Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I'm assuming that everybody has the amendments? Okay.
Mr. Chair, what we found during the discussion at committee, when we had all the stakeholders and all the witnesses here, was that we noticed that some language was missing on the enhancement part, which had to do with the drop-out clauses that are in the base. We heard from many witnesses that this should be fixed. They weren't aware of it, so on the many times I've been speaking on it in the House I was saying to bring it to committee to see if we can get it changed here.
These amendments are absolutely critical. The language is very critical in making sure it's put in for the enhancements so that women and people with disabilities will not be penalized going forward on the enhancements. I'm encouraging this committee to accept the amendments and also to vote on them to make sure the bill is not flawed.