Long-Term Care Insurance Incentive Act of 1993
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (May 27, 1993)
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance
Title II: Refundable Tax Credit for Certain Custodial Care
Title III: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use
of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance
Long-Term Care Insurance Incentive Act of 1993 - Title I: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of qualified long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance for purposes of insurance company taxation.
Excludes from gross income benefits provided under a long-term care insurance contract. Includes in gross income employer-provided coverage for long-term care services.
Allows a tax credit for a percentage of qualified long-term care premiums.
Includes amounts paid for qualified long-term care services as medical expenses for individual itemized deductions. Includes any parent or grandparent as a dependent for purposes of such expenses.
Provides for the nonrecognition of gain or loss on the exchange of any life insurance contract or an endowment or annuity contract for a long-term care insurance contract.
Excludes from gross income certain amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts and certain employer cash or deferred arrangements to pay long-term care premiums.
Provides for the exclusion as a death benefit of any amount paid or advanced to an individual under a life insurance contract because such individual is terminally ill, chronically ill, or has been permanently confined to a qualified facility.
Allows insurance companies to issue accelerated death benefit riders on life insurance contracts.
Title II: Refundable Tax Credit for Certain Custodial Care - Allows a $2,000 per qualified person tax credit for taxpayers who maintain a household which includes a chronically ill dependent.
Title III: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) to disregard assets which are attributable to coverage under a qualified long-term care insurance contract for purposes of eligibility.
What just happenedJul 1, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMay 27, 1993
- Jul 1, 1993CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Jun 2, 1993CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - May 27, 1993IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Ways and Means Committee - May 27, 1993IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Energy and Commerce Committee - May 27, 1993IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- May 27, 1993IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House