House Passes Bill Defining Full Time as Forty Hours a Week for Purposes of the ACA Employer Mandate

The House of Representatives recently voted 248-179 to define full-time employment for purposes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer mandate to provide health insurance for full time workers or pay a penalty as forty hours a week.  Eighteen Democrats joined with all voting House Republicans who supported the measure. The ACA as it was written defined a full-time employee as someone…