American Relief Act, 2025
This act provides continuing FY2025 appropriations for federal agencies and supplemental appropriations for disaster relief. It also extends various expiring programs and authorities, including several public health and agriculture programs.
DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025
This division provides continuing FY2025 appropriations to federal agencies through the earlier of March 14, 2025, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations act. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2025 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires on December 20, 2024.
The CR funds most programs and activities at the FY2024 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs.
(Sec. 101) This section provides FY2025 appropriations to federal agencies for continuing projects or activities at the levels and under the conditions included in specified FY2024 appropriations acts. The section also extends several immigration-related programs and specifies several exceptions.
The section provides additional funding to the District of Columbia for costs associated with emergency planning and security activities related to the January 2025 Presidential Inauguration.
It also amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 to add the following provisions:
(Sec. 153) This section permits the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to apportion specified funds at the rate necessary to maintain the acquisition schedule for Geostationary Earth Orbit.
(Sec. 154) This section permits the Department of Justice to apportion Justice Information Technology funding at the rate necessary to carry out proactive vulnerability detection and penetration testing activities.
(Sec. 155) This section provides additional emergency funding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems.
(Sec. 156) This section permits the Navy to apportion specified funds at the rate necessary for activities related to the procurement of a Columbia Class Submarine.
(Sec. 157) This section provides additional emergency funding to the Navy for (1) the Virginia Class Submarine program, and (2) for workforce wage and non-executive salary improvements for other nuclear-powered vessel programs. Specifically, the funds may be used to incrementally fund contract obligations for the improvement of workforce wages and non-executive level salaries on new or existing contracts pertaining to the Virginia Class Submarine program or to other nuclear-powered vessel programs.
(Sec. 158) This section provides additional emergency funding to DOD for conducting risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems.
(Sec. 159) This section allows the Department of Energy (DOE) to apportion specified funds for Atomic Energy Defense Activities at the rate necessary to sustain specialized security activities. It also requires DOE and the Office of Management and Budget to notify Congress no later than three days after each use of this authority.
(Sec. 160) This section provides additional emergency funding to DOE for conducting risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems.
(Sec. 161) This section extends and increases the authorization of appropriations for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
(Sec. 162) This section provides additional emergency funding to the Department of the Treasury for conducting risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems.
(Sec. 163) This section extends the exemption from the Antideficiency Act for the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund.
(Sec. 164) This section extends limits on pay increases for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees.
(Sec. 165) This section permits the Department of Education to apportion Student Aid Administration funds at the rate necessary ensure the continuation of student loan servicing activities and the student aid application and eligibility determination processes.
(Sec. 166) This section allows certain unobligated military construction funds that were provided to the Army to be used for an access road project at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Sec. 167) This section provides that specified rescissions of funds from various Veteran Health Administration accounts do not apply during the period covered by the CR.
(Sec. 168) This section extends the term of a member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors.
(Sec. 169) This section permits the Federal Aviation Administration to apportion funds at the rate necessary to fund mandatory pay increases and other inflationary adjustments, to maintain and improve air traffic services, to hire and train air traffic controllers, and to continue aviation safety oversight, while avoiding service reductions.
DIVISION B--DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025
This division provides supplemental appropriations to various federal agencies for disaster relief and assistance to respond to hurricanes, wildfires, severe storms and flooding, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.
TITLE I
This title provides appropriations to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for
(Sec. 2101) This section modifies the requirements for the Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund to allow the fund to be used for additional purposes and expand the activity or project limitations that USDA is permitted to waive.
For example, this section
(Sec. 2102) This section requires USDA to make one-time economic assistance payments to producers of certain commodities if the expected gross return per acre for the commodity is less than the expected cost of production per acre for that eligible commodity. The section also specifies requirements for determining the (1) the expected gross return per acre, (2) the expected cost of production per acre, and (3) the amount of the economic assistance payment for a producer.
TITLE II
This title provides appropriations for the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Within Commerce, the title provides appropriations to the Economic Development Administration for Economic Development Assistance Programs.
The title also provides appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for
The title provides appropriations to DOJ for (1) the U.S. Marshals Service, and (2) the Federal Prison System.
The title provides appropriations to NASA for Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration.
TITLE III
This title provides appropriations to the Department of Defense for
TITLE IV
This title provides appropriations for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, and the Department of Energy (DOE).
The title provides appropriations to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for
The title provides appropriations to the Bureau of Reclamation for Water and Related Resources.
Within DOE, the title provides appropriations for (1) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and (2) the National Nuclear Security Administration, including for Weapons Activities and Defense Environmental Cleanup.
TITLE V
This title provides appropriations to the U.S. Supreme Court for protection of the residences of the Supreme Court Justices.
It also provides appropriations to the Small Business Administration for the Disaster Loans Program Account.
TITLE VI
This title provides appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security for
TITLE VII
This title provides appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Forest Service.
The title provides appropriation to Interior for
The title provides appropriations to the EPA for (1) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program, and (2) State and Tribal Assistance Grants.
The title provides appropriations to the Forest Service for
(Sec. 2701) This section allows Interior and the Forest Service to recruit and directly appoint highly qualified individuals into the competitive service to address certain critical hiring needs for the planning and execution of the projects and activities funded in this title without regard to specified hiring procedures and requirements. This section also specifies requirements and restrictions for using this authority.
(Sec. 2702) This section requires agencies that receive funds provided by this title to submit detailed operating plans to Congress prior to obligating the funds.
TITLE VIII
This title provides appropriations to the Administration for Children and Families for Payments to States for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
(Sec. 2801) This section requires agencies that receive funds provided by this title to submit detailed operating plans to Congress prior to obligating the funds.
TITLE IX
This title provides appropriations to the Government Accountability Office for audits and investigations related to Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, and other disasters.
TITLE X
This title provides appropriations for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The title provides appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for military construction for
The title also provides appropriations to the Navy and Marine Corps for (1) Family Housing Construction, and (2) Family Housing Operation and Maintenance.
Within the VA, the title provides appropriations to the Veteran Health Administration for
The title also provides appropriations to the VA for (1) the National Cemetery Administration; and (2) Departmental Administration, including construction for major and minor projects.
TITLE XI
This title provides appropriations to the Department of State for the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico.
TITLE XII
This title provides appropriations to the Federal Highway Administration for the Emergency Relief Program.
It also provides appropriations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Community Development Fund.
TITLE XIII
(Sec. 21301) This section specifies that the funds provided by this division are in addition to funds otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year involved.
(Sec. 21302) This section prohibits funds provided by this division from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless this division expressly provides otherwise.
(Sec. 21303) Unless otherwise specified by this division, the funds provided by this division are subject to the authorities and conditions that apply to the applicable appropriations accounts for FY2025.
(Sec. 21304) This section specifies that funds designated as emergency spending by Divisions A or B are only available if the President subsequently designates all of the funds as emergency spending and transmits the designations to Congress.
(Sec. 21305) This section specifies that funds that are designated by Divisions A or B as emergency spending and are transferred pursuant to authorities provided by this division shall retain the emergency designations.
(Sec. 21306) This section exempts the budgetary effects of Division C and each subsequent division of this act from (1) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO Act), (2) the Senate PAYGO rule, and (3) certain budget scorekeeping rules.
DIVISION C--HEALTH
Health Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2025
TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS
(Sec. 3101) This section extends through March 31, 2025, funding for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, the Community Health Center Fund, and the National Health Service Corps. The program supports education and training of medical students in primary care residency programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. The fund supports (1) grants for outpatient health care facilities that serve medically underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps, which provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to health care providers who agree to work in areas with health care provider shortages.
(Sec. 3102) This section extends funding through March 31, 2025, for the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.
(Sec. 3103) This section extends through March 31, 2025, the authority that allows states and tribes to request the temporary reassignment of state and local health department personnel who are funded through certain federal programs to immediately address a public health emergency.
It also extends through March 31, 2025, provisions that prohibit the disclosure of information about Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs that could compromise national security (e.g., information regarding biomedical threats).
The section extends through March 31, 2025, provisions that authorize HHS to engage with developers of medical countermeasures, and that provide for related antitrust exemptions, for the purpose of furthering product development.
Additionally, the section extends through March 31, 2025, the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters, and the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters.
It also extends through March 31, 2025, the authority of HHS to directly appoint candidates to positions within the National Disaster Medical System if HHS determines the number of personnel in the system is insufficient to address a public health emergency or potential public health emergency. The National Disaster Medical System is a partnership between HHS, the Department of Defense, and other federal departments that responds to public health and other emergencies, including by deploying medical response teams.
TITLE II--MEDICARE
(Sec. 3201) This section extends through March 31, 2025, certain increased payment adjustments for low-volume hospitals under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system.
(Sec. 3202) This section extends through March 31, 2025, the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program, which provides additional payments to certain small rural hospitals that have a high proportion of Medicare patients.
(Sec. 3203) This section extends through March 31, 2025, certain increased payment adjustments for ground ambulance services in rural and other areas under Medicare.
(Sec. 3204) This section extends through March 31, 2025, funding for certain Medicare quality-measurement activities.
(Sec. 3205) This section extends through March 31, 2025, funding for state health insurance programs, area agencies on aging, aging and disability resource centers, and technical assistance related to outreach and enrollment with respect to Medicare and other programs.
(Sec. 3206) This section extends through March 31, 2025, certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index with respect to payments for physician services under Medicare.
(Sec. 3207) This section extends through March 31, 2025, certain telehealth flexibilities under Medicare.
Specifically, the section (1) removes geographic restrictions on originating sites (i.e., the location of the beneficiary); (2) allows the home of the beneficiary to serve as the originating site for all services; (3) allows audiologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to furnish telehealth services; (4) allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner); (5) delays implementation of certain in-person evaluation requirements for mental health telehealth services; (6) expands coverage to include audio-only services for evaluation and management and behavioral health services; and (7) allows, for purposes of hospice care recertification under Medicare, physicians and nurse practitioners to fulfill the requirement of a face-to-face encounter with the hospice patient via telehealth.
(Sec. 3208) This section extends through March 31, 2025, the Acute Hospital Care at Home Program under Medicare. (The program allows hospitals to treat certain patients from emergency departments or inpatient hospital beds at home.)
(Sec. 3209) This section extends through March 31, 2025, coverage under the Medicare prescription drug benefit of prescription oral antiviral drugs that were authorized in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
(Sec. 3210) This section reduces funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund beginning in FY2026.
TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES
(Sec. 3301) This section extends through March 31, 2025, funding for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. This program supports projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activities.
(Sec. 3302) This section extends through March 31, 2025, funding for the Personal Responsibility Education Program. This program provides grants to states to educate young people about abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth.
