Amendments
Amendments to H.R. 3354 - Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018
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Amendments are debatable for 10 minutes each unless otherwise noted. Amendments offered En Bloc are debatable for 20 minutes. Additional amendments are expected to be made in order under a subsequent rule. Amendments to H.R. 3354 made in order under H.Res. 500: Amendments to Division B – (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies) Aderholt (R-AL) En Bloc No. 1 Curbelo (R-FL) – Amendment No. 1 - Appropriates $1.5 million for Oriental Fruit Fly research. The offset will be Departmental Administration under the Office of the Secretary account. Graves, Garret (R-LA) – Amendment No. 2 - Reduces the Department of Agriculture expense account by $400,000, and increases the Animal and Plant Inspection Services accounts by $400,000 to control the outbreaks of insect and plant diseases. Soto (D-FL) – Amendment No. 3 - Increases funding for Specialty Crop Pest Program by $1,000,000 for the Huanglongbing Multi-Agency Coordination efforts. Bera (D-CA) - Amendment No. 4 - Increases funding for Watershed Flood Prevention Operations by $2 million, with the increase intended to support the Emergency Watershed Protection Program. Mast (R-FL) – Amendment No. 5 - Increases Natural Resources Conservation Service by $5.6 million to FY17 appropriated level to support several programs for environmentally sustainable agriculture and toxic runoff mitigation. Mast (R-FL) – Amendment No. 6 - Increase National Institute of Food and Agriculture by $2 million to support the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s plan to expand postdoctoral research, prevention and monitoring of Harmful Algal Blooms with 16 of the additional 305 fellowships requested in FY18. Nolan (D-MN) – Amendment No. 7 - Increases the USDA’s Rural Broadband Program Loan Subsidy funding by $479,000, offset with a reduction to general Rural Development administrative expenses. Mast (R-FL) – Amendment No. 8 - Increases the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point program by $1.5 million to continue research on human impact of contaminated seafood. Young, David (R-IA), Blum (R-IA), Walz (D-MN), Bustos (D-IL), Stefanik (R-NY), Bacon (R-NE), Peterson (D-MN) – Amendment No. 9 - Strikes language that would prevent the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using Commodity Credit Corporation funds to purchase, produce, or defray the costs of alternative fuels under its memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense. Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 13 - Prohibits use of funds by the National Park Service in contravention of section 320101 of title 54, United States Code which provides that it is a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States, especially as it relates to National Heritage Areas (NHAs). Moore, Gwen (D-WI) – Amendment No. 19 - Prohibits funds from being provided to entities that contravene 42 usc 1758 (b) (10) or 7 cfr 245.8, barring recipients of federal aid from having policies that overtly identify or stigmatize certain potential recipients of school meal subsidies. Soto (D-FL) – Amendment No. 20 - Increases the funding of the Grassroots Source Water Protection Program by $500,000.
Cicilline (D-RI), Beyer (D-VA), Langevin (D-RI), Bonamici (D-OR), Keating (D-MA), Lieu (D-CA), Schneider (D-IL) – Amendment No. 10 - Strikes language that restricts funding for Executive Order 13547, National Ocean Policy.
Rooney, Francis (R-FL) – Amendment No. 11 - Prohibits the use of funds to be used to implement or enforce Executive Order 13502.
Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 12 - Prevents funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any project labor agreement.
Davis, Rodney (R-IL) – Amendment No. 14 - Prohibits the use of funds provided by the Act to be used to revoke exceptions made pursuant to the rule entitled "Exceptions to Geographic Areas for Official Agencies Under the USGSA" on a date before April 14, 2017.
King, Steve (R-IA), Perry (R-PA), Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 15 - Prohibits funds in Division B, Agriculture Appropriations, from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Davis-Bacon Act
Hartzler (R-MO) – Amendment No. 16 - Prohibits USDA from using funds to implement the Paid Lunch Equity provision in the National School Lunch Act.
Carter, Buddy (R-GA) – Amendment No. 17 - Prohibits funds from being used by the Food and Drug Administration to finalize, implement, or enforce the draft standard memorandum of understanding made available for public comment on February 19, 2015, entitled “Draft Memorandum of Understanding Addressing Certain Distributions of Compounded Human Drug Products Between the State of [Insert State] and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.”.
