[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 138 (Monday, August 20, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3756. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title V of division B, insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act or by previous appropriations Acts may be used to 
     process a claim for payment under title XIX of the Social 
     Security Act to a State that imposes a health care-related 
     tax on a provider of items or services under the State 
     Medicaid program that exceeds 4 percent of net patient 
     revenue. In this section, the terms ``health care-related 
     tax'' and ``net patient revenue'' have the meaning given 
     those terms for purposes of section 433.68 of title 14, Code 
     of Federal Regulations.
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