[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 22, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5472-S5473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2282. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2266 submitted by Mr. McConnell and intended to be 
proposed to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the 
Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of 
determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ABORTION.

       (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law and except as described in subsections (b) and (c), no 
     funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of 
     the funds in any trust fund to which Federal funds are 
     authorized or appropriated, including Federal grant awards 
     and reimbursements, may be made available to any entity 
     unless the entity certifies that, during the period of 
     receipt and use of such Federal funds, the entity will not 
     perform, and will not provide any funds to any other entity 
     that performs, an abortion.
       (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with 
     respect to an abortion where --
       (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or
       (2) a physician certifies that the woman suffers from a 
     physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that 
     would place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion

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     is performed, including a life-threatening physical condition 
     caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.
       (c) Hospitals.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect 
     to a hospital, so long as such hospital does not, during the 
     period of receipt and use of Federal funds described in 
     subsection (a), provide funds to any non-hospital entity that 
     performs an abortion (other than an abortion described in 
     subsection (b)).
       (d) Definitions.--In this section--
       (1) the term ``entity'' includes the entire legal entity, 
     including any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is 
     under common control with such entity; and
       (2) the term ``hospital'' has the meaning given such term 
     in section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1395x(e)).
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