S.Amdt. 2496

SA 2496. Mr. MENENDEZ 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
care 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 14 through 21 and insert the
following:
``(A) $9,848,876,920 for fiscal year 2016;
``(B) $10,040,853,688 for fiscal year 2017;
``(C) $10,596,296,753 for fiscal year 2018;
``(D) $11,436,615,554 for fiscal year 2019;
``(E) $11,723,436,139 for fiscal year 2020; and
``(F) $12,018,508,186 for fiscal year 2021.
On page 337, strike lines 19 through 25 and insert the
following:
``(L) $3,092,472,020 for fiscal year 2016, $3,140,555,000
for fiscal year 2017, $3,444,430,770 for fiscal year 2018,
$3,928,076,240 for fiscal year 2019, $4,027,057,870 for
fiscal year 2020, and $4,129,071,760 for fiscal year 2021
shall be available to carry out section 5337;
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