[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2383. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2266 proposed by Mr. McConnell 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:

       On page 38, strike lines 1 through 11 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(ii) Adjustments to amounts.--The initial amounts 
     resulting from the calculation under clause (i) shall be 
     adjusted to ensure that, for each State, of the estimated tax 
     payments attributable to highway users in the State paid into 
     the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) 
     in the most recent fiscal year for which data are available, 
     the amount shall be--

       ``(I) for each of fiscal years 2016 and 2017, 96 percent;
       ``(II) for fiscal year 2018, 97 percent; and
       ``(III) for each of fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2021, and each 
     fiscal year thereafter, 98 percent.

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