[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S283]
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  SA 119. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) 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 
                   PROTECTING RURAL HOSPITALS THAT LOST REVENUE 
                   AND SAW AN INCREASE IN UNINSURED PATIENTS AS A 
                   RESULT OF REPEALING THE MEDICAID EXPANSION AND 
                   THE EXCHANGES.

       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 protecting rural hospitals that lost revenue and 
     saw an increase in the number of uninsured patients due to 
     the repeal of the Medicaid expansion and the Exchanges under 
     the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 
     111-148) to ensure that amounts equal to amounts provided 
     under such Act continue to be provided to such facilities 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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