S.Amdt. 3155

SA 3155. Mr. BARRASSO 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 201, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:

SEC. 1325. ANNUAL AUDITS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary shall enter into contracts
with one or more private accounting firms for the conduct of
annual audits of the CO-OP program under section 1322 and the
community health insurance option program under section 1323.
SUch contracts shall require that such firms submit annual
reports to the Secretary concerning the results of such
audits.
(b) Inclusion in Medicare Trustees Report.--Sections
1817(b) and 1841(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395i(b); 1395t(b)) are each amended by inserting at the end
the following new sentence: ``Each report submitted under
paragraph (2) (beginning with the report for 2014) shall
include a description of the results of the audits conducted
under section 1325(a) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act for the year involved.''.
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