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Health Care Choice Act of 2015

Introduced: January 27, 2015 Introduced by: Blackburn, Marsha Republican · Tennessee See on congress.gov
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Became law
Apr 29, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 30, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 27, 2015
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.
Jan 27, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Health Care Choice Act of 2015

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 Restores provisions of law amended or repealed by those provisions.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) 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 that state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by that state.

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 Government Accountability Office to study the effect of this Act on specified health insurance issues.

What's happening now April 29, 2015

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

 Related & companion bills 5
  • HR 2300 Related bill Empowering Patients First Act of 2015
  • HR 2653 Related bill American Health Care Reform Act of 2015
  • HR 3682 Related bill Reducing Employer Burdens, Unleashing Innovation, and Labor Development Act of 2015
  • S 2519 Related bill Empowering Patients First Act of 2015
  • S 647 Identical bill Health Care Choice Act of 2015
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Republican 5
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Hudson, Richard
North Carolina · Mar 24, 2015
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DesJarlais, Scott
Tennessee · Jan 27, 2015
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Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck"
Tennessee · Jan 27, 2015
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Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Jan 27, 2015
Love, Mia
· Jan 27, 2015
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McClintock, Tom
California · Jan 27, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 543: Health Care Choice Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-543/
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"H.R. 543: Health Care Choice Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-543/.
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H.R. 543, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-543/.
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