S.Amdt. 1525

SA 1525. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Bennet, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Booker, Mr. Warner, Mr. Casey, Ms. Heitkamp,
and Ms. Warren) 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 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,
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
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 2018 through
2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through
2027.
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