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In the United States, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (;) is a law that was used as the vehicle to resolve, for the time being, both the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 and the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013. After the Republican-led House of Representatives could not agree on an originating resolution to end the government crisis, as had been agreed, the Democratic-led Senate used bill H.R. 2775 to resolve the impasse, to satisfy the Origination Clause requirement of Article One of the United States Constitution, which requires that revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives. Traditionally, appropriation bills also originate in the House of Representatives. The original bill H.R. 2775 was introduced into the House of Representatives on July 22, 2013, and was called the No Subsidies Without Verification Act. It sought to declare that no premium tax credits or reductions in cost-sharing for the purchase of qualified health benefit plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, often informally referred to as "Obamacare") shall be allowed before the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to Congress that there is a program in place, consistent with PPACA requirements, that verifies the household income and coverage requirements of individuals applying for such credits and cost-sharing reduction.〔 The bill passed the House on September 12, 2013. On October 16, 2013, the Senate amended the bill, changing its name to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, adding a continuing resolution to fund the government until January 15, 2014, and suspending the U.S. debt ceiling until February 7, 2014, in addition to other matters, while retaining the House's original PPACA verification provision. The Senate passed the bill that evening on a vote of 81–18, and the House also passed it on the same day by a vote of 285–144, and President Barack Obama signed the bill shortly after midnight, on October 17.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news.cfm?method=news.view&id=0e9e18fc-2e68-48f1-b139-7a25f5432f5c )〕 ==Original version== H.R. 2775 was originally introduced into the House of Representatives on July 22, 2013, under the name "No Subsidies Without Verification Act". The bill was only about a page long at that time (see the (text as introduced )).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/2775/text/108168 )〕 H.R. 2775 would declare that no premium tax credits or reductions in cost-sharing for the purchase of qualified health benefit plans under PPACA shall be allowed before the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to Congress that there is a program in place, consistent with PPACA requirements, that verifies the household income and coverage requirements of individuals applying for such credits and cost-sharing reduction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/2775 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44560 )〕 Section 1411 of the PPACA establishes requirements for a program to determine whether someone meets the income and coverage qualifications for such premium tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies (among other things).〔 The House passed this version of the bill on September 12, 2013.〔 CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have estimated that the original H.R. 2775 would not affect direct spending or revenues.〔 A program is currently being put in place to verify income and coverage qualifications for the tax credits and subsidies, and that program appears to CBO and JCT to be in accordance with section 1411.〔 The CBO expects that the Secretary would certify before the beginning of 2014, when premium tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies would first be paid, that the requirements in H.R 2775 are satisfied.〔 Pay-as-you-go procedures (PAYGO) do not apply to the original H.R. 2775 because the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues in CBO and JCT’s estimation.〔 H.R. 2775 does not contain any intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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