S.Amdt. 1562

SA 1562. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr.
Booker) 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
PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF
SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY.

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
prohibiting discrimination, such as in employment, federally
funded programs and activities, public accommodations,
education, housing, jury selection, or access to credit,
against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or
gender identity, 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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