[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 93. Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mr. Carper, and Mrs. Gillibrand) 
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__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   REDUCE AMERICANS' ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY 
                   MATERNITY CARE COVERAGE.

       (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, 
     according to the Congressional Budget Office, would reduce 
     the number of Americans with insurance coverage of maternity 
     care and childbirth as afforded in the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148).
       (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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