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HR 607 113th Congress House Health Appropriations Budget deficits and national debt Comprehensive health care Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access

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.

Introduced: February 15, 2013 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Feb 21, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
Feb 19, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 8, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 8, 2013
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.
Feb 8, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now April 23, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 14
 Cosponsors 14
All 14 Republican 2
Brooks, Mo
· Feb 26, 2013
Jenkins, Lynn
· Feb 26, 2013
Pearce, Stevan
· Feb 26, 2013
Conaway, K.
· Feb 25, 2013
Forbes, J.
· Feb 25, 2013
Fortenberry, Jeff
· Feb 25, 2013
Granger, Kay
· Feb 25, 2013
CULBERSON, JOHN
· Feb 15, 2013
Farenthold, Blake
· Feb 15, 2013
MCKEON, HOWARD
· Feb 13, 2013
 R
Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · Feb 13, 2013
 R
Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · Feb 13, 2013
HALL, RALPH
· Feb 12, 2013
JONES, WALTER
· Feb 12, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 607: 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.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-607/
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"H.R. 607: 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.." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-607/.
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H.R. 607, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-607/.
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