To promote innovation, preserve high-paying jobs, and encourage economic growth for manufacturers of lifesaving medical devices and cutting edge medical therapies.

SA 297. Mr. HATCH (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Cornyn, Mr.
Franken, Mr. Burr, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Casey, Mr. Coats, Mr.
Portman, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Cowan, Mrs. Hagan, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Isakson,
Mr. Thune, Mr. Risch, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Wicker, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Flake,
Ms. Warren, Mr. Moran, Mr. Coburn, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Lee, Mr. Enzi,
Mr. Whitehouse, Mrs. Shaheen, and 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; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REPEAL OF MEDICAL
DEVICE TAX.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may
revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the House and the Senate, motions, or
conference reports related to innovation, high quality
manufacturing jobs, and economic growth, including the repeal
of the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device
manufacturers, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit

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over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013
through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013
through 2023.
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