S.Amdt. 1459

SA 1459. Mr. REED 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 RELATING TO SECURING
THE LONG-TERM INTEGRITY OF THE AMERICAN
WORKFORCE BY MODERNIZING UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION TO HELP INSURE AGAINST JOB LOSS
DUE TO AUTOMATION, ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS, AND
DISASTERS.

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
securing the long-term integrity of the American workforce by
modernizing unemployment compensation, including by insuring
against job loss due to automation, economic downturns and
disasters, 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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