S.Amdt. 3142

SA 3142. Mrs. HUTCHISON submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr.
Baucus, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill H.R. 3590, to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers
credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other
Federal employees, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

On page 2026, strike line 3 and insert the following:
(i) Exclusion of Devices for Cancer Diagnosis and
Treatment.--
(1) In general.--The term ``medical device sales'' shall
not include sales of any device which is primarily designed
to diagnose or treat any form of cancer.
(2) Reduction of aggregate fee amount.--The $2,000,000,000
amount in subsection (b)(1) shall be reduced by the amount
which bears the same ratio to such $2,000,000,000 amount as
the amount of the sales of devices described in paragraph (1)
for calendar year 2010 bears to the amount of total medical
device sales (without regard to this subsection) for such
calendar year, as determined by the Secretary.
(j) Application of Section.--This section shall
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