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H.R.4910 / 111th Congress

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and enact the Empowering Patients First Act in order to provide incentives to encourage health insurance coverage.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 22, 2010

Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), effective as of enactment of such Act. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act.

Enacts the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 3400), as introduced in the House of Representatives on July 30, 2009.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5] · R–IN

Committees

  • Education and Workforce Committee
  • Ways and Means Committee
  • Oversight and Government Reform Committee
  • Committee on House Administration
  • Appropriations Committee
  • Budget Committee
  • Rules Committee
  • Judiciary Committee
  • Natural Resources Committee
  • Energy and Commerce Committee
27 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

  2. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  3. Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform

  4. Referred to House Administration

  5. Referred to House Appropriations

  6. Referred to House Budget

  7. Referred to House Rules

  8. Referred to House Judiciary

  9. Referred to House Ways and Means

  10. Referred to House Education and Labor

  11. Referred to House Natural Resources

  12. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Rules, the Budget, Appropriations, House Administration, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  13. Referred to House Energy and Commerce

  14. Introduced in House

  15. Introduced in House

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