(Sec. 3303) This section extends through March 31, 2025, the Family-to-Family Health Information Centers Program, which is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The program awards grants to family-run organizations to support the provision of information and peer support to families of children with special health care needs.
DIVISION D--EXTENSION OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
(Sec. 4101) This section extends programs authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the 2018 farm bill) until the later of (1) September 30, 2025; (2) the date specified in the provision of the act; or (3) the date in effect for programs authorized by the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024.
This section extends and amends Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs, including by
This section extends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust through FY2025 to allow for eligible commodities to remain in the trust until September 30, 2025. The program makes funds available to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries.
This section extends through FY2025 a provision that prohibits USDA from declaring the Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma, to be excess or surplus federal property, or otherwise conveying or transferring the property.
This section extends through the 2025 crop year the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP) for Bioenergy Producers, which allows the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase surplus sugar from processors for resale to ethanol producers for ethanol fuel. Further, this section extends through September 1, 2025, requirements for USDA to provide notice to eligible entities and bioenergy producers of the quantity of eligible commodities that must be made available for purchase and sale for the crop year.
Further, this section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain commodities-related mandatory funding that was provided for
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain conservation-related mandatory funding for FY2024 and FY2025 that was provided for
This section also specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply with respect to certain limitations on payments under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). TEFAP provides food commodities (and cash support for storage and distribution costs) through states to local emergency feeding organizations (e.g., food banks).
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for the Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program, which provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain research-related mandatory funding that was provided for
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain energy-related mandatory funding that was provided for
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain horticulture-related mandatory funding that was provided for
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for
This section also extends various reporting requirements authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
Finally, this section must be applied and administered as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2024.
DIVISION E--OTHER MATTERS
(Sec. 5101) This section extends until March 14, 2025, the availability of funds for customer education initiatives and administrative expenses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach and the Whistleblower Program. This section is retroactively effective beginning September 30, 2024.
(Sec. 5102) This section extends until March 14, 2025, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity.
(Sec. 5103) This section extends until March 14, 2025, the special assessment on nonindigent persons or entities convicted of certain offenses involving sexual abuse or human trafficking. The assessment funds programs for human-trafficking survivors.
(Sec. 5104) This section extends the authority for DHS’s National Cybersecurity Protection System and related reporting requirements until March 14, 2025.
(Sec. 5105) This section extends until March 31, 2025, the temporary scheduling order issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration to place fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
[118th Congress Public Law 158]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
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AMERICAN RELIEF ACT, 2025
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Public Law 118-158
118th Congress
An Act
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 21,
2024 - [H.R. 10545]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: American Relief
Act, 2025.>>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Relief Act, 2025''.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
DIVISION B--DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
DIVISION C--HEALTH
Sec. 3001. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS
Sec. 3101. Extension for community health centers, National Health
Service Corps, and teaching health centers that operate GME
programs.
Sec. 3102. Extension of special diabetes programs.
Sec. 3103. National health security extensions.
TITLE II--MEDICARE
Sec. 3201. Extension of increased inpatient hospital payment adjustment
for certain low-volume hospitals.
Sec. 3202. Extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program.
Sec. 3203. Extension of add-on payments for ambulance services.
Sec. 3204. Extension of funding for quality measure endorsement, input,
and selection.
Sec. 3205. Extension of funding outreach and assistance for low-income
programs.
Sec. 3206. Extension of the work geographic index floor.
Sec. 3207. Extension of certain telehealth flexibilities.
Sec. 3208. Extending acute hospital care at home waiver authorities.
Sec. 3209. Extension of temporary inclusion of authorized oral antiviral
drugs as covered part D drugs.
Sec. 3210. Medicare improvement fund.
TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES
Sec. 3301. Sexual risk avoidance education extension.
Sec. 3302. Personal responsibility education extension.
Sec. 3303. Extension of funding for family-to-family health information
centers.
TITLE IV--MEDICAID
Sec. 3401. Eliminating certain disproportionate share hospital payment
cuts.
DIVISION D--EXTENSION OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
Sec. 4101. Extension of agricultural programs.
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DIVISION E--OTHER MATTERS
Sec. 5101. Commodity futures trading commission whistleblower program.
Sec. 5102. Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned
aircraft.
Sec. 5103. Additional special assessment.
Sec. 5104. National cybersecurity protection system authorization.
Sec. 5105. Extension of temporary order for fentanyl-related substances.
SEC. 3. <<NOTE: 1 USC 1 note.>> REFERENCES.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to ``this
Act'' contained in any division of this Act shall be treated as
referring only to the provisions of that division.
DIVISION A <<NOTE: Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025.>> --
FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
Sec. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (division A of
Public Law 118-83) is amended--
(1) by striking the date specified in section
106(3) <<NOTE: Ante, p. 1526.>> and inserting ``March 14,
2025'';
(2) in section 126 <<NOTE: Ante, p. 1529.>> to read as
follows:
``Sec. 126. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are provided for
`District of Columbia--Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and
Security Costs in the District of Columbia' at a rate for operations of
$90,000,000, of which not less than $50,000,000 shall be for costs
associated with the Presidential Inauguration to be held in January
2025: Provided, That such amounts may be apportioned up to the rate for
operations necessary to maintain emergency planning and security
activities.''; and
(3) by adding after section 152 the following new sections:
``Sec. 153. Amounts made available by section 101 for `Department
of Commerce--National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--
Procurement, Acquisition and Construction' may be apportioned up to the
rate for operations necessary to maintain the acquisition schedule for
Geostationary Earth Orbit in an amount not to exceed $625,000,000.
``Sec. 154. Amounts made available by section 101 for `Department
of Justice--Justice Operations, Management and Accountability--Justice
Information Sharing Technology' may be apportioned up to the rate for
operations necessary to carry out proactive vulnerability detection and
penetration testing activities.
``Sec. 155. In addition to amounts otherwise provided by section
101, there is appropriated to the Department of Justice for `Federal
Bureau of Investigation--Salaries and Expenses', $16,668,000, for an
additional amount for fiscal year 2025, to remain available until
September 30, 2026, to conduct risk reduction and modification of
National Security Systems: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
``Sec. 156. (a) Amounts made available by section 101 to the
Department of Defense for `Procurement--Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy', may be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary for
`Columbia Class Submarine (AP)' in an amount not to exceed
$5,996,130,000.
``(b) Amounts made available by section 101 to the Department of
Defense for `Procurement--Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy' may be
apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary for `Columbia Class
Submarine' in an amount not to exceed $2,922,300,000.
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``Sec. 157. (a) In addition to amounts otherwise provided by section
101, there is appropriated to the Department of Defense for
`Procurement--Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy', $5,691,000,000, for an
additional amount for fiscal year 2025, to remain available until
September 30, 2029, for the Virginia Class Submarine program and for
workforce wage and non-executive salary improvements for other nuclear-
powered vessel programs: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
``(b) Amounts appropriated by subsection (a) may be used to
incrementally fund contract obligations for the improvement of workforce
wages and non-executive level salaries on new or existing contracts
pertaining to the Virginia Class Submarine program or to other nuclear-
powered vessel programs.
``Sec. 158. In addition to amounts otherwise provided by section
101, there is appropriated to the Department of Defense for `Operation
and Maintenance--Defense-Wide', $913,440,000, for an additional amount
for fiscal year 2025, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to
conduct risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems:
Provided, That the amount provided by this section may be transferred to
accounts under the headings `Operation and Maintenance', `Procurement',
and `Research, Development, Test and Evaluation': Provided further, That
funds transferred pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be merged with
and available for the same purpose and for the same time period as the
appropriations to which the funds are transferred: Provided further,
That any transfer authority provided herein is in addition to any other
transfer authority provided by law: Provided further, That such amount
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
``Sec. 159. (a) Amounts made available by section 101 for
`Department of Energy--Atomic Energy Defense Activities--Environmental
and Other Defense Activities--Other Defense Activities' may be
apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to sustain
specialized security activities.
``(b) <<NOTE: Notification. Deadline.>> The Director of the Office
of Management and Budget and the Secretary of Energy shall notify the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate not later than 3 days after each use of the authority provided in
subsection (a).
``Sec. 160. In addition to amounts otherwise provided by section
101, there is appropriated to the Department of Energy for `Atomic
Energy Defense Activities--Environmental and Other Defense Activities--
Other Defense Activities', $1,750,000, for an additional amount for
fiscal year 2025, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to
conduct risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
``Sec. 161. <<NOTE: Applicability.>> During the period covered by
this Act, section 10609(a) of the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water
Projects Act (subtitle B of title X of Public Law 111-11) shall be
applied
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by substituting `$1,640,000,000' for `$870,000,000' and `2025' for
`2024'.
``Sec. 162. In addition to amounts otherwise provided by section
101, there is appropriated to the Department of the Treasury for
`Departmental Offices--Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence--
Salaries and Expenses', $908,000, for an additional amount for fiscal
year 2025, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to conduct risk
reduction and modification of National Security Systems: Provided, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
``Sec. 163. <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Section 302 of title III of
Public Law 108-494 shall be applied by substituting the date specified
in section 106(3) of this Act for `December 31, 2024' each place it
appears.
``Sec. 164. <<NOTE: Applicability.>> (a) Notwithstanding section
101, section 747 of title VII of division B of Public Law 118-47 shall
be applied through the date specified in section 106(3) of this Act by--
``(1) substituting `2024' for `2023' each place it appears;
``(2) substituting `2025' for `2024' each place it appears;
``(3) substituting `2026' for `2025'; and
``(4) substituting `section 747 of division B of Public Law
118-47, as in effect on September 30, 2024' for `section 747 of
division E of Public Law 117-328' each place it appears.
``(b) <<NOTE: Effective date.>> Subsection (a) shall not take effect
until the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or
after January 1, 2025.
``Sec. 165. <<NOTE: Apportionment.>> Amounts made available by
section 101 for `Department of Education--Student Aid Administration'
may be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to ensure the
continuation of student loan servicing activities and student aid
application and eligibility determination processes.
``Sec. 166. During the period covered by this Act, section 123 of
division A of Public Law 118-42 and the provisions carrying the same
restriction in prior Acts making appropriations to the Department of
Defense for military construction shall not apply to unobligated
balances from prior year appropriations made available under the heading
`Department of Defense--Military Construction, Army' and such balances
may be obligated for an access road project at Arlington National
Cemetery.
``Sec. 167. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, the second proviso
under the heading `Department of Veterans Affairs--Veterans Health
Administration--Medical Services' shall not apply during the period
covered by this Act.
