S.Amdt. 2342

SA 2342. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2266 proposed by Mr. McConnell 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 end of subtitle C of title XXXI of division C, add
the following:

SEC. 31304. MONTHLY REPORTS ON PERFORMANCE AT UNITED STATES
PORTS.

(a) In General.--Not later than 1 year before the
expiration date of a maritime labor agreement that applies to
facilities of a United States port, 3 months before the
expiration date of the maritime labor agreement, and monthly
thereafter until a new agreement is agreed to, the Secretary
of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of
Commerce and the Secretary of Labor, shall post on the public
website of the Department of Transportation a report that
includes port performance indicators at the affected port. If
multiple ports are affected by the expiration of the maritime
labor agreement, the Secretary of Transportation shall post a
report for each affected port.
(b) Contents.--Each report required under subsection (a)
shall include, for the affected port during the previous
month--
(1) the performance indicators listed under section
6314(b)(2) of title 49, United States Code;
(2) the number and type of vessels awaiting berthing,
including average wait time;
(3) the number of cancelled vessel calls;
(4) an estimate of the economic impact associated with any
delays both at the port and across the national economy;
(5) an estimate of the amount of time required to clear any
congestion;
(6) the average number of labor positions ordered and
filled; and
(7) any other factors that might have created delays,
including weather, equipment maintenance or failures, or
infrastructure development or repair.
(c) Effective Period.--The Secretary of Transportation, in
consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary
of Labor, shall submit a report required under subsection (a)
for an affected port until the date on which a new maritime
labor agreement that applies to the facilities of the port is
agreed to by all of the parties to that maritime labor
agreement.
(d) Definition of Maritime Labor Agreement.--In this
section, the term ``maritime labor agreement'' has the
meaning given such term in section 40102 of title 46, United
States Code.
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