Family Health Care Flexibility Act

Family Health Care Flexibility Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that: (1) restrict payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs and insulin only (thus allowing payments for over-the-counter medications); and (2) impose a $2,500 limitation on salary reduction contributions to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1248 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1248

   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal 
              certain limitations on health care benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2013

  Mr. Paulsen (for himself, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Boustany, Mr. Pitts, Mr. 
 Chabot, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Alexander, 
Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Harper, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Ross, Mr. Latham, Mr. 
McKinley, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Jones, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Nunnelee, Mr. Womack, 
 Mr. Schock, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Latta, Mr. Yoder, 
   Mr. Barr, Mr. Collins of New York, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Gerlach, Mr. 
 Griffith of Virginia, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Long, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
  Stutzman, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Bucshon, and Mr. Harris) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal 
              certain limitations on health care benefits.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Health Care Flexibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MEDICINE QUALIFIED ONLY IF FOR 
              PRESCRIBED DRUG OR INSULIN.

    Section 9003 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111-148) and the amendments made by such section are 
repealed; and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied as if 
such section, and amendments, had never been enacted.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF LIMITATION ON HEALTH FLEXIBLE SPENDING ARRANGEMENTS 
              UNDER CAFETERIA PLANS.

    Sections 9005 and 10902 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (Public Law 111-148) and section 1403 of the Health Care and 
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152) and the 
amendments made by such sections are repealed.
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