Congressman introduces legislation aimed at shielding schools from Affordable Care Act

While school districts in Shelby County continue to be a part of a lawsuit against the IRS challenging the federal health care law and subsidies, a U.S. Congressman from Indiana has again initiated a bill on the floor of House of Representatives aimed at helping schools.

Republican Luke Messer, who represents Shelby County and the 6th Congressional District in Washington, D.C., introduced legislation in response to the challenges facing schools as a result of the Affordable Care Act. The Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies (SCHOOL) Act (H.R. 4775) would exempt schools, college and universities from the health care law's employer mandate.

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