``(b) Notwithstanding section 101, the second proviso under the
heading `Department of Veterans Affairs--Veterans Health
Administration--Medical Community Care' shall not apply during the
period covered by this Act.
``(c) Notwithstanding section 101, the second proviso under the
heading `Department of Veterans Affairs--Veterans Health
Administration--Medical Support and Compliance' shall not apply during
the period covered by this Act.
``Sec. 168. <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Notwithstanding section 101,
the fifth and sixth provisos under the heading `Millennium Challenge
Corporation' in division F of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied by
substituting `December 31, 2025' for `December 31, 2024' each place it
appears.
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``Sec. <<NOTE: Apportionment.>> 169. Amounts made available by
section 101 for `Department of Transportation--Federal Aviation
Administration--Operations' may be apportioned up to the rate for
operations necessary to fund mandatory pay increases and other
inflationary adjustments, to maintain and improve air traffic services,
to hire and train air traffic controllers, and to continue aviation
safety oversight, while avoiding service reductions.''.
This division may be cited as the ``Further Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2025''.
DIVISION B-- <<NOTE: Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act,
2025.>> DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
Processing, Research, and Marketing
office of the secretary
For an additional amount for ``Office of the Secretary'',
$30,780,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary
expenses related to losses of revenue, quality or production of crops
(including milk, on-farm stored commodities, crops prevented from
planting, and harvested adulterated wine grapes), trees, bushes, and
vines, as a consequence of droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods,
derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze, including a
polar vortex, smoke exposure, and excessive moisture occurring in
calendar years 2023 and 2024 under such terms and conditions as
determined by the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this title as
``Secretary''): Provided, <<NOTE: Determination. Time period.>> That of
the amounts provided in this paragraph under this heading in this Act,
the Secretary shall use up to $2,000,000,000 to provide assistance to
producers of livestock, as determined by the Secretary, for losses
incurred during calendar years 2023 and 2024 due to drought, wildfires,
or floods: Provided further, <<NOTE: Determination.>> That the Secretary
may provide assistance for such losses in the form of block grants to
eligible States and territories and such assistance may include
compensation to producers, as determined by the Secretary, for timber
(including payments to non-Federal forest landowners), citrus, pecan,
and poultry (including infrastructure) losses, and for agricultural
producers who have suffered losses due to the failure of Mexico to
deliver water to the United States in accordance with the 1944 Water
Treaty: Provided further, That of the amounts provided under this
heading in this Act, the Secretary shall offer individualized technical
assistance to interested non-insured producers to help them apply for
assistance made available under this heading: Provided further, That of
the amounts made available
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under this paragraph under this heading in this Act, the Secretary may
use up to $30,000,000, for reimbursement for administrative and
operating expenses available for crop insurance contracts for 2022 and
2023 reinsurance years in a manner consistent with Section 771 of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328): Provided
further, That of the amounts made available under this paragraph under
this heading in this Act, and without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.,
the Secretary shall use $3,000,000 to carry out regular testing for the
purposes of verifying and validating the methodology and protocols of
the inspection of molasses at any United States ports of entry,
including whether the molasses meets each statutory requirement without
the use of additives or blending, relevant definitional explanatory
notes, and each property typical of molasses in the United States as
directed in Senate Report 118-193: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Determination.>> That at the election of a processor
eligible for a loan under section 156 of the Federal Agriculture
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272) or a cooperative
processor of dairy, the Secretary shall make payments for losses in 2023
and 2024 to such processors (to be paid to producers, as determined by
such processors) in lieu of payments to producers and under the same
terms and conditions as payments made to processors pursuant to title I
of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act,
2019 (Public Law 116-20) under the heading ``Department of Agriculture--
Agricultural Programs--Processing, Research and Marketing--Office of the
Secretary'', as last amended by section 791(c) of title VII of division
B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-
94): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 760.1503(j) of title
7, Code of Federal Regulations, in the event that a processor described
in the preceding proviso does not elect to receive payments under such
clause, the Secretary shall make direct payments to producers under this
heading in this Act: Provided further, <<NOTE: Determinations.>> That
the total amount of payments received under this paragraph under this
heading in this Act for producers who did not obtain a policy or plan of
insurance for an insurable commodity for the applicable crop year under
the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) for the crop
incurring the losses or did not file the required paperwork and pay the
service fee by the applicable State filing deadline for a noninsurable
commodity for the applicable crop year under Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program for the crop incurring the losses shall not exceed 70
percent of the loss as determined by the Secretary, except the Secretary
shall provide payments not to exceed 90 percent of the producer's
revenue losses as determined by the Secretary if the Secretary
determines a de minimis amount of a producer's revenue loss is
attributable to crops for which the producer did not insure or obtain
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program coverage: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Applicability.>> That the amount provided in this
paragraph under this heading in this Act shall be subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in the first, second, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth, and 12th provisos under this heading in title I of the
Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (division B of
Public Law 117-43), except that such ninth proviso under such heading
shall be applied by substituting ``2023 and 2024'' for ``2020 and 2021''
and the Secretary shall apply a separate payment limit for economic
assistance payments: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Applicability. Reports.>> That not later than 120 days
after the enactment
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of this Act, and for each fiscal quarter thereafter until the amounts
provided under this heading in this Act are expended, the Secretary
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate on the implementation of any programs
provided for under this heading in this Act specifying the type, amount,
and method of such assistance by State and territory: Provided further,
That of the amounts provided in this paragraph, $10,000,000,000 shall be
made available for the Secretary to make economic assistance available
pursuant to section 2102 of this title in this Act: Provided further,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``Office of the Secretary'',
$220,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the Secretary to
provide assistance in the form of block grants to eligible States to
provide compensation to producers for necessary expenses related to
crop, timber, and livestock losses, including on-farm infrastructure, as
a consequence of any weather event in 2023 or 2024 that a State, in its
sole discretion, determines warrants such relief: Provided, That
eligible States are those States with a net farm income for 2023 of less
than $250,000,000, as recorded in the data in the Economic Research
Service publication ``Farm Income and Wealth Statistics'' as of December
3, 2024, and fewer than eight thousand farms and an average farm size of
fewer than one thousand acres per farm, as recorded in the National
Agricultural Statistics Service publication ``Farms and Land in Farms
2023 Summary (February, 2024)'': Provided further, That the Secretary
shall work with eligible States on any necessary terms and conditions of
the block grants, fully taking in account the needs of each State:
Provided further, That any such terms and conditions may not impose
additional costs on producers: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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Office of Inspector General
For an additional amount for ``Office of Inspector General'',
$7,500,000, to remain available until expended, for audits,
investigations, and other oversight of projects and activities carried
out with funds made available to the Department of Agriculture in this
Act: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Agricultural Research Service
buildings and facilities
For an additional amount for ``Buildings and Facilities'',
$42,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
Farm Service Agency
emergency forest restoration program
For an additional amount for ``Emergency Forest Restoration
Program'', $356,535,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
emergency conservation program
For an additional amount for ``Emergency Conservation Program'',
$828,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
emergency watershed protection program
For an additional amount for ``Emergency Watershed Protection
Program'' for necessary expenses for the Emergency Watershed Protection
Program, $920,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund
For an additional amount for the ``Rural Development Disaster
Assistance Fund'' as authorized under section 6945 of title 7, United
States Code, as amended by this Act, $362,500,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, <<NOTE: Applicability.>> That section 6945(b)
of title 7, United States Code, shall apply to amounts provided under
this heading in this Act: Provided further, That amounts provided under
this heading in this Act may not be transferred pursuant to section 2257
of title 7, United States Code: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS
Food and Nutrition Service
commodity assistance program
For an additional amount for ``Commodity Assistance Program'' for
the emergency food assistance program as authorized by section 27(a) of
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)) and section
204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C.
7508(a)(1)), $25,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026:
Provided, That such funds shall be for infrastructure needs related to
the consequences of a major disaster declaration pursuant to the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121
et seq.) in calendar years 2023 and 2024: Provided further, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE
Sec. 2101. Section 10101 of the Disaster Relief and Recovery
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-329;
7 U.S.C. 6945) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in the first sentence--
(i) by striking ``for authorized activities''
and inserting ``, in the form of loans, grants,
loan guarantees, or cooperative agreements, for
any authorized activity'';
(ii) by striking ``or'' between ``President''
and ``the Secretary of Agriculture'' and inserting
a comma; and
(iii) by inserting after ``the Secretary of
Agriculture'' the following: ``, or the Governor
of a State or Territory'';
(B) in the second sentence, inserting after ``to
carry out the activity'', the following: ``, but shall
not be limited to the original form of assistance, if
any''; and
(C) by inserting after the first sentence, as so
amended, the following: ``The cost of such direct and
guaranteed loans, including the cost of modifying loans,
shall be as
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defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974.''; and
(2) in subsection (c), to read as follows--
``(c) Waiver of Activity or Project Limitations.--For any activity
or project for which amounts in the Rural Development Disaster
Assistance Fund will be obligated under subsection (b)--
``(1) the Secretary of Agriculture may waive any limits on
population, income, age, and duplication with respect to
replacement of damaged or destroyed utilities, or cost-sharing
otherwise applicable, except that, if the amounts proposed to be
obligated in connection with the disaster would exceed the
amount specified in subsection (h), the notification required by
that subsection shall include information and justification with
regard to any waivers to be granted under this subsection;
``(2) the Secretary of Agriculture may use alternative
sources of income data provided by local, regional, State, or
Federal government sources to determine program eligibility; and
``(3) with respect to grants authorized by 7 U.S.C.
1926(a)(19), the Secretary of Agriculture shall not require the
applicant to demonstrate that it is unable to finance the
proposed project from its own resources, or through commercial
credit at reasonable rates and terms, or other funding sources
without grant assistance.''.
(3) Amounts provided by this section are designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 2102. <<NOTE: Time
periods. Determinations. Deadline. Payment.>> (a)(1) With respect to the
2024 crop year, if the Secretary determines that the expected gross
return per acre for an eligible commodity determined under paragraph (2)
is less than the expected cost of production per acre for that eligible
commodity determined under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall, not later
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, make a 1-time
economic assistance payment to each producer of that eligible commodity
during that crop year.
