Amendments
Amendments to H.R. 4660 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
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To view the amendments to H.R. 4660 that were preprinted in the Congressional Record, please click here. Lynch (D-MA) - Page 3, Line 10 - Increases funding for Drug Courts by $3 million, reduces funding for the International Trade Administration by the same amount.
Davis (D-CA) - Page 3, Line 10 - Increases funding for the International Trade Administration by $3 million, reduces funding for the Bureau of Prisons by the same amount.
Reichert (R-WA) - Page 3, Line 10 - Increases funding for the COPS program by $110 million, reduces funding for the Census Bureau by the same amount.
Kildee (D-MI) - Page 3, Line 10 - Increases the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center by $10 million, reduces funding for NASA-Exploration by $10 million.
Langevin (D-RI) - Page 4, Line 21 - The intent of the amendment is to direct $5 million within the Bureau of Industry and Security to to the National Institute of Science and Technologies to conduct a cybersecurity framework survey.
Cicilline (D-RI) - Page 5, Line 17 - The amendment seeks to ensure funds are available for grants under Sec. 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (Regional Innovation Program).
Pompeo (R-KS) - Page 5, Line 17 - Eliminates all funding for the Economic Development Administration ($247.5 million) and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Gibson (R-NY) - Page 7, Line 17 - Increases funding for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force by $4 million, reduces funding for the Census Bureau by the same amount.
McNerney (D-CA) - Page 7, Line 17 - Increases funding for the COPS program by $3 million (intended for the Technology Grant Program), reduces the Census Bureau by the same amount.
Bridenstine (R-OK) - Page 7, Line 17 - Increases funding for NOAA-Operations, Research, and Facilities by $12 million (intended for weather research), reduces the Census Bureau by the same amount.
Nugent (R-FL) - Page 7, Line 17 - Increases funding for Veterans' Mental Health Treatment Courts and Mentally Ill Offender Programs by $2 million each, reduces the Census Bureau by the same amount.
McDermott (D-WA) - Page 7, Line 17 - Increases NOAA-Operations, Research and Facilities by $3 million (intended for fisheries), reduces the Census Bureau by the same amount.
Holt (D-NJ) - Page 13, Line 21 - The amendment intends to direct $37.45 million within NOAA-Operations , Research, and Facilities towards climate research.
Bonamici (D-OR) - Page 13, Line 21 - The amendment intends to direct $9 million within NOAA-Operations, Research, and Facilities towards studying ocean acidification.
Thompson (D-CA) - Page 17, Line 24 - Increases funding for grants to improve records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System by $19.5 million, reduces funding from various other accounts by the same amount.
Broun (R-GA) - Page 18, Line 11 - Reduces Department of Commerce-Inspector General by $596,000, increases the Spending Reduction Account by the same amount.
Moore (D-WI) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases the Executive Office of Immigration Review by $1 million, reduces DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Sinema (D-AZ) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases funding for colleges and university on campus sexual assault prevention by $1 million, reduced DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
KIng (R-IA) - Page 22, Line 6 - The amendment intends to direct $5 million within DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses towards investigating the actions of DHS regarding the discretionary release of criminal aliens.
Brownley (D-CA) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases funding for Veterans' Treatment Courts by $1 million, reduces DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
McKinley (R-WV) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases funding for the International Trade Commission by $1.5 million, reduces DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Lujan Grisham (D-NM) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases funding for Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction programs by $2 million, reduces DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Coffman (R-CO) - Page 22, Line 6 - Increases funding for Salaries and Expenses-U.S. Attorneys by $1 million, reduces DOJ-General Administration-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Lee (D-CA) - Page 22, Line 13 - Increases funding for Second Chance Act programs by $3 million, reduces DOJ-Information Sharing Technology and Bureau of Prisons-Salaries and Expenses by a combined $3 million.
Cohen (D-TN) - Page 22, Line 25 - Increases funding for DOJ-Administrative Review and Appeals by $2 million, reduces Bureau of Prisons-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Fleming (R-LA) - Page 23, Line 24 - Reduces DOJ-Legal Activities-Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities by $866,000, and transfers the same amount to the Spending Reduction Account.
Gosar (R-AZ) - Page 23, Line 24 - Increases funding for the Prescription Drug Monitoring program by $8 million, reduces DOJ-Legal Activities-Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities by the same amount.
