S.Amdt. 1556

SA 1556. Mr. FRANKEN (for himself and Mr. Casey) 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-REDUCTION RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PREVENTING WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION.

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
ensuring that workers are appropriately classified as
employees or independent contractors for purposes of labor
law and payroll taxes, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would reduce the deficit over both the period of
the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2022 and the period of
the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027.
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