[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2373. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her 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 end of title LXII of division F, add the following:

     SEC. 62002. APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN SANCTIONS UNDER CLEAN 
                   AIR ACT.

       (a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be subject to any 
     sanction under section 179(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 
     U.S.C. 7509(b)(1)) based on the failure of a State to comply 
     with any proposed, modified, or final rule described in 
     subsection (b).
       (b) Description of Rule.--A rule referred to in subsection 
     (a) is--
       (1) any proposed or final rule to address carbon dioxide 
     emissions from existing sources that are fossil fuel-fired 
     electric utility generating units under section 111 of the 
     Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411), including any final rule that 
     succeeds--
       (A) the proposed rule entitled ``Carbon Pollution Emission 
     Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility 
     Generating Units'' (79 Fed. Reg. 34830 (June 18, 2014)); or
       (B) the supplemental proposed rule entitled ``Carbon 
     Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary 
     Sources: EGUs in Indian Country and U.S. Territories; Multi-
     Jurisdictional Partnerships'' (79 Fed. Reg. 65482 (November 
     4, 2014));
       (2) any proposed or final rule, in whole or in part, under 
     section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411) that 
     establishes a standard of performance for emissions of any 
     greenhouse gas from any new source, modified source, or 
     reconstructed source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric 
     utility generating unit; or
       (3) any national primary or secondary ambient air quality 
     standard for ozone that is lower than the standard 
     established under section 50.15 of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (as in effect on January 1, 2015).
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