H.R. 152
Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
Rule Hearing Information:
Meeting Time: Monday, January 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM in H-313 The Capitol
Amendment Process: Deadline on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 4:00 PM
For more on this hearing, click here.
Resources:
- Text of H.R. 152 — Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 [PDF][XML]
:: Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute offered by Mr. Rogers of Kentucky to
H.R. 152 [PDF][XML]
—Summary of Mr. Roger's Amendment [PDF]
:: REVISED Amendment offered by Mr. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey to
H.R. 152, revised. [PDF][XML] Revision reflects changes ONLY to this amendment's amendory
language. The text of the amendment has not changed; redrafts to submitted amendments are not necessary.
—Summary of Mr. Frelinghuysen's Amendment [PDF]
**PLEASE NOTE: Members may draft amendments to the amemdment offered by
Chairman Rogers (R-KY) or the amendment offered by Rep. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
- Hearing Documents:
:: Rule [PDF]
:: H. Res. 23 [PDF][XML]
:: H. Rept. 113-1 [PDF][XML]
Amendments:
Last Updated: 01/14/2013 at 9:32 PM
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
| #30 | Version 1 | Benishek (MI) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes the proviso on line 20, restoring the requirement that local investments are required in Historic Preservation Grants. | Made In Order |
| #15 | Version 2 | Bishop, Rob (UT) | Republican | Revised Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior or Agriculture from acquiring any more federal land using funds provided under this emergency supplemental appropriations bill for Hurricane Sandy relief. | Made In Order |
| #71 | Version 1 | Bishop, Tim (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that fishery disaster funding is for declared fishery disasters as a result of Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #78 | Version 2 | Brooks (AL) | Republican | Revised Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Offsets the cost of the bill by zeroing out all foreign aid and assistance except for Israel and Pakistan. | Submitted |
| #79 | Version 1 | Brooks (AL) | Republican | Revised Amendment to ROGERS: Offsets the cost of the bill by zeroing out all foreign aid and assistance except for Israel and Pakistan. | Submitted |
| #7 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Strikes $19,500,000 in funding for a study to address future flood risks. | Submitted |
| #8 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Strikes the section regarding oil spill research. | Submitted |
| #9 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $25,000,000 in funding to “improve weather forecasting and hurricane intensity forecasting capabilities,” among other things. | Submitted |
| #10 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $50,000,000 in funding for “laboratories and cooperative institutes and research activities associated with sustained weather research programs, and ocean and coastal research.” | Submitted |
| #11 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $8,500,000 in funding for “improvements to weather forecasting equipment and supercomputer infrastructure.” | Submitted |
| #12 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $13,000,000 in funding to “accelerate the National Weather Service ground readiness project.” | Made In Order |
| #13 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $111,000,000 in funding for “a weather satellite data mitigation gap reserve fund.” | Submitted |
| #14 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $86,000,000 in funding to “advance capital projects that address Northeast Corridor infrastructure recovery and resiliency in the affected areas.” | Submitted |
| #29 | Version 1 | Campbell (CA), Blumenauer (OR) | Bi-Partisan | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that Corps of Engineers construction projects receiving funds in this legislation will be at full Federal expense only with respect to the funds provided by this legislation. | Made In Order |
| #45 | Version 1 | Capps (CA), Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that long-term recovery includes mitigation of future losses. | Submitted |
| #46 | Version 1 | Capps (CA), Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Clarifies that long-term recovery includes mitigation of future losses. | Submitted |
| #36 | Version 1 | Cassidy (LA), Richmond (LA) | Bi-Partisan | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Inserts the provisions of the 2012 Senate-passed bill (H.R. 1) regarding Hurricane Isaac and the Army Corps of Engineers. | Submitted |
| #37 | Version 1 | Cassidy (LA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Streamlines the appeal process for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). | Submitted |
| #34 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Ensures that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implements the recommendations contained in the FCC’s January 2013 Report of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, “Impact of the June 2012 Derecho on Communica | Submitted |
| #35 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Ensures that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implements the recommendations contained in the FCC’s January 2013 Report of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, “Impact of the June 2012 Derecho on Co | Submitted |
| #93 | Version 1 | Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Provides authority for the FEMA Administrator to allow a State or local government to construct a levee on land purchased through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) - land that would otherwise be preserved as open | Submitted |
| #94 | Version 1 | Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Republican | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Allows a State or local government to construct a levee on land purchased through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) - land that would otherwise be preserved as open space. | Submitted |
