S.Amdt. 2390

SA 2390. Mr. COATS 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:

In the appropriate place, strike sections 104(c)(1)(A) of title 23, United States Code and insert the following:

“(A) Calculation of amount.--For fiscal year 2013, the amount for each State of combined apportionments for the national highway performance program under section 119, the surface transportation program under section 133, the highway safety improvement program under section 148, the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program under section 149, and to carry out section 134 shall be equal to the percentage of the total amount available for apportionment to all States that is equal to the proportion that--