[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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