[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1160-S1161]
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SA 210. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States
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Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; 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 EXPANDING
NATIONWIDE COVERAGE OF, AND ACCESS TO,
FERTILITY TREATMENT, INCLUDING IN VITRO
FERTILIZATION.
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
reproductive health care, which may include expanding
nationwide coverage of, and access to, fertility treatment,
including in vitro fertilization, or that is consistent with
widely accepted and evidence-based medical standards of care,
or to protect an individual's right to make decisions, in
consultation with the individual's health care provider,
about the most appropriate medical care to maximize the
chance of becoming pregnant and giving birth to a healthy,
living, human child with the help of fertility treatment 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 2025 through
2034.
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