S. 2052: Health Care Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act
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S. 2052: Health Care Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act
115th Congress · introduced 2017-11-01 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2017-11-01 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Health Care Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act
Plain summary
Health Care Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act This bill appropriates such sums as necessary to pay through health care plan year 2019 the cost-sharing reductions authorized in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (A cost-sharing reduction is a discount that lowers the amount an individual pays for deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance; the federal government pays the difference directly to insurers.) The bill excludes payments to insurers that cover abortions other than abortions necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman or abortions of a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend for 2017-2021 the individual mandate to maintain minimum health care coverage. The bill suspends the employer health care mandate for 2015-2017, thereby exempting employers from penalties for failing to provide mandated coverage during that time period. The bill increases the monthly contribution limit for health savings accounts through 2022.
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Official text
Health Care Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s2052.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>
Record fed-us-cong115-s2052 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115