[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 140 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3953. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
       Sec. ___. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available to the Department of Health and Human Services 
     by this Act may be used to approve a new waiver of the 
     Medicaid non-emergency medical transportation requirement 
     pursuant to an application received by the Secretary on or 
     after August 1, 2018, unless a State applying for a waiver of 
     such required services certifies the State will--
       (1) reinstate such services if the rate of or attendance at 
     appointments for Medicaid-approved services declines; and
       (2) provide a sufficient amount of financial resources from 
     non-Federal funds previously used to provide required 
     services to support non-emergency medical transportation 
     under locally developed coordinated transportation plans (as 
     required under section 5310 of title 49, United States Code) 
     at service levels necessary to maintain the rate of and 
     attendance at appointments for Medicaid-approved services.
       (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available to the Department of Health and Human by this Act 
     may be used to renew or continue a waiver issued pursuant to 
     the conditions of subsection (a) if a State fails to maintain 
     compliance with such conditions.
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