| #81 | Version 1 | DeLauro (CT), Larson, John (CT), Himes (CT), Courtney (CT), Esty, Elizabeth (CT), Cicilline (RI), Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Establishes a minimum allocation of provided funding for the Community Development Block Grant program for each eligible State declared a major disaster due to Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #82 | Version 1 | DeLauro (CT), Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Strikes an appropriation prohibition that effectively prevents the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from conducting research or statistical analysis related to gun violence. Strikes an appropriation prohibiti | Submitted |
| #83 | Version 1 | DeLauro (CT), Larson, John (CT), Himes (CT), Courtney (CT), Esty, Elizabeth (CT), Cicilline (RI), Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Establishes a minimum allocation of provided funding for the Community Development Block Grant program for each eligible State declared a major disaster due to Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #89 | Version 1 | Dent (PA), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Ensures proper assistance is provided for emergency work under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #90 | Version 1 | Dent (PA), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Ensures proper assistance is provided for emergency work under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #76 | Version 1 | Diaz-Balart, Mario (FL) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Incentivizes states to have and enforce statewide building codes, including fortified construction standards by increasing by 5% the hazard mitigation grants states receive following a federally declared disaster if the | Submitted |
| #92 | Version 1 | Diaz-Balart, Mario (FL) | Republican | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Provides a tax credit to an eligible contractor who uses resilient construction techniques to rebuild and retrofit homes and businesses following a federally declared disaster area. Applies only to declared disaste | Submitted |
| #3 | Version 1 | Duncan (SC) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strips out the extra $1M for Legal Services Corporation (LSC) and replaces that with a limitation against funding for LSC. | Made In Order |
| #49 | Version 1 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Cuts $9,800,000 from the Fish & Wildlife Service for rebuilding seawalls and buildings on uninhabited islands in the Steward McKinney National Wildlife Refuge in Connecticut. | Made In Order |
| #50 | Version 1 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Cuts $4,200,000 from the US Fish & Wildlife Service for installing new water control equipment on two islands in North Carolina that were not damaged by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #51 | Version 1 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Cuts $3,000,000 from the US Fish & Wildlife Service for relocating undamaged roads in wildlife refuges. | Submitted |
| #91 | Version 1 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Cuts $1,550,000 from the US Fish & Wildlife Service for the National Conservation Training Center in WV. | Submitted |
| #63 | Version 1 | Flores (TX) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $150,000,000 for Regional Ocean Partnership grants. | Made In Order |
| #2 | Version 2 | Frelinghuysen (NJ) | Republican | Revised Provides an additional $33.677 billion in total spending to cover current and anticipated needs in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Sandy. This funding is in addition to the amendment submitted by Chairman Rogers (R-KY). | Made In Order |
| #65 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a study analyzing the challenges faced by agricultural areas and rural communities designated as areas having special flood hazards for the purposes of the national flood insurance pr | Submitted |
| #66 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Establishes a task force to conduct a study to analyze the challenges faced by agricultural areas and rural communities with special flood hazards. Requires the task force, within one year, to generate a report with any recomm | Submitted |
| #73 | Version 2 | Gardner (CO), Polis (CO), Lamborn (CO), Tipton (CO), Perlmutter (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Amendment to ROGERS: Provides $125,000,000 for the Emergency Watershed Protection Program for watershed restoration and to protect infrastructure to any area designated as a major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaste | Submitted |
| #16 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Suspends Davis Bacon requirements for all projects authorized under this bill. | Submitted |
| #17 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Suspends Davis Bacon requirements for all projects authorized under this bill. | Submitted |
| #68 | Version 1 | Holt (NJ) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Lifts the statutory cap on the amount of Community Development Block Grant funds that can be used for the non-federal component of Army Corps project funding. | Submitted |
| #77 | Version 1 | Holt (NJ), Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Requires that all projects and activities funded by this legislation shall use the base available flood hazard data to determine whether they occur in a floodplain and if so, that they be designed and built using FEMA’s best av | Submitted |
| #60 | Version 2 | Huelskamp (KS) | Republican | Revised Amendment to ROGERS: ensure no money under this bill is spent in violation of the Second Amendment rights guaranteed by Section 706 of the Stafford Act. | Submitted |
| #61 | Version 1 | Huelskamp (KS) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Requires FEMA to disclose all disaster relief grants, not just those over $1 million. | Made In Order |
| #86 | Version 1 | Huelskamp (KS) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Prohibits funds in this act from being used to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. | Submitted |
| #25 | Version 1 | Israel (NY), Meng, Grace (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Includes Housing Cooperatives (co-ops)among the entities eligible to apply for assistance through FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP). | Submitted |
