S.Amdt. 788

SA 788. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2022 through 2030; 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 LEGISLATION THAT WOULD
REDUCE THE ELIGIBILITY OF VETERANS TO SEEK
CONVENIENT HEALTH CARE FROM COMMUNITY PROVIDERS
CLOSER TO THEIR HOMES.

(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 would
reduce the eligibility of veterans enrolled in the health
care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs to seek
health care from community providers and, in turn, reduce
convenient access by such veterans to health care closer to
the homes of such veterans.
(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

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be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair
on a point of order raised under subsection (a).
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