[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6399]
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SA 3699. Ms. HASSAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION UNDER
MEDICARE PART D.
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
preventing Medicare beneficiaries from experiencing
interruptions in access to crucial medicines, which may
include requiring that prior authorizations approved by a
Medicare prescription drug plan for a beneficiary during the
current plan year be considered approved in subsequent plan
years until the prescription drug benefit redesign under
Medicare part D is fully implemented, by the amounts provided
in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of
the total of fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
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