[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 138 (Thursday, September 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6943]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2679. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 61, amending 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:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel to provide assistance under the 
     supplemental nutrition assistance program established under 
     the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) 
     until the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture 
     certifies that each State agency has instituted procedures to 
     ensure that all able-bodied recipients of assistance under 
     the program in that State who are between 18 and 49 years of 
     age and without dependents are required to comply with the 
     requirements of a work program for at least 20 hours each 
     week during any period in which the recipients receive 
     assistance under the program.
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