| #74 | Version 1 | Issa (CA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Requires funds allocated to the Small Business Administration Disaster Loans Program Account, Federal Railroad Administration Operating Subsidy Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Federal Transit Administrati | Submitted |
| #44 | Version 1 | Keating (MA), Young, Don (AK), Markey, Edward (MA), Tierney (MA), McGovern (MA), Kennedy, Joseph (MA), Pingree (ME) | Bi-Partisan | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Includes offset funding for states issued a fisheries disaster declaration by the Department of Commerce in 2012. | Submitted |
| #84 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Suspends the Davis-Bacon wage requirements for projects funded under this title. | Submitted |
| #87 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Suspends the Davis-Bacon wage requirements for projects funded by the Act. | Submitted |
| #18 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI), DeLauro (CT), Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes the language which makes only New York and New Jersey eligible to receive EPA State and Tribal Assistance Grants. Inserts the Senate-passed language to ensure that all states which received a disaster declaration | Submitted |
| #80 | Version 1 | Larsen, Rick (WA), Huffman, Jared (CA), Bordallo (GU), DelBene (WA) | Democrat | Late Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Provides NOAA discretion in marine debris cleanup. | Submitted |
| #75 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Requires Congress to act on disaster relief funding within 1 week of a federal disaster declaration. | Submitted |
| #24 | Version 1 | Markey, Edward (MA), Keating (MA), Langevin (RI), Kennedy, Joseph (MA), McGovern (MA), Tierney (MA), Pingree (ME), Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Increases emergency funding for declared fishery disasters, to match the level of funding approved by the Senate last month. | Submitted |
| #38 | Version 1 | Matsui (CA) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Authorizes limited pending flood risk reduction projects, provided the projects have a completed Army Corps of Engineers Chief’s Reports that have been transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Army. | Submitted |
| #19 | Version 1 | McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Eliminates the funding for the Community Development Fund ($3.85 billion). | Submitted |
| #20 | Version 1 | McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Eliminates the funding for the Community Development Fund ($16 billion). | Submitted |
| #21 | Version 1 | McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Eliminates the funding for the Federal Highway Administration ($2.022 billion). | Submitted |
| #22 | Version 1 | McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Reduces funding levels to that required for outlay in FY2013 only. | Submitted |
| #23 | Version 1 | McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Reduces funding levels to that required for outlay in FY2013 only. | Submitted |
| #26 | Version 2 | McKinley (WV) | Republican | Revised Amendment to ROGERS: This amendment limits the funds made available in this legislation to be used solely by the United States. No other country may use the funds made available in this legislation. | Submitted |
| #72 | Version 1 | Meng, Grace (NY), Jeffries, Hakeem (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Provides that houses of worship are treated in the same fashion as other private nonprofit facilities when receiving FEMA aid in relation to Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #64 | Version 2 | Miller, George (CA) | Democrat | Revised Amendment to ROGERS: Directs up to $20 million from the Social Services Block Grant for need-based subgrants to local school districts for activities authorized by the McKinney-Vento Act, including transportation, to support the educational | Submitted |
| #67 | Version 2 | Miller, George (CA) | Democrat | Revised Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Directs up to $20 million from the Social Services Block Grant for need-based subgrants to local school districts for activities authorized by the McKinney-Vento Act, including transportation, to support the educ | Submitted |
| #4 | Version 1 | Mulvaney (SC), McClintock (CA), Duncan (SC), Lummis (WY) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Provides an offset of the $17 billion in emergency funding to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. The offset is achieved by an across the board cut of 1.63 percent to all discretiona | Made In Order |
| #5 | Version 1 | Mulvaney (SC), Scalise (LA), McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Provides an offset of the $17 billion in emergency funding to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. The offset is achieved by: 1) ending transit subsidies for federal employees; 2) eli | Submitted |
| #6 | Version 1 | Mulvaney (SC), Garrett (NJ), McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Provides greater accountability to the expenditure of funds to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. Requires periodic reports from federal agencies and state executives that identify | Submitted |
| #32 | Version 1 | Pallone (NJ) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Increases fisheries disaster funding by $45,000,000. | Submitted |
| #28 | Version 1 | Pascrell (NJ) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Eliminates the cap on the States’ abilities to provide additional subsidization in the form of grants or principal forgiveness to communities receiving a loan from the State Revolving Fund program. Provides States with a | Submitted |
| #43 | Version 2 | Pearce (NM) | Republican | Revised Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Provides disaster relief to fire damaged areas across the United States and provides funding to reduce the risk of future wildfires. | Submitted |
| #39 | Version 1 | Posey (FL) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Offsets the grant of relief funds to any individual or entity by the amount of any seriously delinquent tax debt or any non-tax debt owed the federal government. | Submitted |
