S.Amdt. 2415

SA 2415. Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Carper, and Mr. Menendez) 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:

On page 334, strike lines 6 through 23 and insert the following:

“(1) In general.--

“(A) Amounts made available.--There shall be available from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out sections 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 5322(b), 5322(d), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, section 20005(b) of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, and section 21007(b) of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2015--

“(i) $9,284,747,400 for fiscal year 2016;

“(ii) $9,480,039,349 for fiscal year 2017;

“(iii) $9,785,745,744 for fiscal year 2018;

“(iv) $10,201,051,238 for fiscal year 2019;

“(v) $10,451,763,806 for fiscal year 2020; and

“(vi) $10,709,442,533 for fiscal year 2021.

“(B) Allocation of funds for high density state apportionments.--Of the amounts made available under subparagraph (A), $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 shall be allocated in accordance with section 5340(d).

“(2) Allocation of funds.--Of the amounts made available under paragraph (1)(A)--