S.Amdt. 1572

SA 1572. Mr. SASSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 748, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle E of title III of
division A, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PAUSING ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS UNDER THE 340B
DRUG PRICING PROGRAM.

Section 340B(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
256B(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(11) Pausing eligibility determinations.--The Secretary
shall, for each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021, pause the
process of determining whether an entity is a covered entity,
as defined in paragraph (4), in response to the COVID-19
public health emergency to ensure that no entity that was
previously determined to be such a covered entity would lose
eligibility status for the program under this section during
such emergency.''.
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