S.Amdt. 3271

SA 3271. Mr. GRASSLEY 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 1783, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:

SEC. 6412. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF MANAGEMENT
IMPLICATION REPORTS BY THE HHS OIG.

Section 1128J of the Social Security Act, as added by
section 6402, is amended by adding at the end the following
new subsection:
``(f) Transmission of Management Implication Reports by the
HHS OIG.--
``(1) Congressional notification.--Not later than 30 days
after the transmission by the Inspector General of the
Department of Health and Human Services to another agency of
the Department of Health and Human Services of a management
implication report, the Inspector General shall notify the
relevant committees of Congress of such transmission.
``(2) Secretarial response.--The Secretary shall respond to
a management implication report transmitted under paragraph
(1) not later than 90 days after such transmission.
``(3) Relevant committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term `relevant committees of Congress' means
the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of
the Senate.''.
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