King, Steve (R-IA) – Amendment No. 18 - Ensures that no funds may be used on new hires who have not been verified through the E-Verify program, except for an employee compensated under a local compensation plan established under section 408 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
Amendments to Division H- (THUD) Diaz-Balart (R-FL) En Bloc No. 2 DeSaulnier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 23 - Adds funding for the University Transportation Center program. Hanabusa (D-HI), Gabbard (D-HI), Garamendi (D-CA), Dunn (R-FL), LoBiondo (R-NJ), Young, Don (R-AK), Hunter (R-CA), Gallagher (R-WI) – Amendment No. 24 - Increases funding for Assistance to Small Shipyards by $7 million. Torres (D-CA) – Amendment No. 27 - Provides the authorized funding level for Section 1441 for the 2015 FAST Act, the Regional Infrastructure Accelerator (RIA) Demonstration program. Lowey (D-NY) – Amendment No. 30 - Provides $1 million to support medical fitness standards for critical safety personnel on interstate railways. Nolan (D-MN) – Amendment No. 31 - Reduces, and then restores funding for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Grants by $500,000,000. Torres (D-CA) – Amendment No. 34 - Provides the authorized funding level for MAP-21 Section’s 20005(b) & FAST Act’s Section 3016 FAST Act, the Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning. Nolan (D-MN) – Amendment No. 35 - Reduces, and then restores funding for the Capital Investment Grant program, which is the Federal Transit Agency’s primary grant program for funding major transit capital investments, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. Velázquez (D-NY), Serrano (D-NY), Espaillat (D-NY), Meeks (D-NY), Maloney, Carolyn (D-NY), Meng (D-NY) – Amendment No. 40 - Increases the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public Housing Capital Fund by $2,000,000. Tenney (R-NY), LoBiondo (R-NJ) – Amendment No. 41 - Increases funding to the Community Development Block Grants program by $10 million and reduces the public housing operating fund allocation by $10 million. Nadler (D-NY) – Amendment No. 42 - Increases funding for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS by $19 million . The increase is offset by reducing the HUD Information Technology fund by the same amount. Knight (R-CA) – Amendment No. 43 - Increases the Community Development Fund by $100,000,000 DeSaulnier (D-CA) - Amendment No. 45 - Adds funds for Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing program. Soto (D-FL) – Amendment No. 47 - Increases funding for Housing for the Elderly by $2.5 million. Nolan (D-MN) – Amendment No. 60 - Restores the FAA’s Small Community Air Service Development Program at $10,000,000, which provides grant subsidies for airports in smaller rural communities looking to create or expand new air service in places where access to the national air transportation system is limited.
Lipinski (D-IL) – Amendment No. 21 - Decreases the Office of the Secretary of Transportation Salaries and Expenses account by $9,000,000 and increases the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Salaries and Expenses account by the same amount for the purpose of expanding NHTSA's connected and automated vehicles oversight and regulatory capabilities.
Mitchell (R-MI) – Amendment No. 22 - Reduces by 10% general administrative and departmental salary and expense accounts in Division H, and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
McClintock (R-CA) – Amendment No. 25 - Reduces payments to the Essential Air Service program by $150 million and transfers the same amount to the spending reduction account.
Kildee (D-MI) – Amendment No. 26 - Increases funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program by $100 million, reduces FAA Operations/Air Traffic Control by the same amount.
Woodall (R-GA) – Amendment No. 28 - Ensures greater flexibility for state departments of transportation to make targeted recissions.
Napolitano (D-CA), Norton (D-DC), Nadler (D-NY), Lowenthal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 29 - Strikes Section 134, which prohibits states from setting meal break, rest break, and wage standards for truck drivers.
Budd (R-NC), Ellison (D-MN), Williams (R-TX), Mitchell (R-MI) – Amendment No. 32 - Reduces the Rail State of Good Repair program by $474 million, and increases FTA New Starts by $1; the amendment also transfers $400 million from FTA’s Joint Commuter/Passenger Rail Projects into the New Starts program.
