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Health Care Choice Act of 2013

Introduced: February 15, 2013 Introduced by: Blackburn, Marsha Republican · Tennessee See on congress.gov
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Became law
Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 18, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 15, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 15, 2013
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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 15, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Health Care Choice Act of 2013 - Repeals the health insurance and health coverage expansion requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related requirements of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended or repealed by such provisions.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with the conditions of this Act.

Exempts issuers from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the issuer in such state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by such state.

Specifies the notice that an issuer must provide in any insurance coverage offered in a secondary state and at renewal of the policy.

Requires each issuer issuing individual health insurance coverage in both primary and secondary states to submit to the insurance commissioners of such states: (1) a copy of the plan of operation or feasibility study, (2) written notice of any change in its designation of its primary state and of its compliance with all the laws of the primary state, and (3) a quarterly financial statement.

Prohibits an issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if the state insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for the determination of capital and surplus requirements for all issuers.

Gives sole jurisdiction to the primary state to enforce the primary state's covered laws in the primary state and any secondary state.

Requires the Comptroller General to study the effect of this Act on specified health insurance issues.

What's happening now April 23, 2013

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

 Related & companion bills 9
  • HR 2300 Related bill Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
  • HR 2688 Related bill PATIENT's Health Care Act of 2013
  • HR 2900 Related bill OPTION Act of 2013
  • HR 3121 Related bill American Health Care Reform Act of 2013
  • HR 3165 Related bill Common Sense Health Reform Americans Actually Want Act
  • HR 3355 Related bill Reducing Employer Burdens, Unleashing Innovation, and Labor Development Act of 2013
  • HR 3622 Related bill Patient Centered Healthcare Savings Act of 2013
  • S 351 Related bill Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
  • S 1860 Related bill STAR Act of 2013
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 12
All 12 Republican 7
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Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · Jun 20, 2013
Hensarling, Jeb
· Jun 4, 2013
Olson, Pete
· Mar 4, 2013
Ross, Dennis
· Mar 4, 2013
 R
Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Feb 15, 2013
 R
DesJarlais, Scott
Tennessee · Feb 15, 2013
 R
Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck"
Tennessee · Feb 15, 2013
 R
Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Feb 15, 2013
Harper, Gregg
· Feb 15, 2013
 R
McClintock, Tom
California · Feb 15, 2013
 R
Scalise, Steve
Louisiana · Feb 15, 2013
SHIMKUS, JOHN
· Feb 15, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 762: Health Care Choice Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-762/
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