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This bill, titled the Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 2013, proposes to change how a "full-time employee" is defined for the purposes of the employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA's employer mandate requires applicable large employers to offer affordable health coverage to their full-time employees or face potential penalties. Specifically, this bill would amend Section 4980H(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by changing the threshold for what constitutes a full-time employee. It would remove the current measurement of "by 120" and insert "by 174," and in another section, it would strike "30 hours" and insert "40 hours," effectively raising the number of hours an employee must work to be considered full-time for ACA employer mandate purposes.