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H.R. 436: Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012

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H.R. 436: Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012

112th Congress · introduced 2011-01-25 · Taxation · Latest: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 427.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-01-25 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 360 (2012): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR436 (2012-06-07), Failed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 427. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012

Plain summary

Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the excise tax on medical devices; (2) repeal restrictions on payments from health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending and reimbursement arrangements to only prescription drugs or insulin (thus allowing distributions from such accounts for over-the-counter drugs); (3) allow amounts in a flexible spending arrangement (FSA), up to $500, that are not spent for medical care to be distributed to the FSA participant as taxable income after the close of a plan year (currently, such unspent amounts are forfeited); and (4) repeal the limitation on the recapture of advance payments of the tax credit for health insurance premium assistance that exceed the allowable credit amount for a taxable year.

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3] · 240 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Tom Cole (R-OK), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Andy Harris (R-MD), James Lankford (R-OK), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Marlin A. Stutzman (R-IN), Todd Young (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and 180 more.

Recorded votes

Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr436 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112