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        <PUBLICATION>
            <PUBLICATION_ID>201610</PUBLICATION_ID>
            <PUBLICATION_TITLE>The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions</PUBLICATION_TITLE>
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            <NAME>Internal Revenue Service</NAME>
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            <NAME>Department of the Treasury</NAME>
            <ACRONYM>TREAS</ACRONYM>
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        <RULE_TITLE>Expatriate Health Plans, Expatriate Health Plan Issuers and Qualified Expatriates; Excepted Benefits; Annual and Lifetime Limits; and Short-Term Limited Duration Insurance</RULE_TITLE>
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<p>This document contains proposed regulations on the rules for expatriate health plans, expatriate health Plan issuers and qualified expatriates under the Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification Act of 2014 (ECHCCA). This document also includes proposed conforming amendments to certain regulations to implement the provisions of the EHCCA. Further, this document proposes standards for travel insurance and supplemental health insurance coverage to be considered excepted benefits and revisions to the definition of short-term limited duration insurance for purposed of the exclusion from the definition of individual health insurance coverage. These proposed regulations affect expatriated with health coverage under expatriate health plans and sponsors, issuers, and administrators of expatriate health plans, plan sponsors of and individuals with travel insurance, and supplemental health insurance coverage, and individuals with short-term limited duration insurance. In addition, this document proposes to amend a reference in the final regulations relating to prohibitions on lifetime and annual limits and provides a notice requirement for hospital indemnity and fixed indemnity insurance in the group health insurance market that are excepted benefits.</p>
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        <PRIORITY_CATEGORY>Routine and Frequent</PRIORITY_CATEGORY>
        <RIN_STATUS>First Time Published in The Unified Agenda</RIN_STATUS>
        <RULE_STAGE>Proposed Rule Stage</RULE_STAGE>
        <MAJOR>Undetermined</MAJOR>
        <UNFUNDED_MANDATE_LIST>
            <UNFUNDED_MANDATE>No</UNFUNDED_MANDATE>
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        <CFR_LIST>
            <CFR>26 CFR 1.5000A</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 46.4377</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR  1.6055</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 1.6056</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 54.9801</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 54.9815</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 54.9831</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 54.9833</CFR>
            <CFR>26 CFR 57.2</CFR>
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        <LEGAL_AUTHORITY_LIST>
            <LEGAL_AUTHORITY>26 U.S.C. 7805</LEGAL_AUTHORITY>
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        <RPLAN_ENTRY>No</RPLAN_ENTRY>
        <TIMETABLE_LIST>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>NPRM</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>12/00/2016</TTBL_DATE>
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        <ADDITIONAL_INFO>REG-135702-15 (NPRM)

Drafting attorney:  R. Lisa Mojiri-Azad  (202) 317-5500 

Reviewer attorney:  Kevin Knopf  (202) 317-5500 

Treasury attorneys:  Carol Weiser  (202) 622-0869 and Christa Bierma (202) 622-2329

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        <RFA_REQUIRED>No</RFA_REQUIRED>
        <GOVT_LEVEL_LIST>
            <GOVT_LEVEL>Undetermined</GOVT_LEVEL>
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        <FEDERALISM>Undetermined</FEDERALISM>
        <PRINT_PAPER>No</PRINT_PAPER>
        <INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>Yes</INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>
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                <FIRST_NAME>R. Lisa</FIRST_NAME>
                <LAST_NAME>Mojiri-Azad</LAST_NAME>
                <TITLE>Senior Technician Reviewer</TITLE>
                <AGENCY>
                    <CODE>1545</CODE>
                    <NAME>Internal Revenue Service</NAME>
                    <ACRONYM>IRS</ACRONYM>
                </AGENCY>
                <PHONE>202 622-6060</PHONE>
                <EMAIL>lisa.mojiri-azad@irscounsel.treas.gov</EMAIL>
                <MAILING_ADDRESS>
                    <STREET_ADDRESS>1111 Constitution Avenue NW.,</STREET_ADDRESS>
                    <CITY>Washington</CITY>
                    <STATE>DC</STATE>
                    <ZIP>20224</ZIP>
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