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S 1415 114th Congress Senate

Small Business Stability Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of large employer for purposes of applying the employer mandate.

Introduced: May 21, 2015 See on congress.gov
Health Employee benefits and pensionsHealth care costs and insuranceSmall business
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 21, 2015
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 Latest action May 21, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Small Business Stability Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the definition of "applicable large employer," for purposes of the mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage, to mean an employer who employed an average of at least 101 (currently, 50) full-time employees during the preceding calendar year. Excludes from such definition a small employer that is eligible to purchase a qualified health plan in the small group health insurance market, as defined in PPACA.

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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · May 21, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1415: Small Business Stability Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1415/
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"S. 1415: Small Business Stability Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1415/.
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S. 1415, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1415/.
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