{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-colleagues-applaud-passage-of-bills-to-reduce-burdensome-health-care-reporting-requirements-for-employers/", "Young, Colleagues Applaud Passage of Bills to Reduce Burdensome Health Care Reporting Requirements for Employers", "2024-12-12", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) applauded the passage of two bills to protect the privacy of Americans and remove burdensome health care reporting requirements by allowing certain communications to be filed electronically.\n\n\u201cUnder current law, overreaching compliance requirements create uncertainty and stress for employers in Indiana and across the nation. Our bipartisan bills will help reduce these unnecessary burdens and increase efficiency,\u201d said Senator Young.\n\n\u201cHealth care for Americans has only gotten better and more accessible since the passage of the Affordable Care Act \u2014 just ask anyone who faced lifetime limits or was denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition. These two pieces of legislation will make needed adjustments to modernize and streamline ACA reporting requirements to ensure that they don\u2019t needlessly compromise the privacy of Americans or get in the way of their access to health care. I\u2019m proud to have introduced these pieces of legislation and look forward to seeing them signed by President Biden,\u201d said Senator Warner.\n\n\u201cSmall businesses in South Dakota and across the country have been forced to comply with overly burdensome administrative requirements from the Affordable Care Act,\u201d said Senator Thune. \u201cThese bills would eliminate convoluted paperwork and streamline the current reporting requirements to ensure businesses can focus their resources on serving their customers and employees.\u201d\n\n\u201cEmployers shouldn\u2019t have to jump through unnecessary hoops to provide health care coverage for their employees,\u201d said Senator Cortez Masto. \u201cThese bills provide flexibility to employers, streamline health insurance reporting, and make communication more secure for employees and employers alike. I urge the president to sign them into law as soon as possible.\u201d\n\nThe Employer Reporting Improvement Act will protect Americans\u2019 privacy and ease compliance burdens on employers. Among other steps, it will modernize communication by allowing employers to electronically file certain documents. It will also protect privacy by clarifying that the IRS can accept full names and dates of birth in lieu of dependents\u2019 and spouses\u2019 Social Security numbers. In addition, it will ease compliance burdens by extending the time period (from 30 days to 90 days) during which an applicable large employer can appeal a penalty for not offering adequate, affordable health insurance to all full-time employees. Finally, it will enact a six-year statute of limitations for the IRS to levy penalties under the Employer Shared Responsibility provision of the ACA.\n\nThe Paperwork Burden Reduction Act will reduce the number of physical forms that employers have to mail to employees as part of complying with the ACA. Currently, employers and health insurance providers that provide minimum essential coverage must report this information to the IRS for each covered individual and provide a copy of this information to the covered individual (through 1095-B or 1095-C tax forms, depending on the coverage type) by January 31 of each year. Current IRS regulations allow employers to provide only 1095-B forms electronically. The Paperwork Burden Reduction Act will codify the current IRS policy by allowing the 1095-B to be provided electronically and would extend this to 1095-C, limiting unnecessary physical paperwork.\n\nThe Employer Reporting Improvement Act and the Paperwork Burden Reduction Act were approved by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year and now head to President Biden\u2019s desk for his signature.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-colleagues-applaud-passage-of-bills-to-reduce-burdensome-health-care-reporting-requirements-for-employers/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2884349562227726, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}