S.Amdt. 150

SA 150. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Bennet, Mr.
Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Warner) 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 HELPING
STATES, COUNTIES, AND INDIAN TRIBES ADDRESS THE
RECENT INCREASE IN FOSTER CARE ENTRIES DRIVEN
BY THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.

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 helping States, counties, and Indian Tribes
address the recent increase in foster care entries driven by
the opioid epidemic through means such as allowing Federal
child welfare matching funds to be used for substance use
treatment and other evidence-based programs to help families
stay safely together, providing resources to grandparents and
other relatives, and improving the quality and oversight of
Federally-funded foster care programs, 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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