S.Amdt. 2375

SA 2375. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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:

Beginning on page 103, strike line 21 and all that follows through page 104, line 5, and insert the following:

SEC. 11024. TRIBAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM AMENDMENT.

Section 202 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking “6 percent” and inserting “5 percent”;

(2) in subsection (b)(3)(B)--

(A) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) as subclauses (I), (II), and (III), respectively, and indenting appropriately;

(B) in the matter preceding subclause (I) (as so redesignated), by striking “Tribal shares under this program” and inserting the following:

“(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), tribal shares under this program”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following:

“(ii) Funding floor.--For each fiscal year, an Indian tribe shall receive an amount under this program that is not less than $75,000.”; and

(3) in subsection (d)(2), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by striking “2 percent” and inserting “3 percent”.