[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11329]
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    CONSOLIDATED OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1985 AMENDMENT

  Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask unanimous consent the Finance Committee be 
discharged of H.R. 3056, and further the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 3056) to permit a county-operated health 
     insuring organization to qualify as an organization exempt 
     from certain requirements otherwise applicable to health 
     ensuring organizations under the Medicaid Program 
     notwithstanding that the organization enrolls Medicaid 
     beneficiaries residing in another county.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the bill?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be deemed read a 
third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, 
and that any statements pertaining to the bill appear at this point in 
the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 3056) was deemed read for a third time and passed.

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