Cohen (D-TN) - Page 32, Line 15 - Increases funding to address the backlog of sexual assault kits at law enforcement agencies by $5 million, reduces DEA-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Cohen (D-TN) - Page 32, Line 15 - Increases funding for the Legal Services Corporation by $15 million, reduces DEA-Salaries and Expenses by $18 million.
Polis (D-CO) - Page 32, Line 15 - Reduces DEA-Salaries and Expenses by $35 million, and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Kildee (D-MI) - Page 33, Line 4 - Increases ATF-Salaries and Expenses by $15 million (intended for Violent Crime Reduction Partnership Program), reduces NASA-Exploration by the same amount.
Gosar (R-AZ) - Page 33, Line 4 - Increases Veterans' Treatment Courts by $6 million, reduces ATF-Salaries and Expenses by the same amount.
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 8 - Page 34, Line 8 - Increases funding for Violence Against Women Act Programs by $500,000 (intended for State and Local law enforcement to locate and identify sex trafficking victims), reduces Federal Prison System-Salaries and Expenses by the the same amount.
Delaney (D-MD) - Page 34, Line 8 - Reduces Prison Bureau-Salaries and Expenses by $1 million, increases State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance by the same amount.
Connolly (D-VA) - Page 35, Line 21 - Increases funding for Veterans' Treatment Courts by $1 million, reduces Prison Bureau-Buildings and Facilities by the same amount.
Gallego (D-TX)- Page 38, Line 2 - Increases funding for the Office of Violence Against Women-Prevention and Prosecution (intended for domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking prevention in rural areas), reduces Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program by the same amount.
Gosar (R-AZ) - Page 42, Line 12 - Increases funding for Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants by $4.25 million, reduces Justice Programs-Research, Evaluation, and Statistics by the same amount.
Cicilline (D-RI) - Page 44, Line 6 - Increases funding for State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance by $8.5 million (intended for Project Safe Neighborhoods), reduces NASA-Construction by the same amount.
Kilmer (D-WA) - Page 44, Line 6 - Increases funding for the Economic High Tech and Cyber Crime Prevention Program by $2 million, reduces NASA-Aeronautics by the same amount.
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 18 - Page 44, Line 24 - Increases funding for gun locks and gun safety literature under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Memorial Assistance Grants from $3 million to $6 million.
Jeffries (D-NY) - Page 53, Line 22 - The amendment intends to set aside no less than $5 million in COPS grants for increasing and enhancing proactive crime control and prevention programs between law enforcement and young persons in the community.
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 19 - Page 54, Line 8 - After the word "rape" add "or incest".
Broun (R-GA) - Page 60, Line 22 - Reduces the Office of Science and Technology Policy by $1 million, and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Kaptur (D-OH) - Page 63, Line 8 - Increases funding for NASA-Space Technology by $7 million, reduces NASA-Space Operations by the same amount.
Smith (R-TX) - Page 69, Line 4 - Reduces and then adds back $15.35 million within the National Science Foundation Research and Related Activities Account. The sponsors’ intent is to redirect that sum from the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to the Physical Sciences Directorates.
Broun (R-GA) - Page 69, Line 22 - Reduces funding for NSF from various accounts by $67 million collectively, and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Austin Scott (R-GA) - Page 74, Line 13 - Eliminates all funding for the Legal Services Corporation ($350 million), and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Costa (D-CA) - Page 81, Line 22 - Intends to increase the dollar amount by $230 million.
Moran (D-VA) - Amendment No. 13 - Page 94, Line 14 - Strikes Sections 528 and 529 which prohibits funds from being used to transfer detainees to the U.S. or construct, acquire or modify any facility in the U.S. to house detainees.
Esty (D-CT) - Page 100, Line 7 - Strikes Sec. 539 which prohibits funds from being used to report an appropriately licensed purchaser for buying multiple rifles or shotguns.
End of Bill: Hastings (R-WA) - Prohibits funds under "Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery" from being used for grant guidelines or requirements to establish minimum riparian buffers.
Doyle (D-PA) - Would require the Commerce Secretary, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the U.S. Trade Commission to report to Congress on sanctions they can impose on countries or corporations that benefit from trade secrets or other information gathered by hacking into private computers.
