S.Amdt. 2452

SA 2452. Mr. PAUL 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:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. 62002. FREE CHOICE TO JOIN, FORM, OR ASSIST LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

(a) Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act.--

(1) Rights of employees.--Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 157) is amended by striking “except to” and all that follows through “authorized in section 8(a)(3)”.

(2) Unfair labor practices.--Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is amended--

(A) in subsection (a)(3), by striking “: Provided, That” and all that follows through “retaining membership”;

(B) in subsection (b)--

(i) in paragraph (2), by striking “or to discriminate” and all that follows through “retaining membership”; and

(ii) in paragraph (5), by striking “covered by an agreement authorized under subsection (a)(3)”; and

(C) in subsection (f), by striking clause (2) and redesignating clauses (3) and (4) as clauses (2) and (3), respectively.

(b) Amendment to the Railway Labor Act.--Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152) is amended by striking paragraph Eleven.