Updated CRS Report on Changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/”Obamacare”

This updated report summarizes legislative and other actions taken to repeal, defund, delay, or otherwise amend the ACA since the law’s enactment. The information is presented in four appendices.

• Table A-1 in Appendix A summarizes the authorizing legislation to amend the ACA that has been approved by both chambers and enacted into law.
• Table B-1 in Appendix B summarizes the ACA provisions in authorizing legislation that passed the House in the 112thCongress (2011-2012) but was not approved by the Senate. It also lists the ACA-related legislation that the House has passed to date in the 113thCongress (2013-2014), but which has not been taken up by the Senate.
• Table C-1in Appendix C summarizes the ACA-related provisions in enacted annual appropriations acts for each of FY2011through FY2014.Also included is a brief overview of all the ACA-related provisions added to appropriations bills considered, and in most cases reported, by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees since FY2011.
• Finally, Table D-1 in Appendix D summarizes various administrative decisions taken by HHS and the Department of the Treasury to delay implementation of specific ACA requirements by one year.

Other recent announcements by the Administration that address ACA implementation are also listed.