[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2497. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Ms. Cantwell) 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:

       Strike part IV of subtitle D of title XXXV and insert the 
     following:

                    PART IV--POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL

     SEC. 35441. POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL GRANT PROGRAM.

       Section 20157 is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following:
       ``(i) Grant Program.--
       ``(1) Establishment.--The Secretary of Transportation, in 
     consultation with the Administrator of the Federal Railroad 
     Administration, shall establish a grant program through which 
     passenger railroad carriers are awarded grants to implement a 
     positive train control system in accordance with the plan 
     submitted pursuant to subsection (a).
       ``(2) Transfer of funds.--There shall be available from the 
     general fund of the Treasury $500,000,000 for the 6-year 
     period beginning on the first day of fiscal year 2016 to 
     carry out the grant program established under this 
     section.''.
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