To eliminate any exceptions to the prohibition on States receiving an enhanced Federal matching rate for providing coverage to children whose family income exceeds 300 percent of the poverty line.
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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 74 proposed by Senator Bunning.(consideration: CR S1015-1016, S1019-1025, S1029-1030, S1031; text: CR S1015; text as modified: CR S1031)
January 29, 2009
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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 74 proposed by Senator Bunning.(consideration: CR S1015-1016, S1019-1025, S1029-1030, S1031; text: CR S1015; text as modified: CR S1031)
January 29, 2009
Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Motion to table amendment SA 74 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 44. Record Vote Number: 25.
January 29, 2009
Amendment SA 74 proposed by Senator Bunning. (consideration: CR S1015-1016, S1019-1025, S1029-1030, S1031; text: CR S1015; text as modified: CR S1031) To eliminate any exceptions to the prohibition on States receiving an enhanced Federal matching rate for providing coverage to children whose family income exceeds 300 percent of the poverty line.
January 29, 2009
Motion to table amendment SA 74 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 44. Record Vote Number: 25.
January 29, 2009
Senate amendment submitted
January 28, 2009
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1 roll call on this amendment
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SA 74. Mr. BUNNING submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2, to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 75, strike line 18 and all that follows through page 76, line 2, and insert the following: ``(B) Increased funding for outreach and enrollment grants.-- ``(i) Appropriation.--In addition to amounts appropriated under subsection (g) of section 2113 for the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2013, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount described in clause (ii), for the purpose of the Secretary awarding grants under that section. ``(ii) Amount described.--The amount described in this clause is the amount equal to the amount of additional Federal funds that the Director of the Congressional Budget Office certifies would have been expended for the period beginning April 1, 2009, and ending September 30, 2013, if subparagraph (A) did not apply to any State that, on the date of enactment of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, has an approved State plan amendment or waiver to provide, or has enacted a State law to submit a State plan amendment to provide, expenditures described in such subparagraph under the State child health plan.''. ______