[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2077]
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SA 1078. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Brown,
Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Durbin) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con.
Res. 11, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States
Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PREVENT EMPLOYER
INTERFERENCE IN THEIR EMPLOYEES' BIRTH CONTROL
AND OTHER HEALTH CARE DECISIONS.
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
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to employer-provided health insurance, which may
include measures to protect health insurance from corporate
interference and ensure that employers cannot deny specific
health benefits, including contraception coverage, to any of
their employees or the covered dependents of such employees
entitled by Federal law, including the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, to receive such coverage, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.
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