Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Government Lacks Insight To Choose Health Act” or the “GLITCH Act”.
Government Lacks Insight To Choose Health Act
A BILL
To provide for a reduction in the pay of the Secretary of Health and Human Services until the healthcare.gov Web site is certified as fully functional.
Sec. 2 Reduction in pay of the Secretary of Health and Human Services until healthcare.gov Web site is fully functional
Pay reduction—
In general— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the rate of basic pay payable to the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be equal to—
for each month ending during the pay reduction period, the rate that would otherwise apply if this Act had not been enacted, reduced by the applicable percentage; and
for each month ending after the pay reduction period, the rate that would otherwise apply if this Act had not been enacted.
Applicable percentage— For purposes of paragraph (1), the applicable percentage is—
for the first month ending during the pay reduction period, 5 percent; and
for each subsequent month ending during the pay reduction period—
the applicable percentage for the previous month, plus
5 percentage points,
Pay reduction period defined— For purposes of this section, the term pay reduction period means the period which—
begins on the date of the first determination under subsection (b) that the healthcare.gov Web site is not fully functional; and
ends on the date of the determination under subsection (b) that the healthcare.gov Web site is fully functional.
Certification required that healthcare.gov Web site is fully functional—
Determinations— Subject to paragraph (2), not later than the 15th of the first month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act and of each subsequent month, the Comptroller General of the United States shall determine, in such manner and in accordance with such criteria as specified by the Comptroller General if the healthcare.gov Web site is fully functional and submit to the Congress such determination.
Certification— Determinations under paragraph (1) shall cease after the date on which the Comptroller General of the United States certifies to the Congress that the healthcare.gov Web site is fully functional.