S.Amdt. 119

SA 119. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution
S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026; 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 RELATING TO
PROTECTING RURAL HOSPITALS THAT LOST REVENUE
AND SAW AN INCREASE IN UNINSURED PATIENTS AS A
RESULT OF REPEALING THE MEDICAID EXPANSION AND
THE EXCHANGES.

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
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to protecting rural hospitals that lost revenue and
saw an increase in the number of uninsured patients due to
the repeal of the Medicaid expansion and the Exchanges under
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law
111-148) to ensure that amounts equal to amounts provided
under such Act continue to be provided to such facilities 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 2017
through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2017
through 2026.
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