Blackburn (R-TN) - Amendment No. 14 - 1% across the board spending cut (approximately $400 million). The rescission would exempt accounts related to the FBI.
Engel (D-NY) - Prohibits the use of funds to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles, for any executive fleet, or for an agency's fleet invetory, except in accordance with Presidential Memorandum-Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011.
Blackburn (R-TN) - Amendment No. 15 - Prohibits funds from being used for operation, renovation, or construction at Thomson Correctional Facility in Illinois
Bonamici (D-OR) - Prohibits funds from being used by DOJ to prevent a state from implementing its own state laws to authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of industrial hemp.
Walberg (R-MI) - Prohibits funds from being used by the FBI Investigative and Public Affairs Unit for any purpose other than the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, the Most Wanted Terrorists, and missing children programs.
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 21 - Prohibits funds from being used to award a contract to a company that has been convicted of, or is currently indicted/civilly charged for a range of crimes (listed in text of amendment), or has deliquent taxes of more than $3,000 within a three year period of the offered contract.
Rohrabacher (R-CA) - Amendment No. 25 - Prohibits funds from being used by DOJ to prevent states from implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 20 - Prohibits funds from being used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to solicit, offer, or award a contract in which the federal government is required to provide a minimum number of inmates to a private correctional institution or a private detention center
Holding (R-NC) - Prohibits funds from being used to transfer or temporarily assign employees to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for the purpose of screening clemency applications.
Flores (R-TX) - Prohibits the use of funds to be used to impose the Administration’s continued attempts to establish the National Ocean Policy and ocean zoning under Executive Order 13547 without explicit Congressional authorization.
Poe (R-TX) - Prohibits funds from being used to impose a potential fine for failing to complete the American Community Survey.
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 10 - Prohibits funds from being used under DOJ-Administrative Reviews and Appeals may be used in contravention of sections 509 and 510 of title 28, United States Code (regarding Executive Clemency Authority of the Attorney General to address prison overcrowding).
Massie (R-KY) - Prohibits funds from being used by DOJ or DEA in contravention of sec. 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 regarding industrial hemp research.
Huffman (D-CA) - Prohibits funds from being used to assess or collect the fee established by sec. 660.115 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations.
Southerland (R-FL) - Amendment No. 24 - Prohibits funds from being used to develop, approve, or implement a new limited access privilege program (catch shares) that are not already developed, approved, or implemented for any fishery under the jurisdiction of the South Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, New England, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.
Ellison (D-MN) - See text of amendment for details.
Perry (R-PA) - Prohibits funds from being used by NASA for its Advanced Food Technology Project.
Ellison (D-MN) - Prohibits funds from being used to award contracts to contractors who have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Broun (R-GA) - Prohibits funds from being used for a loan guarantee under the America Competes Act
Grayson (D-FL) - Prohibits funds from being used to negotiate agreements that includes a waiver of the Buy American Act
Salmon (R-AZ) - Prohibits funds from being used by the NSF to examine climate effects of tea quality and socioeconomic responses under award number 1313775-CNH
Grayson (D-FL) - Prohibits funds from being used to compel a journalist or reporter to testify about information or sources that they regard to be confidential
Gosar (R-AZ) - Prohibits funds from being used to create a national firearm registry, as well as additional studies and initiatives (listed in text of amendment)
Gosar (R-AZ) - Prohibits funds from being used to obtain the contents of wire or electronic communications over 180 days old
Perry (R-PA) - Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or carry out the National Climate Assessment, the IPCC report, the UN's Agenda 21, and the Social Cost of Carbon, etc.
Duffy (R-WI) -Prohibits funds from being used to relinquish the NTIA’s responsibility with respect to internet domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions
Garrett (R-NJ) - Prohibits funds from being used by the DOJ to pursue litigation using the "disparate impact" legal theory.
Luetkemeyer (R-MO) - Prohibits funds from being used to carryout Operation Choke Point
King (R-IA) -Prohibits funds from DOJ-Office of Justice Programs-State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance from being used in contravention of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Meadows (R-NC) - Prohibits funds from being used to enter into a trade agreement that establishes a limit on greenhouse gas emissions.
Hudson (R-NC) - Prohibits funds from being use for any program not authorized by law
Collins (R-GA) - Amendment No. 16 - Prohibits State Criminal Alien Assistance Program reimbursements for Sanctuary Cities
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