(2) The expected gross return per acre for an eligible
commodity referred to in paragraph (1) shall be equal to--
(A) in the case of wheat, corn, grain sorghum,
barley, oats, cotton, rice, and soybeans, the product
obtained by multiplying--
(i) the projected average farm price for the
applicable eligible commodity for the 2024-2025
marketing year contained in the most recent World
Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates published
before the date of enactment of this Act by the
World Agricultural Outlook Board; and
(ii) the national average harvested yield per
acre for the applicable eligible commodity for the
most recent 10 crop years, as determined by the
Secretary; and
(B) in the case of each eligible commodity not
specified in subparagraph (A), a comparable estimate of
gross returns, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) The expected cost of production per acre for an eligible
commodity referred to in paragraph (1) shall be equal to--
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(A) in the case of wheat, corn, grain sorghum,
barley, oats, cotton, rice, and soybeans, the total
costs listed for the 2024 crop year with respect to the
applicable eligible commodity contained in the most
recent data product entitled ``national average cost-of-
production forecasts for major U.S. field crops''
published by the Economic Research Service; and
(B) in the case of each eligible commodity not
specified in subparagraph (A), a comparable total
estimated cost-of-production, as determined by the
Secretary.
(4)(A) The amount of an economic assistance payment to a
producer for an eligible commodity under paragraph (1) shall be
equal to 26 percent of the product obtained by multiplying--
(i) the economic loss for that eligible
commodity determined under subparagraph (B); and
(ii) the eligible acres of that eligible
commodity on the farm determined under
subparagraph (C).
(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(i), the
economic loss for an eligible commodity shall be equal
to the difference between--
(i) the expected cost of production per acre
for that eligible commodity, as determined under
paragraph (3); and
(ii) the expected gross return per acre for
that eligible commodity, as determined under
paragraph (2).
(C) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(ii), the
eligible acres of an eligible commodity on a farm shall
be equal to the sum obtained by adding--
(i) the acreage planted on the farm to that
eligible commodity for harvest, grazing, haying,
silage, or other similar purposes for the 2024
crop year; and
(ii) an amount equal to 50 percent of the
acreage on the farm that was prevented from being
planted during the 2024 crop year to that eligible
commodity because of drought, flood, or other
natural disaster, or other condition beyond the
control of the producers on the farm, as
determined by the Secretary.
(D) For purposes of subparagraph (C)(i), the
Secretary shall consider acreage planted to include any
land devoted to planted acres for accepted skip-row
planting patterns, as determined by the Secretary.
(E) If the Secretary determines there is
insufficient data to determine the comparable estimate
of gross returns with respect to an eligible commodity
under paragraph (2)(B) or a comparable total estimated
cost-of-production with respect to an eligible commodity
under paragraph (3)(B), the Secretary shall use data
related to a similarly situated commodity for purposes
of determining the payment amount under this paragraph.
(5) In no case shall the amount of an economic assistance
payment to a producer for an eligible commodity under paragraph
(1) be equal to less than the product obtained by multiplying--
(A) 8 percent of the reference price for the
eligible commodity described in section 1111(19) of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9011(19));
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(B) the national average payment yield for the
eligible commodity described in section 1111(15) of that
Act (7 U.S.C. 9011(15)); and
(C) the number of eligible acres for the eligible
commodity described in paragraph (4)(C).
(b)(1) <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Except as provided in paragraph (2),
sections 1001, 1001A, 1001B, and 1001C of the Food Security Act of 1985
(7 U.S.C. 1308, 1308-1, 1308-2, 1308-3) shall apply with respect to
assistance provided under this section.
(2) The total amount of payments received, directly or
indirectly, by a person or legal entity (except a joint venture
or general partnership) under this section may not exceed--
(A) $125,000, if less than 75 percent of the average
gross income of the person or legal entity for the 2020,
2021, and 2022 tax years is derived from farming,
ranching, or silviculture activities; and
(B) $250,000, if not less than 75 percent of the
average gross income of the person or legal entity for
the 2020, 2021, and 2022 tax years is derived from
farming, ranching, or silviculture activities.
(3) The payment limitations under paragraph (2) shall be
separate from annual payment limitations under any other
program.
(c) <<NOTE: Definitions.>> In this section:
(1) The terms ``extra-long staple cotton'' and ``producer''
have the meanings given those terms in section 1111 of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9011).
(2) The term ``cotton'' means extra-long staple cotton and
upland cotton.
(3)(A) The term ``eligible commodity'' means a loan
commodity (as defined in section 1201(a) of the Agricultural Act
of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9031(a)).
(B) The term ``eligible commodity'' does not include
graded wool, nongraded wool, mohair, or honey.
(4) The terms ``legal entity'' and ``person'' have the
meanings given those terms in section 1001(a) of the Food
Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(a)).
(5) The term ``rice'' means long grain rice and medium grain
rice.
(6) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of
Agriculture.
(d) Amounts provided by this section are designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
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TITLE II
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economic Development Administration
economic development assistance programs
(including transfers of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Economic Development Assistance
Programs'', $1,510,000,000, to remain available until expended, pursuant
to sections 209 and 703 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act
(42 U.S.C. 3149 and 3233), for economic adjustment assistance related to
flood mitigation, disaster relief, long-term recovery, and restoration
of infrastructure in areas that received a major disaster designation as
a result of hurricanes, wildfires, severe storms and flooding,
tornadoes, and other natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023
and 2024 under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided, That within the
amount appropriated under this heading in this Act, up to 3 percent of
funds may be transferred to ``Salaries and Expenses'' for administration
and oversight activities: Provided further, That within the amount
appropriated under this heading in this Act, $10,000,000 shall be
transferred to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 2009aa et seq.):
Provided further, <<NOTE: Notification. Deadline.>> That the Delta
Regional Authority shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate 15 days prior to the obligation
of the amounts made available under the preceding proviso: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Compensation.>> That the Secretary of Commerce is
authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such temporary
personnel as may be necessary to implement the requirements under this
heading in this Act, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United
States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service: Provided
further, That within the amount appropriated under this heading in this
Act, $7,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Departmental Management--
Office of Inspector General'' for carrying out investigations and audits
related to the funding provided under this heading in this Act: Provided
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
operations, research, and facilities
For an additional amount for ``Operations, Research, and
Facilities'' for necessary expenses related to the consequences of
hurricanes, typhoons, flooding, wildfires, and other disasters in
calendar years 2023 and 2024, $244,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2026, as follows:
(1) $144,000,000 for repair and replacement of observing
assets, real property, and equipment; for marine debris
assessment and removal; and for mapping, charting, and geodesy
services; and
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(2) $100,000,000 for necessary expenses related to the
consequences of tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, flooding, and
wildfires in calendar year 2024;
Provided, <<NOTE: Spending plan. Deadline.>> That the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration shall submit a spending plan to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
procurement, acquisition and construction
For an additional amount for ``Procurement, Acquisition and
Construction'' for necessary expenses related to the consequences of
hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, volcanoes, and other disasters in
calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024, $499,000,000, to remain available
until expended, as follows:
(1) $100,000,000 for repair and replacement of observing
assets, real property, and equipment; and
(2) $399,000,000 for the acquisition of hurricane hunter
aircraft and related expenses as authorized under section 11708
of division K of Public Law 117-263:
Provided, <<NOTE: Spending plan. Deadline.>> That the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration shall submit a spending plan to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
fisheries disaster assistance
For an additional amount for ``Fisheries Disaster Assistance'' for
necessary expenses associated with fishery resource disaster relief as
authorized by law, $300,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, <<NOTE: Evaluation.>> That notwithstanding section
312(a)(3)(A) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (18 U.S.C. 1861a(a)(3)(A)), any request for a fishery resource
disaster determination in Tribal salmon and urchin fisheries received by
the Secretary prior to September 30, 2025, may be evaluated by the
Secretary: Provided further, That a portion of the amounts provided
under this heading in this Act shall be used to provide additional
assistance up to the historical percentage for positively determined
disasters announced in calendar year 2024 that were partially funded:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
United States Marshals Service
salaries and expenses
For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', $12,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2027, for necessary expenses
related to the protection of the residences of the Supreme Court
Justices: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Federal Prison System
buildings and facilities
For an additional amount for ``Buildings and Facilities'',
$64,795,500, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of major disasters: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SCIENCE
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
construction and environmental compliance and restoration
(including transfer of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Construction and Environmental
Compliance and Restoration'' for repair and replacement of National
Aeronautics and Space Administration facilities damaged by hurricanes,
tropical storms, typhoons, and tornadoes in calendar years 2023 and
2024, $740,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
up to 20 percent of such amount may be transferred to ``Space
Operations'' for necessary expenses related to communications facilities
and equipment, required remediation, and alternative operations caused
by Typhoon Mawar: Provided further, That except as provided in the
preceding proviso, the amounts appropriated under this heading in this
Act shall not be available for transfer under any transfer authority
provided for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in an
appropriation Act for fiscal year 2025: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Spending plan. Deadline.>> That the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration shall submit a spending plan to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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TITLE III
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Operation and Maintenance, Army
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'',
$451,894,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of severe storms,
straight-line winds, tornadoes, microbursts, and hurricanes in calendar
years 2023 and 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Navy
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'',
$1,454,153,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Ian,
Nicole, Idalia, Helene, and Milton, Typhoon Mawar, and severe storms in
calendar year 2023: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine
Corps'', $8,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and
Milton: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
Force'', $912,778,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and
Milton and Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
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Operation and Maintenance, Space Force
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Space
Force'', $90,230,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and
Milton and Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide'', $1,208,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and
Milton: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army
Reserve'', $19,594,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025,
for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene
and Milton and microbursts in calendar year 2024: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force
Reserve'', $1,319,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and
Milton and Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army
National Guard'', $26,065,000, to remain available until September 30,
2025, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes
Helene and Milton, Typhoon Mawar, and severe storms in calendar years
2023 and 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard
For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
National Guard'', $2,209,000, to remain available until September 30,
2025, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane
Helene and Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency
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requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
PROCUREMENT
Procurement of Ammunition, Army
For an additional amount for ``Procurement of Ammunition, Army'',
$125,100,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Helene:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Other Procurement, Air Force
For an additional amount for ``Other Procurement, Air Force'',
$129,722,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon Mawar:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Procurement, Space Force
For an additional amount for ``Procurement, Space Force'',
$37,994,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for necessary
expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army
For an additional amount for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army'', $41,400,000, to remain available until September 30,
2026, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of severe
storms and wave overwash: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force
For an additional amount for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Air Force'', $69,278,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2026, for necessary expenses related to the consequences
of Typhoon Mawar: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
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OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Defense Health Program
For an additional amount for ``Defense Health Program'',
$17,362,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for necessary
expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene and Milton:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TITLE IV
CORPS OF ENGINEERS--CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Corps of Engineers--Civil
investigations
For an additional amount for ``Investigations'', $20,000,000, to
remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related to the
completion, or initiation and completion, of flood and storm damage
reduction, including shore protection, studies that are currently
authorized, to reduce risks from future floods and hurricanes, at full
Federal expense: Provided, That amounts made available under this
heading in this Act shall be for high-priority studies of projects in
States and insular areas with a major disaster, including for glacial
