S.Amdt. 3756

SA 3756. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157,
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title V of division B, insert the following:
Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or made available
by this Act or by previous appropriations Acts may be used to
process a claim for payment under title XIX of the Social
Security Act to a State that imposes a health care-related
tax on a provider of items or services under the State
Medicaid program that exceeds 4 percent of net patient
revenue. In this section, the terms ``health care-related
tax'' and ``net patient revenue'' have the meaning given
those terms for purposes of section 433.68 of title 14, Code
of Federal Regulations.
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