[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5740-S5741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2415. Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Carper, and Mr. Menendez) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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

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was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
       On page 334, strike lines 6 through 23 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Amounts made available.--There shall be available 
     from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to 
     carry out sections 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 
     5322(b), 5322(d), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, section 
     20005(b) of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, 
     and section 21007(b) of the Federal Public Transportation Act 
     of 2015--
       ``(i) $9,284,747,400 for fiscal year 2016;
       ``(ii) $9,480,039,349 for fiscal year 2017;
       ``(iii) $9,785,745,744 for fiscal year 2018;
       ``(iv) $10,201,051,238 for fiscal year 2019;
       ``(v) $10,451,763,806 for fiscal year 2020; and
       ``(vi) $10,709,442,533 for fiscal year 2021.
       ``(B) Allocation of funds for high density state 
     apportionments.--Of the amounts made available under 
     subparagraph (A), $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 
     through 2021 shall be allocated in accordance with section 
     5340(d).
       ``(2) Allocation of funds.--Of the amounts made available 
     under paragraph (1)(A)--
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