[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S284-S285]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 126. Mr. COONS (for himself, Mr. Brown, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. King, Mr. 
Van Hollen, Ms. Warren, and Mrs. Gillibrand) 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; as follows:

       At the end of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   PERMIT LIFETIME LIMITS ON HEALTH 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 would 
     permit lifetime limits on health care coverage.
       (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

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     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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