lake outbursts, in calendar year 2022, 2023, or 2024: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Deadlines. Work plan. List. Costs. Schedule.>> That not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act and not less
than three business days prior to public release, the Chief of Engineers
shall submit directly to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate a detailed work plan for the funds
provided under this heading in this Act, including a list of study
locations, new studies selected to be initiated, the total cost for each
study selected for funding, the remaining cost for each ongoing study
selected for funding, and a schedule by fiscal year of the proposed use
of such funds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army shall
not deviate from the work plan, once the plan has been submitted to such
Committees: Provided further, That funds included in a submitted work
plan shall be deemed allocated to specific projects and subject to the
reprogramming requirements specified in section 101(6) of the Energy and
Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024:
Provided further, That beginning <<NOTE: Time period. Reports.>> not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act and until all
amounts provided under this heading in this Act have been expended, the
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works shall provide a
quarterly report directly to such Committees detailing the allocation,
obligation, and expenditure of the funds provided under this heading in
this Act: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
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construction
For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $700,000,000, to
remain available until expended, for necessary expenses to address
emergency situations at Corps of Engineers projects, construct Corps of
Engineers projects, and rehabilitate and repair damages caused by
natural disasters to Corps of Engineers projects: Provided, That of the
amount provided under this heading in this Act, $100,000,000 shall be
used for continuing authorities projects to reduce the risk of flooding
and storm damage, notwithstanding project number or program cost
limitations: Provided further, That of the amount provided under this
heading in this Act, $300,000,000 shall be to complete, or initiate and
complete, without regard to new start or new investment decision
considerations, a useful increment of work for water-related
environmental infrastructure assistance in States and insular areas that
were impacted by disasters occurring in or prior to calendar year 2024:
Provided further, That of the amount provided under this heading in this
Act, $300,000,000 shall be for projects that have previously received
funds under this heading in chapter 4 of title X of the Disaster Relief
Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of Public Law 113-2), title IV of
division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123), or
title IV of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022
(division B of Public Law 117-43), and for which non-Federal interests
have entered into binding agreements with the Secretary as of the date
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That each project receiving
funds pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be subject to the terms
and conditions of such chapter 4 of title X of the Disaster Relief
Appropriations Act, 2013 (division A of Public Law 113-2), title IV of
division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123), or
title IV of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022
(division B of Public Law 117-43), and as specifically modified by
section 111 of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division D of Public Law 118-42), as
applicable: Provided further, That of the amount provided under this
heading in this Act, such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal
share of eligible construction costs for coastal harbors and channels,
and for inland harbors eligible to be derived from the Harbor
Maintenance Trust Fund under section 101 or section 104 of the Water
Resources and Development Act of 2020 shall be derived from the general
fund of the Treasury: Provided further, That for projects receiving
funding under this heading in this Act, the limitation concerning total
project costs in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act of
1986 (Public Law 99-662) shall not apply to funds provided under this
heading in this Act: Provided further, That for <<NOTE: Time
period.>> any projects using funding provided under this heading in this
Act, the non-Federal cash contribution for projects shall be financed in
accordance with the provisions of section 103(k) of Public Law 99-662
over a period of 30 years from the date of completion of the project,
separable element, or useful increment: Provided further,
That <<NOTE: Contracts.>> any projects initiated using funds provided
under this heading in this Act shall be initiated only after non-Federal
interests have entered into binding agreements with the Secretary
requiring, where applicable, the non-Federal interests to pay 100
percent of the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and
rehabilitation costs of the project and to hold and save
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the United States free from damages due to the construction or operation
and maintenance of the project, except for damages due to the fault or
negligence of the United States or its contractors: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Deadlines. Work plan. Project costs. Schedule. List.>>
That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act and
not less than three business days prior to public release, the Chief of
Engineers shall submit directly to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed work plan for the
funds provided under this heading in this Act, including a list of
project locations, the total cost for all projects, and a schedule by
fiscal year of proposed use of such funds: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall not deviate from the work plan, once the plan has been
submitted to such Committees: Provided further, That funds included in a
submitted work plan shall be deemed allocated to specific projects and
subject to the reprogramming requirements specified in section 101(7) of
the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2024: Provided further, <<NOTE: Time period. Reports.>> That
beginning not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act
and until all amounts provided under this heading in this Act have been
expended, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works shall
provide a quarterly report directly to such Committees detailing the
allocation, obligation, and expenditure of the funds provided under this
heading in this Act: Provided further, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
mississippi river and tributaries
For an additional amount for ``Mississippi River and Tributaries'',
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
to address emergency situations at Corps of Engineers projects, and to
construct, and rehabilitate and repair damages to Corps of Engineers
projects, caused by natural disasters: Provided, <<NOTE: Time
period. Reports.>> That beginning not later than 60 days after the date
of enactment of this Act and until all amounts provided under this
heading in this Act have been expended, the Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Civil Works shall provide a quarterly report directly to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate detailing the allocation, obligation, and expenditure of the
funds provided under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
flood control and coastal emergencies
For an additional amount for ``Flood Control and Coastal
Emergencies'', as authorized by section 5 of the Act of August 18, 1941
(33 U.S.C. 701n), $745,000,000, to remain available until expended, for
necessary expenses to prepare for flood, hurricane, and other natural
disasters and support emergency operations, repairs, and other
activities in response to such disasters, as authorized by law:
Provided, That funding provided under this heading in this Act utilized
to repair authorized shore protection projects shall restore such
projects to their full project profile at full Federal expense: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Time period. Reports.>> That beginning not later than
60 days
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after the date of enactment of this Act and until all amounts provided
under this heading in this Act have been expended, the Chief of
Engineers shall provide a quarterly report directly to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing
the allocation, obligation, and expenditure of the funds provided under
this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
water and related resources
For an additional amount for ``Water and Related Resources'',
$74,464,000, to remain available until expended, of which $27,930,000
shall be for necessary expenses related to the consequences of natural
disasters that occurring in or prior to calendar year 2024: Provided,
That $46,534,000 shall be available for deposit into the Aging
Infrastructure Account established by section 9603(d)(1) of the Omnibus
Public Land Management Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 510b(d)(1)), and shall be
made available for reserved or transferred works that have suffered a
critical failure, in accordance with section 40901(2)(A) of division D
of Public Law 117-58: Provided further, That such amount is designated
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ENERGY PROGRAMS
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
For an additional amount for ``Strategic Petroleum Reserve'',
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to damages caused by natural disasters: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Weapons Activities
For an additional amount for ``Weapons Activities'', $1,884,000, to
remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related to
damages caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES
Defense Environmental Cleanup
For an additional amount for ``Defense Environmental Cleanup'',
$2,415,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to damages caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Provided,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TITLE V
THE JUDICIARY
Supreme Court of the United States
salaries and expenses
For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', $13,597,000,
to remain available until expended, for protection of the residences of
the Supreme Court Justices: Provided, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Small Business Administration
disaster loans program account
(including transfer of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Disaster Loans Program Account'' for
the cost of direct loans authorized by section 7(b) of the Small
Business Act, $2,249,000,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $50,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Small Business
Administration--Office of Inspector General'' for audits and reviews of
disaster loans and the disaster loans programs, and of which
$613,000,000 may be transferred to ``Small Business Administration--
Salaries and Expenses'' for administrative expenses to carry out the
disaster loan program authorized by section 7(b) of the Small Business
Act: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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TITLE VI
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS
Coast Guard
operations and support
For an additional amount for ``Operations and Support'',
$102,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of the Francis Scott Key
Bridge collapse and other disasters, including for minor repairs,
maintenance, and environmental remediation costs:
Provided, <<NOTE: Expenditure plan. Time period. Updates.>> That the
Commandant of the Coast Guard shall provide to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate an
expenditure plan and quarterly updates for the expenditure of such
funds: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
procurement, construction, and improvements
For an additional amount for ``Procurement, Construction, and
Improvements'', $210,200,000, to remain available until September 30,
2029, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of disasters:
Provided, <<NOTE: Expenditure plan. Time period. Updates.>> That the
Commandant of the Coast Guard shall provide to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate an
expenditure plan and quarterly updates for the expenditure of such
funds: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
disaster relief fund
(including transfer of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Disaster Relief Fund'',
$29,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
$28,000,000,000 shall be for major disasters declared pursuant to the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided, That $4,000,000 shall be transferred to
``Office of Inspector General--Operations and Support'' for audits and
investigations funded under ``Federal Emergency Management Agency--
Disaster Relief Fund'': Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
[[Page 138 STAT. 1746]]
hermit's peak/calf canyon fire assistance account
(including transfer of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire
Assistance Account'', $1,500,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That $1,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Office of
Inspector General--Operations and Support'' for oversight of activities
authorized by the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act:
Provided further, <<NOTE: Reports.>> That the amounts provided under
this heading in this Act shall be subject to the reporting requirement
in the third proviso of section 136 of the Continuing Appropriations
Act, 2023 (division A of Public Law 117-180): Provided further, That
amounts provided under this heading in this Act shall be subject to the
same authorities and conditions as if such amounts were provided by
title III of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2024 (division C of Public Law 118-47): Provided further, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
procurement, construction, and improvements
For an additional amount for ``Procurement, Construction, and
Improvements'', $14,020,000, to remain available until September 30,
2029, for necessary expenses relating to the consequences of disasters:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TITLE VII
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
management of lands and resources
For an additional amount for ``Management of Lands and Resources'',
$58,115,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in and prior
to calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
United States Fish And Wildlife Service
construction
For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $500,000,000, to
remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related
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to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in and prior to
calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
National Park Service
historic preservation fund
For an additional amount for ``Historic Preservation Fund'',
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in and prior
to calendar year 2024, including costs to States, Tribes, and
territories necessary to complete compliance activities required by
section 306108 of title 54, United States Code, and costs needed to
administer the program: Provided, That funds appropriated under this
heading in this Act shall be used for historic and cultural resource
preservation work that meets the Secretary of the Interior's Standards
and Guidelines as published in the Federal Register (Vol. 48, No. 190,
September 29, 1983), to include Reconstruction of National Register
listed or eligible sites: Provided further, That grants using funds
appropriated under this heading in this Act shall only be available for
areas that have received a major disaster declaration pursuant to the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided further, That such grants shall not be
subject to a non-Federal matching requirement: Provided further, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
construction
For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $2,262,871,000, to
remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related to the
consequences of disasters, including hurricanes, tropical storms,
tornadoes, and other severe storms, wildfire, fire, and flooding
occurring in and prior to calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
United States Geological Survey
surveys, investigations, and research
For an additional amount for ``Surveys, Investigations, and
Research'', $2,743,000, to remain available until expended, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of natural disasters
occurring in and prior to calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs
operation of indian programs
For an additional amount for ``Operation of Indian Programs'',
$17,765,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in and prior
to calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Bureau of Indian Education
education construction
For an additional amount for ``Education Construction'',
$153,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in and prior
