[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6671-S6672]
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SA 1469. Mr. CASSIDY 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
LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CARE IN
MEDICAID.
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
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between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating
to legislation that would improve the quality of care in the
Medicaid program, which may include streamlining care
delivery, rewarding high-quality care, increasing the ability
of States to innovate, improving oversight of waste, fraud,
and abuse, and improving quality metrics, 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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