US Congress House Bill 607 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)
Status: Introduced on February 8 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-04-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Delays until January 1, 2016, the effective date of any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or of any health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 that were scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to postpone until FY2014 the automatic reductions to eliminate the excess budget deficit (sequestration). Prohibits the President from issuing an order to carry out any sequestration that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget estimates is required for FY2013.

To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.

Rep. Mac Thornberry [R-TX]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Michael Conaway [R-TX]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]
Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]
Rep. Kay Granger [R-TX]	Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Howard McKeon [R-CA]	Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]
Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2013-04-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2013-02-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
2013-02-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-02-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House House Administration
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Appropriations
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Rules
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-02-08	House	Referred to House Budget
2013-02-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, Appropriations, House Administration, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/607/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr607/BILLS-113hr607ih.pdf