S.Amdt. 2398

SA 2398. Ms. HIRONO 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:

Beginning on page 403, strike line 3 and all that follows
through page 404, line 6, and insert the following:
(2) Port performance measures.--
(A) In general.--The Director shall collect monthly port
performance measures for each of the United States ports
referred to in subsection (a) that receive Federal assistance
or is subject to Federal regulation to include in its annual
report to Congress under this subsection. The annual report
shall include the data elements described in subparagraph (B)
and data recommended for collection by the working group
commissioned by the Director under subsection (c)(2).
(B) Data elements.--Statistics collected pursuant to
subparagraph (A) shall include capacity and throughput, as
applicable to the specific configuration of the port, and
shall be made publicly available during the calendar month
immediately following the month in which they were generated.
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