S.Amdt. 3362

SA 3362. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR
ABORTION.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment,
amendment between the Houses, or conference report that
provides taxpayer funding for abortion.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of
the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
subsection (a).
(c) Legislation That Provides Taxpayer Funding for
Abortion.--For purposes of subsection (a), the term
``provides taxpayer funding for abortion'' with respect to
legislation means any provision of a bill, joint resolution,
motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or
conference report, that would--
(1) authorize or appropriate Federal funds without
prohibiting such funds, and funds in any trust fund into
which such funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal
law, from being expended for any abortion or for any health
benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion;
(2) cause an increase in outlays or reduction in revenues
attributable to any credit allowed under the internal revenue
laws with respect to, coverage under a qualified health plan
offered through an Exchange established pursuant to title I
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (Public
Law 111-148) continuation coverage, or any other coverage,
without excluding, for purposes of such credit, any coverage
that includes coverage of abortion; or
(3) provide for the establishment of any public health
insurance option administered by the Federal government or a
State or local government without excluding coverage of
abortion under such public option.
(d) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect
to funding for an abortion--
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or
incest; or
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical
disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a
life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from
the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a
physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an
abortion is performed.
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