to calendar year 2024: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Office of Inspector General
salaries and expenses
For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', $8,000,000,
to remain available until expended, for oversight of the Department of
the Interior activities funded by this Act: Provided, That such amount
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program
For an additional amount for ``Leaking Underground Storage Tank
Trust Fund Program'', $17,000,000, to remain available until expended,
for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Helene
and Hilary: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
For an additional amount for ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'',
$3,000,000,000 to remain available until expended, of which
$1,230,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants for the Clean Water
State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, and of which $1,770,000,000 shall be for capitalization
grants under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided, That
notwithstanding section 604(a) of the Federal
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Water Pollution Control Act and section 1452(a)(1)(D) of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act
shall be provided to States or territories in EPA Regions 3, 4, and 9 in
amounts determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency for wastewater treatment works and drinking water facilities
impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and Hawaii wildfires: Provided
further, That notwithstanding the requirements of section 603(i) of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and section 1452(d) of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, for the funds appropriated under this paragraph in
this Act, each State shall use not less than 30 percent of the amount of
its capitalization grants to provide additional subsidization to
eligible recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, negative
interest loans or grants, or any combination of these: Provided further,
That the funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act shall be
used for eligible projects whose purpose is to reduce flood or fire
damage risk and vulnerability or to enhance resiliency to rapid
hydrologic change or natural disaster at treatment works, as defined by
section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or any eligible
facilities under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for
other eligible tasks at such treatment works or facilities necessary to
further such purposes: Provided further, That the funds provided under
this paragraph in this Act shall not be subject to the matching or cost
share requirements of section 1452(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act:
Provided further, That funds provided under this paragraph in this Act
shall not be subject to the matching or cost share requirements of
sections 602(b)(2), 602(b)(3), or 202 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act: Provided further, That the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency may retain up to $5,000,000 of the funds
appropriated under this paragraph in this Act for management and
oversight: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'',
$85,000,000, to remain available until expended, for capitalization
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Provided,
That <<NOTE: Determination.>> notwithstanding section 604(a) of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, funds appropriated under this
paragraph in this Act shall be provided to States or territories in EPA
Regions 3 and 4 impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in amounts
determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
to improve the resilience of decentralized wastewater treatment systems
to flooding, to assess the potential to connect homes served by
decentralized wastewater treatment systems to centralized wastewater
systems, and to fund such connections: Provided further, That
notwithstanding the requirements of section 603(i) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, for the funds appropriated under this paragraph
in this Act, each State shall use 100 percent of the amount of its
capitalization grants to provide additional subsidization to eligible
recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, grants, negative
interest loans, other loan forgiveness, and through buying, refinancing,
or restructuring debt or any combination thereof: Provided further, That
funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act shall not be subject
to the matching
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or cost share requirements of sections 602(b)(2), 602(b)(3), or 202 of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Provided further, That the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may retain up to
$3,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act
for management and oversight: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'',
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
to address water emergencies under section 1442(b) of the Safe Drinking
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-1(b)) or section 504(a) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1364) in States or territories in EPA
Regions 3 and 4 impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Provided, That
notwithstanding section 1442(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, funds
appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may be used to provide
technical assistance and grants regardless of whether the emergency
situation presents a substantial danger to public health: Provided
further, That notwithstanding section 1442(b) of the Safe Drinking Water
Act, funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may be used to
provide grants regardless of whether such grants will be used to support
actions that would not otherwise be taken without emergency assistance:
Provided further, <<NOTE: Determination.>> That funds appropriated under
this paragraph in this Act may be used to provide technical assistance
and grants under section 1442(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Act to any
appropriate recipient, as determined by the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, to assist in responding to and
alleviating an emergency situation affecting a privately owned water
system: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this paragraph
in this Act may be used to take actions authorized under section 504(a)
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act that the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency deems necessary to protect the health or
welfare of persons affected by a water emergency, including other
necessary actions and for providing technical assistance and grants to
address such water emergency: Provided further, That the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency may retain up to $1,000,000 of
the funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act for management
and oversight: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'',
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended, for grants and other
activities authorized by subsections (a) through (c) of section 103 of
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7403) or section 105 of such Act (42 U.S.C.
7405) for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes
Milton and Helene, including repair or replacement of damaged air
monitoring equipment: Provided, That funds appropriated under this
paragraph in this Act may be awarded noncompetitively: Provided further,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'',
$95,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the
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hazardous waste financial assistance grants program and other solid
waste management activities for necessary expenses related to the
consequences of Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Provided, That none of the
funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act shall be subject to
section 3011(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act: Provided further, That
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may retain up
to $500,000 of the funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act
for management and oversight: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
forest service operations
For an additional amount for ``Forest Service Operations'',
$68,100,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of calendar year 2022, 2023, and 2024
wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
forest and rangeland research
For an additional amount for ``Forest and Rangeland Research'',
$26,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of calendar year 2022, 2023, and 2024
wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters: Provided, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
state, private, and tribal forestry
For an additional amount for ``State, Private, and Tribal
Forestry'', $208,000,000, to remain available until expended, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of calendar year 2022,
2023, and 2024 wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters:
Provided, That of the amounts made available under this heading in this
Act, $14,000,000 shall be to provide Forest Health Protection assistance
to States for an emerging eastern spruce budworm outbreak approaching
the northeastern U.S. border: Provided further, That with respect to the
preceding proviso, an award of financial assistance from the Forest
Service will not be subject to a non-Federal cost-share requirement:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
national forest system
For an additional amount for ``National Forest System'',
$2,523,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
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of the amounts made available under this heading in this Act,
$2,448,000,000 shall be for necessary expenses related to the
consequences of calendar year 2022, 2023, and 2024 wildfires,
hurricanes, and other natural disasters: Provided further, That of the
amounts made available under this heading in this Act, $75,000,000 shall
be for the construction or maintenance of shaded fuel breaks in the
Pacific Regions: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
capital improvement and maintenance
For an additional amount for ``Capital Improvement and
Maintenance'', $3,525,000,000, to remain available until expended, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of calendar year 2022,
2023, and 2024 wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE
Sec. 2701. <<NOTE: 43 USC 1457 note.>> Notwithstanding section
3304 of title 5, United States Code, and without regard to the
provisions of sections 3309 through 3318 of such title 5, the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the
Chief of the Forest Service, may recruit and directly appoint highly
qualified individuals into the competitive service to address critical
hiring needs for the planning and execution of the projects and
activities funded in this title: Provided, That such authority shall not
apply to positions in the Excepted Service or the Senior Executive
Service: Provided further, <<NOTE: Compliance.>> That any action
authorized herein shall be consistent with the merit principles of
section 2301 of such title 5, and the Department of the Interior and the
Department of Agriculture shall comply with the public notice
requirements of section 3327 of such title 5: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Termination date.>> That the authority under this
section shall terminate on September 30, 2029: Provided further, That
amounts provided by this section are designated by the Congress as being
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 2702. <<NOTE: Deadlines. Operating plan.>> Not later than 45
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the agencies receiving
funds appropriated by this title shall provide a detailed operating plan
of anticipated uses of funds made available in this title by State and
Territory, and by program, project, and activity, to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided,
That no such funds shall be obligated before the operating plans are
provided to such Committees: Provided further, <<NOTE: Updates.>> That
such plans shall be updated, including obligations and expenditures to
date, and submitted to such Committees on Appropriations every 60 days
until all such funds are expended.
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TITLE VIII
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
payments to states for the child care and development block grant
For an additional amount for ``Payments to States for the Child Care
and Development Block Grant'', $250,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2026, for necessary expenses directly related to the
consequences of major disasters and emergencies declared pursuant to the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in 2023 and 2024 (referred to under this
heading in this Act as ``covered disaster or emergency''), including
activities authorized under section 319(a) of the Public Health Service
Act: Provided, That <<NOTE: Allocation. Assessment.>> the Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall allocate such funds to States,
territories, and Tribes based on assessed need notwithstanding sections
658J and 658O of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990:
Provided further, That not to exceed 2 percent of funds appropriated in
this paragraph may be reserved, to remain available until expended, for
Federal administration costs: Provided further, That such funds may be
used for alteration, renovation, construction, equipment, and other
capital improvement costs, including for child care facilities without
regard to section 658F(b) of such Act, and for other expenditures
related to child care, as necessary to meet the needs of areas affected
by a covered disaster or emergency: Provided further, That funds made
available in this paragraph may be used without regard to section 658G
of such Act and with amounts allocated for such purposes excluded from
the calculation of percentages under subsection 658E(c)(3) of such Act:
Provided further, <<NOTE: Time periods.>> That notwithstanding section
658J(c) of such Act, funds allotted to a State may be obligated by the
State in that fiscal year or the succeeding three fiscal years: Provided
further, That Federal interest provisions will not apply to the
renovation or construction of privately-owned family child care homes,
and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop parameters
on the use of funds for family child care homes: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Time period.>> That the Secretary shall not retain
Federal interest after a period of 10 years (from the date on which the
funds are made available to purchase or improve the property) in any
facility renovated or constructed with funds made available in this
paragraph: Provided further, That funds made available in this paragraph
shall not be available for costs that are reimbursed by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, under a contract for insurance, or by self-
insurance: Provided further, That <<NOTE: Reimbursement.>> funds
appropriated in this paragraph may be made available to restore amounts,
either directly or through reimbursement, for obligations incurred for
such purposes, prior to the date of enactment of this Act: Provided
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
For an additional amount for ``Payments to States for the Child Care
and Development Block Grant'', $250,000,000, to remain
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available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That amounts made
available in this paragraph shall be available without regard to
requirements in sections 658E(c)(3)(E) or 658G of the Child Care and
Development Block Grant Act: Provided further, <<NOTE: Time
periods.>> That payments made to States, territories, Indian Tribes, and
Tribal organizations from amounts made available in this paragraph shall
be obligated in this fiscal year or the succeeding two fiscal years:
Provided further, That amounts made available in this paragraph shall be
used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local
public funds expended to provide child care services for eligible
individuals: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
GENERAL PROVISION--THIS TITLE
Sec. 2801. <<NOTE: Deadline. Operating plans.>> Not later than 45
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the agencies receiving
funds appropriated by this title in this Act shall provide a detailed
operating plan of anticipated uses of funds made available in this title
in this Act by State and territory, and by program, project, and
activity, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate: Provided, That no such funds shall be
obligated before the operating plans are provided to such Committees:
Provided further, <<NOTE: Updates. Time period.>> That such plans shall
be updated, including obligations to date and anticipated use of funds
made available in this title in this Act, and submitted to such
Committees quarterly until all such funds expire.
