[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5873-S5874]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2485.  Mr. BROWN 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:


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       On page 348, strike lines 11 through 18 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Authority.--The Secretary may make grants under this 
     subsection to eligible recipients to assist in the financing 
     of bus and bus facilities capital projects, including--
       ``(i) replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing, or leasing 
     buses or related equipment; and
       ``(ii) rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing, or leasing 
     bus-related facilities.
       ``(B) Eligible recipients and subrecipients.--
       ``(i) Recipients.--An eligible recipient under this 
     subsection is--

       ``(I) a designated recipient that allocates funds to a 
     fixed route bus operator; or
       ``(II) a State or local governmental entity that operates 
     fixed route bus service.

       ``(ii) Subrecipients.--An eligible recipient that receives 
     a grant under this subsection may allocate amounts of the 
     grant to a subrecipient that is a public agency or private 
     nonprofit organization engaged in public transportation.
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