Brooks (R-AL) – Amendment No. 33 - Strikes the paragraph titled “National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation” which eliminates the Amtrak long-distance and state-supported routes.
Soto (D-FL) – Amendment No. 36 - Increases funding for the Small Starts program by $48 million.
Carbajal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 37 - Provides $1,000,000 to PHMSA for the finalization of an automatic valve shut-off safety rule.
Rosen (D-NV) – Amendment No. 38 - Increases funding for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) by $35 million, offset by reducing various other accounts
Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 39 - Decreases the funding for the Public and Indian Housing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program by $177,362,500, and transfers the same amount to the spending reduction account.
Courtney (D-CT), Larson, John (D-CT) – Amendment No. 44 - Provides funding in the Community Development Block Grant program to examine the application of grant funds to mitigating and remediating the effects of pyrrhotite-related residential damage.
Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 46 - Reduces funding for the Project-Based Rental Assistance Housing Program by $266,000,000, and transfers the same amount to the spending reduction account.
Stivers (D-OH) – Amendment No. 48 - Increases funding for Administrative Enforcement Initiative by reducing funding from Private Enforcement Initiative.
Thompson, Glenn (R-PA), Kelly (R-PA) – Amendment No. 49 - Prohibits funds to be used for establishing or collecting tolls on I-80 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Rooney, Francis (R-FL), Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 50 - Prohibits the use of funds to be used to implement or enforce Executive Order 13502.
King, Steve (R-IA), Perry (R-PA), Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 51 - Prohibits funds in Division H, THUD Appropriations, from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Davis-Bacon Act
Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 52 - Provides that the Secretary may make grants to State and local authorities for the purpose of undertaking capital projects.
Herrera-Beutler (R-WA) – Amendment No. 53 - States no Funds can be used to establish or collect tolls on Interstate 5 or Interstate 205 in the state of Washington or Oregon.
Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 54 - Reduces the funding level for the Department of Housing and Urban Development by two percent.
Barr (R-KY) – Amendment No. 55 - Prohibits funding for HUD’s rule on “On-Site Completion of Construction of Manufactured Homes,” their “Interpretative Bulletin for Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards Foundation requirements in Freezing Temperature Areas Under CFR 3285.312(b),” and any implementation of the June 2014 memorandum titled “Construction of On-Site Installation of Add-Ons, such as an Attached Garage.”
Smith, Jason (R-MO) – Amendment No. 56 - Prohibits funds from being used for a State, or local government entity or official if that entity prohibits, or in any way restricts, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.
Perry (R-PA), LaMalfa (R-CA), Meadows (R-NC) – Amendment No. 57 - Prohibits the use of funds for the NHTSA and FMCSA to finalize the notice of proposed rulemaking regarding speed limiting devices (81 Fed. Reg. 61941).
Babin (R-TX), Smucker (R-PA), LaMalfa (R-CA), Peterson (R-MN), Gosar (R-AZ), Smith, Jason (R-MO) – Amendment No. 58 - Prohibits funds from being used to implement or enforce the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate.
King, Steve (R-IA) – Amendment No. 59 - Ensures that no funds may be used on new hires who have not been verified through the E-Verify program.
