[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5876-S5877]
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SA 2493. Mr. MENENDEZ 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
care 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 334, strike lines 6 through 21 and insert the
following:
``(1) In general.--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 sections
21007(b) and 21021 of the Federal Public Transportation Act
of 2015--
``(A) $9,214,747,400 for fiscal year 2016;
``(B) $9,410,039,349 for fiscal year 2017;
``(C) $9,715,745,744 for fiscal year 2018;
``(D) $10,131,051,238 for fiscal year 2019;
``(E) $10,381,763,806 for fiscal year 2020; and
``(F) $10,639,442,553 for fiscal year 2021.
On page 335, line 5, strike ``$10,000,000'' and insert
``$20,000,000''.
On page 339, line 2, strike ``and''.
On page 339, strike line 5 and insert the following:
out section 5322(b); and
``(Q) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through
2021 shall be available to carry out section 21021 of the
Federal Public Transportation Act of 2015.
On page 358, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following:
[[Page S5877]]
SEC. 21021. PILOT PROGRAM FOR VALUE CAPTURE.
The Secretary shall establish and implement a pilot program
to demonstrate whether transit agencies can use value capture
as a tool to promote transit-oriented or sustainable
development and as a flexible source of revenue.
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