[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5870]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2464. Mr. THUNE 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 577, strike lines 6 through 17, and insert the 
     following:
       (a) Increase in Civil Penalties.--Section 30165(a) is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by striking ``$5,000'' and inserting ``$21,000''; and
       (B) by striking ``$35,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$105,000,000''; and
       (2) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) by striking ``$5,000'' and inserting ``$21,000''; and
       (B) by striking ``$35,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$105,000,000''.
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