[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1172. Mr. NELSON (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Menendez, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, and Mr. Murphy) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed to amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the 
concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional 
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and 
setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 
through 2027; 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 TO PROVIDE MEDICAID 
                   AND CHIP FISCAL RELIEF FOR TEXAS, FLORIDA, 
                   PUERTO RICO AND OTHER UNITED STATES TERRITORIES 
                   IMPACTED BY HURRICANE HARVEY, HURRICANE IRMA OR 
                   HURRICANE MARIA.

       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, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     providing fiscal relief through the Medicaid and Children's 
     Health Insurance Programs for Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and 
     other United States territories impacted by Hurricane Harvey, 
     Hurricane Irma, or Hurricane Maria, including by increasing 
     both the Federal medical assistance percentage and the 
     enhanced FMAP for fiscal year 2018 for such States and 
     territories to 100 percent and by increasing the total amount 
     certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under 
     section 1108 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1308) for 
     payments to Puerto Rico and the other territories under title 
     XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) for fiscal year 
     2018, 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 2018 through 2022 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2018 through 2027.
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