controlled by the respective chairs 
and ranking minority members of the Committees on Education and 
the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill. The resolution provides that the amendment printed in 
this report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as 
amended, shall be considered as read. The resolution waives all 
points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. The 
resolution provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions.

                         EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill, the Committee is not aware of any 
points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
provisions in the bill, as amended, the Committee is not aware 
of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature.
    It is important to note that a CBO cost estimate of the 
legislation was not available at the time of the preparation of 
this report, as a result, the chair of the Committee on the 
Budget has not advised the committee on possible budget related 
points of order.

                            COMMITTEE VOTES

    The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion 
to report, together with the names of those voting for and 
against, are printed below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 19

    Motion by Mr. McGovern to report an open rule. Defeated: 2-
7

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                Majority Members                      Vote               Minority Members               Vote
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Ms. Foxx........................................          Nay   Ms. Slaughter.....................  ............
Mr. Cole........................................          Nay   Mr. McGovern......................          Yea
Mr. Woodall.....................................          Nay   Mr. Hastings of Florida...........          Yea
Mr. Burgess.....................................          Nay   Mr. Polis.........................  ............
Mr. Stivers.....................................          Nay
Mr. Collins.....................................          Nay
Mr. Sessions, Chairman..........................          Nay
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Rules Committee record vote No. 20

    Motion by Ms. Foxx to report the rule. Adopted: 7-2

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                Majority Members                      Vote               Minority Members               Vote
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Ms. Foxx........................................          Yea   Ms. Slaughter.....................  ............
Mr. Cole........................................          Yea   Mr. McGovern......................          Nay
Mr. Woodall.....................................          Yea   Mr. Hastings of Florida...........          Nay
Mr. Burgess.....................................          Yea   Mr. Polis.........................  ............
Mr. Stivers.....................................          Yea
Mr. Collins.....................................          Yea
Mr. Sessions, Chairman..........................          Yea
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             SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENT CONSIDERED AS ADOPTED

    Byrne (AL): Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act and the heath related provisions in the Health Care 
and Education Reconciliation Act effective 180 days after 
enactment of this act and adds other clarifying and technical 
corrections. The amendment also excludes the budgetary effects 
of the bill from the Statutory Pay-go scorecard.

                TEXT OF AMENDMENT CONSIDERED AS ADOPTED

    Page 2, beginning on line 5, strike ``Effective as of the 
enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111-148), such Act is repealed'' and insert 
``Effective on the date that is 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is repealed''.
    Page 2, beginning on line 12, strike ``Effective as of the 
enactment of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act 
of 2010 (Public Law 111-152), title I and subtitle B of title 
II of such Act are repealed'' and insert ``Effective on the 
date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and 
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152) are 
repealed''.
    Page 2, strike line 19 and all that follows through page 3, 
line 2, and insert the following:

SEC. 2. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered on 
either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of 
the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
    Page 3, line 25, insert ``while reducing costs under such 
programs'' after ``Medicaid programs''.
    Page 4, line 8, strike ``insolvency'' and insert 
``growth''.

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