S. 432 · 114th Congress
Small Business Fairness in Health Care Act
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3 cosponsors · 3 R
3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to: (1) exempt a small business concern, as defined by the Small Business Act, from the PPACA employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage; and (2) redefine "full-time employee," for purposes of such mandate, as an…
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 10, 2015
Small Business Fairness in Health Care Act
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to: (1) exempt a small business concern, as defined by the Small Business Act, from the PPACA employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage; and (2) redefine "full-time employee," for purposes of such mandate, as an employee who is employed on average at least 40 (currently, 30) hours a week.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Small Business Fairness in Health Care Act
Latest action (Feb 10, 2015): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy area: Taxation · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 10, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.