S.Amdt. 1172

SA 1172. Mr. NELSON (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Menendez, Mrs.
Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, and Mr. Murphy) submitted an amendment intended
to be proposed to amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the
concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and
setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019
through 2027; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROVIDE MEDICAID
AND CHIP FISCAL RELIEF FOR TEXAS, FLORIDA,
PUERTO RICO AND OTHER UNITED STATES TERRITORIES
IMPACTED BY HURRICANE HARVEY, HURRICANE IRMA OR
HURRICANE MARIA.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
providing fiscal relief through the Medicaid and Children's
Health Insurance Programs for Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and
other United States territories impacted by Hurricane Harvey,
Hurricane Irma, or Hurricane Maria, including by increasing
both the Federal medical assistance percentage and the
enhanced FMAP for fiscal year 2018 for such States and
territories to 100 percent and by increasing the total amount
certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under
section 1108 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1308) for
payments to Puerto Rico and the other territories under title
XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) for fiscal year
2018, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal
years 2018 through 2022 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2018 through 2027.
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