| #40 | Version 1 | Posey (FL) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Prohibits the distribution of relief funds to deceased persons. | Submitted |
| #41 | Version 1 | Posey (FL) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Establishes a cost recovery provision whereby the value of relief funds provided to homeowners for repairs shall be recovered from the net proceeds, if any, from the sale of said property. | Submitted |
| #42 | Version 1 | Posey (FL) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Limits relief funds to those made pursuant to a cost recovery provision whereby the value of relief funds provided to homeowners for repairs shall be recovered from the net proceeds, if any, from the sale of said property. | Submitted |
| #88 | Version 1 | Posey (FL) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Provides that no funds made available by this Act may be expended for any disaster relief that does not directly address the consequences of Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #47 | Version 1 | Price, Tom (GA) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Treats spending in this bill as non supplemental spending and subject to the discretionary spending cap of the Budget Control Act. | Submitted |
| #1 | Version 1 | Rogers, Harold (KY) | Republican | SUBSTITUTE Provides $17 billion in emergency funding to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. | Made In Order |
| #69 | Version 1 | Rokita (IN) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Provides an across-the-board cut of 3.2 percent to nondefense discretionary programs. | Submitted |
| #70 | Version 1 | Rokita (IN), McClintock (CA) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Provides an across-the-board cut of 6.24 percent to nondefense discretionary programs. | Submitted |
| #31 | Version 1 | Runyan (NJ) | Republican | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that the fisheries disaster money in the Frelinghuysen amendment is intended for states that were BOTH impacted by Hurricane Sandy and suffered a fisheries disaster in 2012. | Made In Order |
| #27 | Version 1 | Schweikert (AZ) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Instructs the Treasury to conduct a study of interest in the potential issuance of 70-99 year Government bonds. Depending on market interest, Treasury is instructed to issue such long duration bonds as appropriate depending on | Submitted |
| #85 | Version 1 | Smith, Christopher (NJ) | Republican | Late Amendment to ROGERS: Ensures houses of worship that were damaged during Hurricane Sandy are eligible for federal assistance. | Submitted |
| #62 | Version 1 | Thornberry (TX) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Requires OMB to submit a report to Congress not later than September 30, 2017, listing the amount of funds made available under this Act that remain unobligated. | Submitted |
| #48 | Version 1 | Tierney (MA), Keating (MA), Markey, Edward (MA), Young, Don (AK), Pingree (ME), Courtney (CT), Kennedy, Joseph (MA), McGovern (MA), Shea-Porter, Carol (NH) | Bi-Partisan | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Increases funding for fisheries disaster assistance by $145 million, the level approved by the Senate, and reduces Commerce/NOAA funding that is not specified for Hurricane Sandy relief. | Submitted |
| #52 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Makes funds available for elimination of conditions which are detrimental to health that were caused by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #53 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Ensures that the funding in this legislation is directed to the reconstruction or rehabilitation of public housing buildings that were severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #54 | Version 3 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Revised Amendment to Frelinghuysen: Increases the funding to the National Cemetery Administration by $1 million for the purposes of repairing veterans’ cemeteries damaged by Hurricane Sandy. | Made In Order |
| #55 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Ensures that the funding in this legislation is directed to repair and renovate the Veterans Affairs’ Medical Center in Manhattan, New York, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. | Submitted |
| #56 | Version 2 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Revised Amendment to Frelinghuysen: Increases the Community Development Fund appropriation amount by $25 million offset by reductions elsewhere in the bill. | Made In Order |
| #57 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Ensures that any State or local government entities receiving CDBG funding for long-term disaster relief efforts are addressing the repair and rehabilitation needs of public housing buildings and units damaged by Hurrica | Submitted |
| #58 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Amendment to ROGERS: Ensures that any State or local government entities receiving CDBG funding for short-term disaster relief efforts are addressing the repair and rehabilitation needs of public housing buildings and units damaged by Hurricane San | Submitted |
| #33 | Version 1 | Waxman (CA) | Democrat | Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Requires the Corps of Engineers to consider projected sea level rise attributable to climate change when conducting a comprehensive study to address the flood risks of vulnerable coastal populations in areas that were af | Submitted |
| #59 | Version 1 | Westmoreland (GA), Mulvaney (SC) | Republican | Amendment to ROGERS: Requires FEMA to detail the specific actions the Administrator plans to take to repay the National Flood Insurance Program debt within 10 years. | Submitted |
Rule Information for H.R. 152
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY VOICE VOTE on Monday, January 14, 2013.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 23:
Adopted by record vote of 367-52, after agreeing to the previous question of 293-127, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
MANAGERS: Cole/Slaughter
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A of the Rules Committee report shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment and shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against the amendment in the nature of a substitute.
