S 38
114th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Unemployment
Helping Individuals Regain Employment Act
Introduced: January 7, 2015
Introduced by:
Thune, John
Republican
· South Dakota
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 7, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 7, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Helping Individuals Regain Employment Act
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of "full-time employee," for purposes of the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage, any individual who is a long-term unemployed individual. Defines "long-term unemployed individual" as an individual who begins employment after enactment of this Act and has been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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