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.

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-28 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

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Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-28 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 57 (2015): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR596 (2015-02-03), Failed. See all
Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

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.

Plain summary

This bill repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Provisions of law amended by that Act are restored. This bill repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Provisions of law amended by that Act's health care provisions are restored. Specified committees of the House of Representatives must report legislation within each committee's jurisdiction with provisions that: foster economic growth and private sector job creation; lower health care premiums; preserve a patient's ability to keep their health plan; provide people with preexisting conditions access to affordable health coverage; reform the medical liability system to reduce unnecessary health care spending; increase the number of insured Americans; protect the doctor-patient relationship; provide states greater flexibility to administer Medicaid programs; expand incentives to encourage personal responsibility for health care coverage and costs; prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and provide conscience protections for health care providers; eliminate duplicative government programs and wasteful spending; or do not accelerate the insolvency of entitlement programs or increase the tax burden on Americans.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

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.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1] · 112 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 596, a bill 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 (2015-01-30)

Cosponsors on this site

Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Mike Rogers (R-AL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sam Graves (R-MO), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Roger Williams (R-TX), Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Gary J. Palmer (R-AL), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT), David Rouzer (R-NC), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Austin Scott (R-GA), J. French Hill (R-AR), John R. Carter (R-TX) and 52 more.

Recorded votes

House roll call 57 (2015): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR596 (2015-02-03): Failed
House roll call 58 (2015): On Passage, HR596 (2015-02-03): Passed

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr596.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>

Record fed-us-cong114-hr596 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114