S.Amdt. 140

SA 140. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO MODIFY THE METHODOLOGY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S COMPLIANCE, SAFETY, ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the budget authority and outlay allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution for 1 or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between houses, motions, or conference reports that would modify the methodology of the Department of Transportation's Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program to ensure that motor carriers' Safety Measurement System scores in each of the measurement categories bear a strong statistical relationship to future crash risk, based on peer reviewed research, and only consider crashes that the motor carrier caused or reasonably could have prevented, without raising revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose if such legislation would not increase the deficit during--

(1) the 5-year period ending on September 30, 2018; or

(2) the 10-year period ending on September 30, 2023.