[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6688]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1525. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
Bennet, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Booker, Mr. Warner, Mr. Casey, Ms. Heitkamp, 
and Ms. Warren) 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 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, 
     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 
     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 2018 through 
     2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 
     2027.
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