S.Amdt. 2312

SA 2312. Mr. FLAKE (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. EXTENSION OF COMPLIANCE DEADLINE FOR CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS RULE.

(a) Definition of Compliance Date.--

(1) In general.--In this section, the term “compliance date” means the date by which any State, local, or tribal government or other person is required to comply with any requirement in a final rule that succeeds--

(A) the proposed rule entitled “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” (79 Fed. Reg. 34830 (June 18, 2014)); or

(B) the supplemental proposed rule entitled “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: EGUs in Indian Country and U.S. Territories; Multi-Jurisdictional Partnerships” (79 Fed. Reg. 65482 (November 4, 2014)).

(2) Inclusion.--The term “compliance date” includes the date by which State plans are required to be submitted to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under any final rule described in paragraph (1).

(b) Extensions.--If any person files a petition for review to challenge a final rule described in subsection (a)(1), each compliance date shall be extended by the time period equal to the period of days that--

(1) begins on the date that is 60 days after the date on which notice of promulgation of a final rule described in subsection (a)(1) appears in the Federal Register; and

(2) ends on the date that is 60 days after the date on which judgment becomes final, and no longer subject to further appeal or review, in all actions (including any action filed pursuant to section 307 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7607)) that--

(A) are filed during the time period described in paragraph (1); and

(B) seek review of any aspect of the rule.