Update: House Approves Bill To Raise ACA Full-Time Definition to 40 Hours

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on April 3 that would raise the definition of full-time employment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to 40 hours per week.

H.R. 2575, the Save American Workers Act, restores a standard of full-time employment that is more closely aligned with traditional standards used throughout the U.S. floriculture industry.

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The bill passed by a vote of 248 to 179, with 18 Democrats joining with Republicans to vote in favor of the bill.

Click here to see how your representative voted.

Members of the Society of American Florists lobbied in support of this legislation, both at the association’s 34th annual Congressional Action Days in March and with a flurry of grassroots letters to Congress. In fact, a letter from Carol Tyler, a florist from the 23rd district in N.Y. state was read on the house floor by Rep. Tom Reed (R-23-NY).

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SAF is on the steering committee for both the Employers for Flexibility in Health Care coalition and the Small Business Coalition for Affordable Health Care. E-FLEX and SBCAH both had letters that were submitted for the record by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), and SAF was a signatory organization on both.

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