Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Read the Big Health Care Act

Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (March 23, 2010) on your summer reading list?

Here are some sources:
  • plain text from Government Printing Office
  • PDF (906 pages) from the Government Printing Office (certified by the Superintendent of Documents as the authentic text)
  • print version from CCH, KF6276 .6201 .A22 2010 at Reference Area. Includes
    • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
    • Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-152
    • Joint Committee on Taxation technical explanation of the two laws
  • another print version from CCH, 2010 tax legislation, KF6276.569 .T3 2010 at Reference Area and Classified Stacks.
    • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
    • Health Care Reconciliation Act
    • HIRE and other recent tax acts
    • CCH editorial staff explanation and analysis
  • print version from RIA, KF6276.501 .R53 2010 at Reference Area and Classified Stacks. Includes
    • RIA's complete analysis of the tax and benefits provisions of the 2010 Health Care Act as amended by the 2010 Health Care Reconciliation Act
    • Code and ERISA sections as amended
    • committee reports
Why post this now? Well, in addition to the obvious tie to summer reading, it's because the PDF of the Statutes at Large version only just became available on Friday, according to the Law Library of Congress's Twitter feed.

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