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Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act

H.R. 5147 · 113th Congress · Jul 17, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To provide certain uninsured individuals a special enrollment period after tax filing in 2015 for enrollment in qualified health plans offered through an Exchange, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Get Your Refund, Get Your Health Care Act”.

Sec. 2 Special enrollment period for certain uninsured individuals after tax filing period in 2015

(a)
In general— The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require that Exchanges established under title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148) provide to qualified uninsured individuals a 60-day special enrollment period that begins on April 15, 2015 (or, if earlier, on the date such individual files an income tax return applicable to the first taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2014).
(b)
Qualified uninsured individual defined— In this section, the term “qualified uninsured individual” means an individual who—
(1)
is eligible, but who has not elected, to enroll in a qualified health plan offered through an Exchange established under title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148) during the open enrollment period for 2015; and
(2)
is liable for a penalty under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to any month in 2014.