TITLE IX
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
salaries and expenses
For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', $10,000,000,
to remain available until expended, for audits and investigations
related to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other disasters declared
pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) in calendar years 2023 and 2024:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TITLE X
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps
For an additional amount for ``Military Construction, Navy and
Marine Corps'', $1,127,281,000, to remain available until September 30,
2029, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon
Mawar: Provided, <<NOTE: Deadline. Submission. Expenditure plan.>> That
not later than 60 days after
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enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy, or their designee,
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate form 1391 for each specific project and
an expenditure plan for funds provided under this heading in this Act:
Provided further, That such funds may be obligated or expended for
design and military construction projects not otherwise authorized by
law: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Military Construction, Air Force
For an additional amount for ``Military Construction, Air Force'',
$487,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon Mawar:
Provided, That <<NOTE: Deadline. Submission. Expenditure plan.>> not
later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air
Force, or their designee, shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate form 1391
for each specific project and an expenditure plan for funds provided
under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such funds may be
obligated or expended for design and military construction projects not
otherwise authorized by law: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Military Construction, Army National Guard
For an additional amount for ``Military Construction, Army National
Guard'', $21,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for
necessary expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon Mawar and
severe storms in calendar year 2023: Provided,
That <<NOTE: Deadline. Submission. Expenditure plan.>> not later than
60 days after enactment of this Act, the Director of the Army National
Guard, or their designee, shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate form 1391
for each specific project and an expenditure plan for funds provided
under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such funds may be
obligated or expended for design and military construction projects not
otherwise authorized by law: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Family Housing Construction, Navy and Marine Corps
For an additional amount for ``Family Housing Construction, Navy and
Marine Corps'', $27,399,000, to remain available until September 30,
2029, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Typhoon
Mawar: Provided, <<NOTE: Deadline. Expenditure plan.>> That not later
than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy, or
their designee, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate an expenditure plan for funds
provided under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such
amount is designated by the Congress as being
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for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps
For an additional amount for ``Family Housing Operation and
Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps'', $102,168,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2026, for necessary expenses related to the
consequences of Typhoon Mawar: Provided, <<NOTE: Deadline. Expenditure
plan.>> That not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of the Navy, or their designee, shall submit to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate an
expenditure plan for funds provided under this heading in this Act:
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Veterans Health Administration
medical services
For an additional amount for ``Medical Services'', $19,258,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2027, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton and Helene: Provided,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
medical support and compliance
For an additional amount for ``Medical Support and Compliance'',
$330,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for necessary
expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton and Helene:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
medical facilities
For an additional amount for ``Medical Facilities'', $41,660,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2029, for necessary expenses
related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton and Helene and other
Federally declared disasters occurring in 2023 and 2024: Provided, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
[[Page 138 STAT. 1757]]
National Cemetery Administration
For an additional amount for ``National Cemetery Administration''
for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton
and Helene, $693,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Departmental Administration
construction, major projects
For an additional amount for ``Construction, Major Projects'',
$4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for necessary
expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton and Helene:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
construction, minor projects
For an additional amount for ``Construction, Minor Projects'',
$2,020,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for necessary
expenses related to the consequences of Hurricanes Milton and Helene:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TITLE XI
DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
International Commissions
international boundary and water commission, united states and mexico
construction
For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $250,000,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, <<NOTE: Notification.>> That
funds provided under this heading in this Act shall be subject to prior
consultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
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TITLE XII
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
emergency relief program <<NOTE: Maryland.>>
For an additional amount for the ``Emergency Relief Program'' as
authorized under section 125 of title 23, United States Code,
$8,086,020,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
notwithstanding subsection (e) of section 120 of title 23, United States
Code, for any obligations made on or after March 26, 2024, for fiscal
year 2024, this fiscal year, and hereafter, the Federal share for
Emergency Relief funds made available under section 125 of such title to
respond to damage caused by the cargo ship Dali to the Francis Scott Key
Bridge located in Baltimore City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel
Counties, Maryland, including reconstruction of that bridge and its
approaches, shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That consistent with
section 668.105(e) of title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (or a
successor regulation), any insurance proceeds, judgments, settlements,
penalties, fines, or other compensation for damages, including interest,
from whatever source derived, recovered by a State, a political
subdivision of a State, or a toll authority for repair, including
reconstruction, of the Francis Scott Key Bridge located in Baltimore
City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland, in response to,
or as a result of, the damage caused by the cargo ship Dali to that
bridge and its approaches, shall be used upon receipt to reduce
liability on the repair, including reconstruction, of such bridge and
its approaches from the emergency fund authorized under section 125 of
title 23, United States Code: Provided further, That any funds recovered
and used to reduce liability pursuant to the preceding proviso shall not
exceed the total amount of liability on the repair, including
reconstruction, of the Francis Scott Key Bridge located in Baltimore
City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland, and its
approaches, from the emergency fund authorized under section 125 of
title 23, United States Code: Provided further, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Community Planning and Development
community development fund
(including transfers of funds)
For an additional amount for ``Community Development Fund'',
$12,039,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the same
purposes and under the same terms and conditions as funds appropriated
under such heading in title VIII of the Disaster Relief Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-43), except that such amounts
shall be for major disasters that occurred in 2023 or 2024 and the
fourth, tenth, 15th, 16th, 20th, and 21st
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provisos under such heading in such Act shall not apply: Provided,
That <<NOTE: Allocations. Federal Register, publication. Deadline.>>
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall allocate all funds
provided under this heading in this Act for the total estimate for unmet
needs including additional mitigation for qualifying disasters and
publish such allocations in the Federal Register no later than January
15, 2025: Provided further, That the amount obligated for each
qualifying disaster area shall be no less than the amounts specified in
such Federal Register publication, unless such allocation is rejected by
the grantee: Provided further, That <<NOTE: Plan. Criteria.>> a grantee
shall submit a plan to the Secretary for approval detailing the proposed
use of all funds, including criteria for eligibility and how the use of
these funds will address long-term recovery and restoration of
infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization, and mitigation in
the most impacted and distressed areas: Provided
further, <<NOTE: Effective date.>> That unobligated balances remaining
as of the date of enactment of this Act included under Treasury
Appropriation Fund Symbol 86 X 0162 from Public Laws 108-324, 109-148,
109-234, 110-252, 110-329, 111-212, 112-55, and 113-2 shall also be
available for the purposes authorized under this heading in this Act
(except that the amount for each set-aside provided herein shall not be
exceeded), notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were
appropriated: Provided further, That of the amounts made available under
this heading in this Act, $45,000,000 shall be transferred to
``Department of Housing and Urban Development--Management and
Administration--Program Offices'' for salaries and expenses of the
Office of Community Planning and Development for necessary costs,
including information technology costs, of administering and overseeing
the obligation and expenditure of amounts made available for activities
authorized under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) related to disaster relief, long-term
recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic
revitalization, and mitigation in the most impacted and distressed areas
resulting from a major disaster in this, prior, or future Acts (``this,
prior, or future disaster Acts''): Provided further, That of the amounts
made available under this heading in this Act, $1,850,000 shall be
transferred to ``Department of Housing and Urban Development--
Information Technology Fund'' for the disaster recovery data portal:
Provided further, That of the amounts made available under this heading
in this Act, $7,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Department of Housing
and Urban Development--Office of Inspector General'' for necessary costs
of overseeing and auditing amounts made available in this, prior, or
future disaster Acts: Provided further, That of the amounts made
available under this heading in this Act, $25,000,000 shall be made
available for capacity building and technical assistance, including
assistance on contracting and procurement processes, to support
recipients of allocations from this, prior, or future disaster Acts:
Provided further, That amounts made available under this heading in this
Act may be used by a grantee to assist utilities as part of a disaster-
related eligible activity under section 105(a) of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)): Provided
further, <<NOTE: 42 USC 4370mm-4 note.>> That recipients of funds made
available in this, prior, or future disaster Acts that use such funds to
supplement other Federal assistance may adopt, without review or public
comment, any environmental review, approval, or permit performed
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by a Federal agency, and such adoption shall satisfy the
responsibilities of the recipient with respect to such environmental
review, approval or permit, so long as the actions covered by the
existing environmental review, approval, or permit and the actions
proposed for these supplemental funds are substantially the same:
Provided further, That <<NOTE: Request. Certification.>> the Secretary
or a State may, upon receipt of a request for release of funds and
certification, immediately approve the release of funds for any activity
or project if the recipient has adopted an environmental review,
approval or permit under the previous proviso or if the activity or
project is categorically excluded from review under the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
notwithstanding section 104(g)(2) of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304(g)(2)): Provided further, That
such amount and amounts repurposed under this heading that were
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
TITLE XIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 21301. Each amount appropriated or made available by this Act
is in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year
involved.
Sec. 21302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 21303. Unless otherwise provided for by this Act, the
additional amounts appropriated by this Act to appropriations accounts
shall be available under the authorities and conditions applicable to
such appropriations accounts for fiscal year 2025.
Sec. 21304. <<NOTE: President. Designations.>> Each amount
designated in divisions A or B by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or
repurposed, rescinded, or transferred, if applicable) only if the
President subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such
designations to the Congress.
Sec. 21305. Any amount appropriated by divisions A or B, designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985, and subsequently so designated by the President, and
transferred pursuant to transfer authorities provided by this division
shall retain such designation.
Sec. 21306. Budgetary Effects.--
(1) Statutory paygo scorecards.--The budgetary effects of
division C and each succeeding division shall not be entered on
either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of
the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
(2) Senate paygo scorecards.--The budgetary effects of
division C and each succeeding division shall not be entered
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on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106
of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).
(3) Classification of budgetary effects.--Notwithstanding
Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the
joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference
accompanying Conference Report 105-217 and section 250(c)(8) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
the budgetary effects of division C and each succeeding division
shall not be estimated--
(A) for purposes of section 251 of such Act;
(B) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee
on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
(C) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of
the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being
included in an appropriation Act.
(4) <<NOTE: Effective date. Determination.>> Balances on the
paygo scorecards.--Effective on the date of the adjournment of
the second session of the 118th Congress, and for the purposes
of the annual report issued pursuant to section 5 of the
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 934) after such
adjournment and for determining whether a sequestration order is
necessary under such section, the balances on the PAYGO
scorecards established pursuant to paragraphs (4) and (5) of
section 4(d) of such Act shall be zero.
