[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 150. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Warner) 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 HELPING 
                   STATES, COUNTIES, AND INDIAN TRIBES ADDRESS THE 
                   RECENT INCREASE IN FOSTER CARE ENTRIES DRIVEN 
                   BY THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.

       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 helping States, counties, and Indian Tribes 
     address the recent increase in foster care entries driven by 
     the opioid epidemic through means such as allowing Federal 
     child welfare matching funds to be used for substance use 
     treatment and other evidence-based programs to help families 
     stay safely together, providing resources to grandparents and 
     other relatives, and improving the quality and oversight of 
     Federally-funded foster care programs, 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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