[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6589]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1395. Mr. KING 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 RELATING TO 
                   ADDRESSING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC BY PROVIDING 
                   ACCESS TO PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND SUBSTANCE USE 
                   DISORDER TREATMENT FUNDING FOR STRONG 
                   INTERDICTION EFFORTS, WITH A PARTICULAR 
                   EMPHASIS ON RURAL COMMUNITIES.

       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 
     addressing the opioid epidemic by providing access to 
     prevention programs and substance use disorder treatment and 
     funding for strong interdiction efforts, with a particular 
     emphasis on rural communities 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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