6. Makes in order only the amendment printed in part B of the report to the amendment in the nature of a substitute.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendment printed in part B.
8. Provides that after the disposition of the amendment printed in part B, the Chair shall put the question on the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A.
9. Provides that if the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A is not adopted, the Committee of the Whole shall rise and report that it has come to no resolution on the bill. If the amendment in the nature of a substitute is adopted, the amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment.
10. Makes in order only those further amendments printed in part C of the report.
11. Provides that at the conclusion of consideration of the amendments printed in part C, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill, to the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A, or to amendment number 1 printed in part C.
12. Provides that each such amendment printed in part B and part C of the report may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment (except as specified in the report), and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
13. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
14. Directs the Clerk to, int he engrossment of H.R. 152, add the text of H.R. 219, as passed by the House, as a new matter at the end of H.R. 152; conform the title of H.R. 152 to reflect the addition of the text of H.R. 219, as passed by the House, to the engrossment; assign appropriate designations to provisions within the engrossment; and conform cross-references and provisions for short titles within the engrossment.
Summary of Amendment in Part A Proposed to be Made in Order:
(summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)
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Description
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Provides $17 billion in emergency funding to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Summary of Amendment in Part B Proposed to be Made in Order:
(summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)
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Description
Debate Time
#4
Amendment to ROGERS: Provides an offset of the $17 billion in emergency funding to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. The offset is achieved by an across the board cut of 1.63 percent to all discretionary appropriations for fiscal year 2013.
Summary of Amendments in Part C Proposed to be Made in Order:
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#2
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(REVISED) Provides an additional $33.677 billion in total spending to cover current and anticipated needs in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Sandy. This funding is in addition to the amendment submitted by Chairman Rogers (R-KY).
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(20 minutes)
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#63
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $150,000,000 for Regional Ocean Partnership grants.
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#31
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that the fisheries disaster money in the Frelinghuysen amendment is intended for states that were BOTH impacted by Hurricane Sandy and suffered a fisheries disaster in 2012.
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(10 minutes)
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#12
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes $13,000,000 in funding to “accelerate the National Weather Service ground readiness project.”
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(10 minutes)
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#3
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strips out the extra $1M for Legal Services Corporation (LSC) and replaces that with a limitation against funding for LSC.
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(10 minutes)
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#29
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Clarifies that Corps of Engineers construction projects receiving funds in this legislation will be at full Federal expense only with respect to the funds provided by this legislation.
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(10 minutes)
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#56
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(REVISED) Amendment to Frelinghuysen: Increases the Community Development Fund appropriation amount by $25 million offset by reductions elsewhere in the bill.
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(10 minutes)
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#61
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Requires FEMA to disclose all disaster relief grants, not just those over $1 million.
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(10 minutes)
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#49
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Cuts $9,800,000 from the Fish & Wildlife Service for rebuilding seawalls and buildings on uninhabited islands in the Steward McKinney National Wildlife Refuge in Connecticut.
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(10 minutes)
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#30
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Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Strikes the proviso on line 20, restoring the requirement that local investments are required in Historic Preservation Grants.
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#15
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(REVISED) Amendment to FRELINGHUYSEN: Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior or Agriculture from acquiring any more federal land using funds provided under this emergency supplemental appropriations bill for Hurricane Sandy relief.
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(10 minutes)
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#54
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(REVISED) Amendment to Frelinghuysen: Increases the funding to the National Cemetery Administration by $1 million for the purposes of repairing veterans’ cemeteries damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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(10 minutes)
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