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"Legislative vehicle"

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The Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act (H.R. 3547; 113th Congress) was a bill that would extend until December 31, 2014 the current limitation on liability of commercial space launch companies. The bill was passed by the House on December 2, 2013. The Senate voted on December 12, 2013 to pass the bill amended by unanimous consent. This sent the bill back to the House for reconsideration of the amendment version. One month later, the House and Senate leadership have decided to use H.R. 3547 as a vehicle for passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014. The House leadership intends to vote on amendment to the bill on January 15, 2014 so that the Senate has a chance to work on it before the deadline. That amendment would be 1,500 pages long and include all of the consolidated appropriations needed to fund the federal government until October 1, 2014. The originally material for the Space Launch Liability Indeminification Extension Act became one paragraph in Section 8.

The Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act was used by the Senate during the 113th United States Congress as a legislative vehicle to pass an extension of federal long-term unemployment insurance benefits. The original bill would have amended the Internal Revenue Code to exclude volunteer hours of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel from counting towards the calculation of the number of a firm’s full-time employees for purposes of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The newly amended bill still contained the original material about volunteer responders, but now focuses on extending unemployment insurance. Reid used the volunteer responders bill as a vehicle "as a way to more easily send the UI extension bill back to the House."

The Hire More Heroes Act of 2013 (H.R. 3474; 113th Congress) was a bill that would allow employers to exclude veterans receiving health insurance from the United States Department of Defense or the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs from their list of employees. This would have the effect of keeping their list of employees shorter, allowing some small businesses to fall underneath the 50 full-time employees line that would require them to provide their employees with healthcare under the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The bill passed into the House on March 11, 2014. The United States Senate began working on the bill in May 2014, when it decided to amend the bill so that it could serve as the legislative vehicle for the EXPIRE Act. The EXPIRE Act would extend a variety of tax credits that expired at the end of 2013. The EXPIRE Act was considered to be easier for the House to pass if the Senate sent it to that chamber as an amendment to a House-passed bill instead of a newly arrived Senate bill.