Amendments to Division E (Homeland) Carter (R-TX) En Bloc No. 3 Keating (D-MA) – Amendment No. 61 – Provides funds for the FEMA National Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund to support regional-level NFIP Community Rating System coordinators. Swalwell (D-CA), Fitzpatrick (R-PA) – Amendment No. 62 – Increases by $10 million the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Research and Development account for the purpose of TSA conducting evaluations and pilot testing of technology to detect intrusions on airport perimeters, offset by a $10 million reduction in the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Secretary and Executive Management account. Lujan Grisham (D-NM) – Amendment No. 64 – Increases DHS Urban Areas Security Initiative by $5 million and reduces DHS Office of the Secretary and Executive Management Operations and Support by the same amount. Higgins (D-NY) – Amendment No. 65 – Increases funding to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Federal Assistance account by $1 million to address radiological and nuclear detection training and equipment for state and local law enforcement and first responders. Delaney (D-MD), Donovan (R-NY) – Amendment No. 67 – Funds the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Chemical Security Analysis Center, and National Urban Security Technology Laboratory and is offset by a reduction in Management Directorate, Operations and Support account. Bilirakis (R-FL) – Amendment No. 68 – Adds $5 million for “International Investigations” (sub account International Operations and Visa Security Program) for the purpose of Visa Security Program. It is intended to provide ICE additional funds to establish 2 Visa Security Posts in high risk areas. Pascrell (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 69 – Provides $1 million for the State Fire Training Assistance Grant Program, and reduce funds for the Department of Homeland Security Management Directorate, Operations and Support by $1 million. Kildee (D-MI) – Amendment No. 72 – Adds $20 million to the SAFER Grant program ("Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response Grants"). Correa (D-CA) – Amendment No. 73 – Reduces funding for ICE--Operations and Support (Enforcement and Removal Operations) by $10,000,000 and increases funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protections (Canine Teams for drug interdiction at the Border) by the same amount. Latta (R-OH) – Amendment No. 79 – Allows the Department of Homeland Security's National Programs and Protection Directorate to use funds already allocated to the Department by the underlying bill to partner with rental car agencies for the purpose of strengthening background checks to guard against potential terrorists. Torres (D-CA), Grijalva (D-AZ), Barragán (D-CA) – Amendment No. 82 – Prevents funds from being used in contravention of Section of 235B of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent an individual who presents themselves at a port of entry to the United States from taking such actions as may be necessary for purposes of applying for asylum. Maloney, Sean (R-NY) – Amendment No. 86 – Prohibits funds from being used for the establishments of anchorages on the Hudson River between Yonkers, New York and Kingston, New York. Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 89 – Prohibits the use of funds to limit the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance the use of Federal air marshals on inbound international flights considered to be high risk by the Department of Homeland Security.
Lujan Grisham (D-NM) – Amendment No. 63 – Prioritizes funding within the DHS Office of the Secretary to complete a study on the treatment of detainees and the conditions of private detention centers.
Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 66 – Strikes the $535 million increase for ICE enforcement and adds $30 million to ICE’s Office of the Inspector General and $10 million to the Department’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Fitzpatrick (R-PA) – Amendment No. 70 – Increases funding to the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, to meet their budgetary request, so they may fully execute their mission of rectifying fraud, waste, and abuse.
Castro (D-TX), Lee, Barbara (D-CA) – Amendment No. 71 – Increases U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Operations and Support by $5 million and reduces that account by the same amount.
Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Garamendi (D-CA) – Amendment No. 74 – Reduces funding for ICE--Operations and Support by $849,500,000 and increases funding for Coast Guard--Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements by the same amount.
Castro (D-TX), Lee, Barbara (D-CA) – Amendment No. 75 – Increases U.S. ICE--Operations and Support by $10 million and reduces that account by the same amount.
Correa (D-CA) – Amendment No. 76 – Reduces funding for ICE--Operations and Support by $100,000,000 and increases funding for Coast Guard--Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements by the same amount.
Hunter (R-CA) – Amendment No. 77 – Reduces Coast Guard—Operating Expenses by $5 million, and increases Coast Guard--Research, Development, Test and Evaluation by the same amount.
King, Steve (IA), Perry (PA), Gaetz (FL) – Amendment No. 80 – Prohibits funds in all remaining divisions of the bill from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Davis-Bacon Act
Castro (D-TX), Lee, Barbara (D-CA), Soto (D-FL), Meng (D-NY) – Amendment No. 81 – Prohibits funds from being used to enter into contracts with privatized immigration detention facilities.
Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 83 – Prevents funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any project labor agreement.
Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 84 – Prohibits funds from being used to expand or build new detention facilities.
Zeldin (R-NY) – Amendment No. 85 – Lifts the ban on striped bass fishing in the Block Island Transit Zone between Montauk, NY and Block Island, RI.
King, Steve (R-IA) – Amendment No. 88 – Prohibits funds from being used in all remaining sections of the bill, except for State and Foreign Operations Appropriations, on new hires who have not been verified through the E-Verify program.
