Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 115 Part 3.djvu/432

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115 STAT. 2506 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 10, 2001 (1) IN GENERAL.— Subject to paragraph (2), if the Senate Committee on Finance or the House Committee on Ways and Means or Committee on Energy and Commerce report a bill, or if an amendment thereto is offered or a conference report thereon is submitted, that repeals the 15 percent reduction in payments under the Medicare Program to home health agencies enacted by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and now scheduled to go into effect on October 1, 2002, the appropriate chairman of the Committee on the Budget may increase the allocation of new budget authority and outlays to that committee and other appropriate budgetary aggregates and levels by the amount provided by that measure for that purpose, but not to exceed $0 in new budget authority and outlays in fiscal year 2002, $4,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2006, and $13,700,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2011. (2) SURPLUS. —Legislation described in paragraph (1) may not, when taken together with all other previously-enacted legislation (except for legislation enacted pursuant to subsection (a)), reduce the on-budget surplus below the level of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund surplus in any fiscal year covered by this resolution. SEC. 212. RESERVE FUND FOR FAMILY OPPORTUNITY ACT. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), if the Committee on Finance of the Senate or the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives reports a bill or joint resolution, or if an amendment thereto is offered or a conference report thereon is submitted, that provides States with the opportunity to expand Medicaid coverage for children with special needs, allowing families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage under the Medicaid Program for such children (commonly referred to as the "Family Opportunity Act of 2001"), the appropriate chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise committee allocations for that committee and other appropriate budgetary aggregates and allocations of new budget authority (and the outlays resulting therefrom) in this resolution by the amount provided by that measure for that purpose, but not to exceed $227,000,000 in new budget authority and $180,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2002, $3,035,000,000 in new budget authority and $2,724,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2006, and $8,337,000,000 in new budget authority and $7,867,000,000 in outlays for the period of fiscal years 2002 through 2011. (b) SURPLUS.— Legislation described in subsection (a) may not, when taken together with all other previously-enacted legislation (except for legislation enacted pursuant to section 211), reduce the on-budget surplus below the level of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund surplus in any fiscal year covered by this resolution. SEC. 213. RESERVE FUND FOR AGRICULTURE. (a) IN GENERAL.— (1) Subject to subsection (b), if the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate or the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives reports a bill, or an amendment thereto is offered, or a conference report thereon is submitted, to reauthorize the Federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 1996, title I of that Act, and other appropriate