[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S215]
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SA 84. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. King)
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 III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REMOVING
THE MEDICAID IMD EXCLUSION AND INCREASING
FUNDING FOR FEDERAL INVESTMENTS IN MENTAL
HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to increasing funding for Federal investments in
mental health and substance use disorder treatment, including
for the Medicaid expansion population, and which may include
allowing Federal funding for services provided under State
Medicaid plans to treat individuals with substance use
disorders in institutions for mental diseases,
notwithstanding the limitation of subdivision (B) following
paragraph (29) of section 1905(a) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1396d(a)), or supporting workforce and
infrastructure capacity to treat individuals suffering from
mental illness or substance use disorders, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through
2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through
2026.
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