Amendments to Division G (Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs) Rogers (R-KY) En Bloc 4 Lowey (D-NY), Crowley (D-NY), Meng (D-NY) – Amendment No. 90 - States a decrease/increase of funding for Diplomatic Policy and Support from the Diplomatic and Consular Programs account regarding deportation status of Mr. Jakiw Palij. Mitchell (R-MI) – Amendment No. 93 - Prohibits the use of funds to attend a Canadian water resources conference in opposition to the construction of a deep geological repository for nuclear waste on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron. Valadao (R-CA), Schiff (D-CA), Royce (R-CA), Pallone (D-NJ), Speier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 100 - Ensures continued funding for de-mining projects in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Lynch (D-MA) – Amendment No. 102 - Increases funding for the Department of the Treasury International Affairs Technical Assistance by $4,545,000. Foster (D-IL) – Amendment No. 103 - Reduces the NADR account by $10,000,000 and increases the account by the same amount, to be used for the Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications project in order to promote scientific diplomacy and peace in the Middle East. Budd (R-NC) – Amendment No. 104 - Prevents funds from being used to honor the families of those engaged or connected to terrorist activity. Torres (D-CA) – Amendment No. 105 - Provides an exemption from the withholding requirements that are set forth in Sections 7045 (a)(3) of Division G, which apply to all assistance for each of the central governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Trott (R-MI) – Amendment No. 108 - Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of International Religious Freedom. Schneider (D-IL), Rosen (D-NV) – Amendment No. 109 - Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Lieu (D-CA) – Amendment No. 111 - Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of Global Criminal Justice. Meeks (D-NY), Castro (D-TX) – Amendment No. 117 - Ensures none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to reduce the number of fellows in the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, the Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program, or the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program below current levels.
Rothfus (R-PA) – Amendment No. 91 - Reduces Education and Cultural Exchange Programs-Fulbright Program by $30 million and increases International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement by the same amount.
Scott, Austin (R-GA) – Amendment No. 92 – Reduces International Organization by $10 million and increases Western Hemisphere Regional Cooperation by the same amount.
Buck (R-CO) – Amendment No. 94 - Defunds the United States Institute of Peace and transfers funds to the spending reduction account.
Engel (D-NY), Young, Don (R-AK), Green, Gene (D-TX) – Amendment No. 95 - Increases funding for USAID’s global health programs by $209 million in order to increase funding for bilateral tuberculosis (TB) assistance to $450 million.
Frankel (D-FL) – Amendment No. 96 - Increases funding for the Economic Support Fund by $8.5 million.
Hastings, Alcee (D-FL) – Amendment No. 97 - Increases Economic Assistance by $12 million and reduces Foreign Military Financing Program by $81.6 million.
Hastings, Alcee (D-FL) – Amendment No. 98 - Increases Economic Assistance by $20 million and reduces Foreign Military Financing Program by $72.6 million.
Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 99 - Reduces Economic Assistance by $12 million and transfer the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.
Paulsen (R-MN) [on behalf of Donovan (R-NY)] – Amendment No. 101 - Increases funding for the US African Development Foundation by $15 million.
Trott (R-MI) – Amendment No. 106 - Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Trott (R-MI) – Amendment No. 107 - Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia.
Yoho (R-FL) [on behalf of Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)] – Amendment No. 110 - Prohibits funds from being made available in support of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
King, Steve (R-IA), Perry (R-PA), Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 112 - Ensures that no funds are used to implement, administer, or enforce the Davis-Bacon Act.
Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 113 - Prevents funds from being given to a list of Palestinian schools named after terrorists.
Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 114 - Prevents funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any project labor agreement.
DeSantis (R-FL) – Amendment No. 115 - None of the funds made available by this Act may be awarded to Islamic Relief Worldwide.
Brat (R-VA) – Amendment No. 116 - Eliminates the Office of Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources at the U.S. Department of State.
King, Steve (R-IA) – Amendment No. 118 - Ensures that no funds may be used on new hires who have not been verified through the E-Verify program, except for an employee compensated under a local compensation plan established under section 408 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
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