S.Amdt. 1316

SA 1316. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14,
establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government
for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels
for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PREVENTING VETERANS SUICIDE AND STRENGTHENING
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
preventing veterans suicide and strengthening mental health
services, including legislation that would ensure that staff
and programs related to or administered by the Office of
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention of the Department of
Veterans Affairs are not reduced below the fiscal year 2024
levels due to hiring freezes, deferred resignation, buyout
offers, reductions in force, mass terminations, layoffs,
funding freezes, or reductions in services or outreach due to
cancellations of contracts, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of
the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
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