[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 63. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Markey, Mr. Durbin, 
Ms. Hassan, Mr. Brown, Mr. Udall, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
Leahy, Mr. King, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Carper, Mrs. 
Feinstein, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
Cardin, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. 
Res. 3, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026; which was ordered 
to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   REDUCE ACCESS TO SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER 
                   PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND RECOVERY SERVICES 
                   AND WORSEN THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would 
     reduce the expansion of access to substance use disorder 
     prevention, treatment, and recovery services established 
     through the expansion of the Medicaid program under section 
     XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) and 
     the consumer protections in the health insurance market, 
     including protections for individuals with pre-existing 
     conditions, the establishment of mental health and substance 
     use disorder services as essential health benefits, the 
     requirement that preventive services such as substance use 
     disorder screenings be covered without cost-sharing at the 
     point of service, and the expansion of mental health parity 
     and addiction equity law to cover health plans in the 
     individual market, and in so doing, worsen the opioid 
     epidemic.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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