S.Amdt. 1710

SA 1710. Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Markey, Mr.
Menendez, Mr. Heinrich, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1618 proposed by
Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Hatch (for himself and Ms. Murkowski)) to the
bill H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V
of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subpart A of part I of subtitle C, add the
following:

SEC. 13303. EXCEPTION TO REDUCED RATES BASED ON MEDICARE
PROGRAM SEQUESTRATION.

(a) In General.--In any case in which there is a
sequestration under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010
(2 U.S.C. 931 et seq.) that reduces budgetary resources for
the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) because of a debit that is
attributable to the enactment of this title or the amendments
made by this title, the provisions of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 which are amended by section 13001 and 13002
shall each be amended to read as if the amendments made by
such section had not been enacted.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall apply to taxable years beginning after the first fiscal
year to which a sequestration under subsection (a) applies.
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