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Version 81 · Passed House without amendment · Mar 11, 2014
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here, with an updated short title.)
Hire More Heroes Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an employer, for purposes of determining whether such employer is an applicable large employer and thus required to provide health care coverage to its employees under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to exclude employees who have coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), including TRICARE, or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] · R–IL
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Cloture motion on the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (consideration: CR S3064)
Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S3019; text: CR S3019)
Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with the following amendment (SA 3093) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S3018-3019; text: CR S3018)
Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S3018-3019)
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3018)
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S2984-2993, S3018)
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 96 - 3. Record Vote Number: 143. (consideration: CR S2930; text: CR S2930)
Senate roll call 143 · Individual votesMotion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S2923, S2924-2930, S2935-2947)
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S2889-2890)
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S2850; text: CR S2850)
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S2831-2832, S2847-2859)
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Received in the Senate.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 1 (Roll no. 115). (text: CR H2276)
House roll call 115 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 1 (Roll no. 115).(text: CR H2276)
House roll call 115 · Individual votesConsidered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2284-2285)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3474.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2276-2278)
Mr. Brady (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. (consideration: CR H2276)
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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