S.Amdt. 517

1. Adds SEC. 4___. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF MEDICARE SAVINGS TO SATISFY CONDITIONS FOR BUDGET POINTS OF ORDER at the end of subtitle A of title IV

   Adds a section

   In S.Con.Res. 8 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   (e) Form of the Point of Order.--When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.

   Inserted: SEC. 4___. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF MEDICARE SAVINGS TO SATISFY CONDITIONS FOR BUDGET POINTS OF ORDER.

   Inserted: In the Senate, provisions contained in any bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that reduce Medicare outlays or increase Medicare revenues and use those savings to offset other increases in spending or reductions in revenues outside of Medicare shall not be scored for purposes of determining budgetary effects to evaluate points of order set out under this resolution, any previous budget resolution, any subsequent budget resolution, or the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

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