[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 82. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Murray, Ms. 
Hassan, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Shaheen, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mr. Brown, Mr. Carper, Mr. Udall, and Mr. Cardin) submitted 
an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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__. DON'T MAKE WOMEN SICK AGAIN.

       (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 makes 
     women sick again by eliminating or reducing access to women's 
     health care, including decreases in access to, or coverage 
     of, reproductive health care services including contraceptive 
     counseling, birth control, and maternity care, and primary 
     and preventive health care as afforded to them under the 
     Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-
     148).
       (b) Legislation That Makes Women Sick Again.--For the 
     purposes of subsection (a), the term ``makes women sick 
     again'' with respect to legislation refers to any provision 
     of a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment 
     between the Houses, or conference report, that would--
       (1) allow insurance companies to discriminate against women 
     by--
       (A) charging women higher premiums for health care based on 
     their gender;
       (B) allowing pregnancy to be used as a pre-existing 
     condition by which to deny women coverage;
       (C) permitting discrimination against providers who provide 
     reproductive health care benefits or services to women; or
       (D) otherwise discriminating against women based on their 
     gender;
       (2) reduce the number of women enrolled in health insurance 
     coverage, as certified by the Congressional Budget Office; or
       (3) eliminate, or reduce the scope or scale of, the 
     benefits women would have received pursuant to the 
     requirements under title I of the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) and the amendments 
     made to that title.
       (c) 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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