S.Amdt. 2485

SA 2485.  Mr. BROWN 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:

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On page 348, strike lines 11 through 18 and insert the
following:
``(1) In general.--
``(A) Authority.--The Secretary may make grants under this
subsection to eligible recipients to assist in the financing
of bus and bus facilities capital projects, including--
``(i) replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing, or leasing
buses or related equipment; and
``(ii) rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing, or leasing
bus-related facilities.
``(B) Eligible recipients and subrecipients.--
``(i) Recipients.--An eligible recipient under this
subsection is--

``(I) a designated recipient that allocates funds to a
fixed route bus operator; or
``(II) a State or local governmental entity that operates
fixed route bus service.

``(ii) Subrecipients.--An eligible recipient that receives
a grant under this subsection may allocate amounts of the
grant to a subrecipient that is a public agency or private
nonprofit organization engaged in public transportation.
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