This division may be cited as the ``Disaster Relief Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2025''.
DIVISION C-- <<NOTE: Health Extensions and Other Matters Act,
2025.>> HEALTH
SEC. 3001. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) <<NOTE: 42 USC 201 note.>> Short Title.--This division may be
cited as the ``Health Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2025''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this division is
as follows:
Sec. 3001. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS
Sec. 3101. Extension for community health centers, National Health
Service Corps, and teaching health centers that operate GME
programs.
Sec. 3102. Extension of special diabetes programs.
Sec. 3103. National health security extensions.
TITLE II--MEDICARE
Sec. 3201. Extension of increased inpatient hospital payment adjustment
for certain low-volume hospitals.
Sec. 3202. Extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program.
Sec. 3203. Extension of add-on payments for ambulance services.
Sec. 3204. Extension of funding for quality measure endorsement, input,
and selection.
Sec. 3205. Extension of funding outreach and assistance for low-income
programs.
Sec. 3206. Extension of the work geographic index floor.
Sec. 3207. Extension of certain telehealth flexibilities.
Sec. 3208. Extending acute hospital care at home waiver authorities.
Sec. 3209. Extension of temporary inclusion of authorized oral antiviral
drugs as covered part D drugs.
Sec. 3210. Medicare improvement fund.
TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES
Sec. 3301. Sexual risk avoidance education extension.
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Sec. 3302. Personal responsibility education extension.
Sec. 3303. Extension of funding for family-to-family health information
centers.
TITLE IV--MEDICAID
Sec. 3401. Eliminating certain disproportionate share hospital payment
cuts.
TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS
SEC. 3101. <<NOTE: Time periods.>> EXTENSION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH
CENTERS, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS,
AND TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS THAT OPERATE
GME PROGRAMS.
(a) Extension for Community Health Centers.--Section 10503(b)(1) of
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(1))
is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``, $4,000,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and all that follows
through ``and ending on December 31, 2024; and'' and inserting a
semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(G) $4,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019
through 2023;
``(H) $526,027,397 for the period beginning on
October 1, 2023, and ending on November 17, 2023,
$690,410,959 for the period beginning on November 18,
2023, and ending on January 19, 2024, $536,986,301 for
the period beginning on January 20, 2024, and ending on
March 8, 2024, and $3,592,328,767 for the period
beginning on October 1, 2023, and ending on December 31,
2024; and
``(I) $1,050,410,959 for the period beginning on
January 1, 2025, and ending on March 31, 2025.''.
(b) Extension for the National Health Service Corps.--Section
10503(b)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C.
254b-2(b)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(J) $85,068,493 for the period beginning on
January 1, 2025, and ending on March 31, 2025.''.
(c) Teaching Health Centers That Operate Graduate Medical Education
Programs.--Section 340H(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 256h(g)(1)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``not to exceed $230,000,000'' and all that
follows through ``and ending on December 31, 2024,''; and
(2) by striking the period at the end and inserting the
following: ``, not to exceed--
``(A) $230,000,000, for the period of fiscal years
2011 through 2015;
``(B) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 and
2017;
``(C) $126,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2018
through 2023;
``(D) $16,635,616 for the period beginning on
October 1, 2023, and ending on November 17, 2023,
$21,834,247 for the period beginning on November 18,
2023, and ending on January 19, 2024, $16,982,192 for
the period beginning on January 20, 2024, and ending on
March 8, 2024, and
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$164,136,986 for the period beginning on October 1,
2023, and ending on December 31, 2024; and
``(E) $43,150,685 for the period beginning on
January 1, 2025, and ending on March 31, 2025.''.
(d) Application of Provisions.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the
amendments made by this section shall be subject to the requirements
contained in Public Law 117-328 for funds for programs authorized under
sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
254b et seq.).
(e) Conforming Amendments.--Section 3014(h) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``under subparagraphs (E)
and (F) of section 10503(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(1))'' and inserting
``under section 10503(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(1)) for fiscal year
2015 and each subsequent fiscal year (or period thereof)''; and
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and section 101(d) of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024'' and inserting
``section 101(d) of division G of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2024, and section 3101(d) of the Health
Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2025''.
SEC. 3102. <<NOTE: Time period.>> EXTENSION OF SPECIAL DIABETES
PROGRAMS.
(a) Extension of Special Diabetes Programs for Type I Diabetes.--
Section 330B(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-
2(b)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(F) $39,261,745 for the period beginning on
January 1, 2025, and ending on March 31, 2025, to remain
available until expended.''.
(b) Extending Funding for Special Diabetes Programs for Indians.--
Section 330C(c)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-
3(c)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(F) $39,261,745 for the period beginning on
January 1, 2025, and ending on March 31, 2025, to remain
available until expended.''.
SEC. 3103. NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY EXTENSIONS.
(a) Section 319(e)(8) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
247d(e)(8)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''.
(b) Section 319L(e)(1)(D) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 247d-7e(e)(1)(D)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
(c) Section 319L-1(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
247d-7f(b)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''.
(d)(1) Section 2811A(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
300hh-10b(g)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''.
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(2) Section 2811B(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
300hh-10c(g)(1)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
(3) Section 2811C(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
300hh-10d(g)(1)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
(e) Section 2812(c)(4)(B) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 300hh-11(c)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
TITLE II--MEDICARE
SEC. 3201. EXTENSION OF INCREASED INPATIENT HOSPITAL PAYMENT
ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN LOW-VOLUME
HOSPITALS.
(a) In General.----Section 1886(d)(12) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(12)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (B), in the matter preceding clause (i),
by striking ``January 1, 2025'' and inserting ``April 1, 2025'';
(2) in subparagraph (C)(i)--
(A) in the matter preceding subclause (I), by
striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting ``March 31,
2025'';
(B) in subclause (III), by striking ``December 31,
2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025''; and
(C) in subclause (IV), by striking ``January 1,
2025'' and inserting ``April 1, 2025''; and
(3) in subparagraph (D)--
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking
``December 31, 2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025'';
and
(B) in clause (ii), by striking ``December 31,
2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
(b) <<NOTE: 42 USC 1395ww note.>> Implementation.--Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
may implement the amendments made by this section by program instruction
or otherwise.
SEC. 3202. EXTENSION OF THE MEDICARE-DEPENDENT HOSPITAL (MDH)
PROGRAM.
(a) In General.----Section 1886(d)(5)(G) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(G)) is amended--
(1) in clause (i), by striking ``January 1, 2025'' and
inserting ``April 1, 2025''; and
(2) in clause (ii)(II), by striking ``January 1, 2025'' and
inserting ``April 1, 2025''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) In general.--Section 1886(b)(3)(D) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(b)(3)(D)) is amended--
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking
``January 1, 2025'' and inserting ``April 1, 2025''; and
(B) in clause (iv), by striking ``December 31,
2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
(2) Permitting hospitals to decline reclassification.--
Section 13501(e)(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1993 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note) is amended by striking ``December
31, 2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
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SEC. 3203. EXTENSION OF ADD-ON PAYMENTS FOR AMBULANCE SERVICES.
Section 1834(l) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(l)) is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (12)(A), by striking ``January 1, 2025''
and inserting ``April 1, 2025''; and
(2) in paragraph (13), by striking ``January 1, 2025'' each
place it appears and inserting ``April 1, 2025'' in each such
place.
SEC. 3204. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR QUALITY MEASURE ENDORSEMENT,
INPUT, AND SELECTION.
Section 1890(d)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395aaa(d)(2)) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence--
(A) by striking ``$9,000,000'' and inserting
``$11,030,000''; and
(B) by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''; and
(2) in the third sentence, by striking ``December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
SEC. 3205. EXTENSION OF FUNDING OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-
INCOME PROGRAMS.
(a) State Health Insurance Assistance Programs.--Subsection
(a)(1)(B)(xiv) of section 119 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients
and Providers Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 1395b-3 note) is amended by
striking ``December 31, 2024, $18,750,000'' and inserting ``March 31,
2025, $22,500,000''.
(b) Area Agencies on Aging.--Subsection (b)(1)(B)(xiv) of such
section 119 is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024, $18,750,000''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025, $22,500,000''.
(c) Aging and Disability Resource Centers.--Subsection
(c)(1)(B)(xiv) of such section 119 is amended by striking ``December 31,
2024, $6,250,000'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025, $8,500,000''.
(d) Coordination of Efforts to Inform Older Americans About Benefits
Available Under Federal and State Programs.--Subsection (d)(2)(xiv) of
such section 119 is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024,
$18,750,000'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025, $22,500,000''.
SEC. 3206. EXTENSION OF THE WORK GEOGRAPHIC INDEX FLOOR.
Section 1848(e)(1)(E) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
4(e)(1)(E)) is amended by striking ``January 1, 2025'' and inserting
``April 1, 2025''.
SEC. 3207. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN TELEHEALTH FLEXIBILITIES.
(a) Removing Geographic Requirements and Expanding Originating Sites
for Telehealth Services.--Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2)(B)(iii), by striking ``ending December
31, 2024'' and inserting ``ending March 31, 2025''; and
(2) in paragraph (4)(C)(iii), by striking ``ending on
December 31, 2024'' and inserting ``ending on March 31, 2025''.
(b) Expanding Practitioners Eligible to Furnish Telehealth
Services.--Section 1834(m)(4)(E) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395m(m)(4)(E)) is amended by striking ``ending on December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``ending on March 31, 2025''.
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(c) Extending Telehealth Services for Federally Qualified Health
Centers and Rural Health Clinics.--Section 1834(m)(8)(A) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(8)(A)) is amended by striking ``ending
on December 31, 2024'' and inserting ``ending on March 31, 2025''.
(d) Delaying the In-person Requirements Under Medicare for Mental
Health Services Furnished Through Telehealth and Telecommunications
Technology.--
(1) Delay in requirements for mental health services
furnished through telehealth.--Section 1834(m)(7)(B)(i) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(7)(B)(i)) is amended, in
the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking ``on or after''
and all that follows through ``described in section
1135(g)(1)(B))'' and inserting ``on or after April 1, 2025''.
(2) Mental health visits furnished by rural health
clinics.--Section 1834(y)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395m(y)(2)) is amended by striking ``January 1, 2025''
and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting
``April 1, 2025.''.
(3) Mental health visits furnished by federally qualified
health centers.--Section 1834(o)(4)(B) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(o)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ``January
1, 2025'' and all that follows through the period at the end and
inserting ``April 1, 2025.''.
(e) Allowing for the Furnishing of Audio-only Telehealth Services.--
Section 1834(m)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(9)) is
amended by striking ``ending on December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``ending on March 31, 2025''.
(f) Extending Use of Telehealth to Conduct Face-to-face Encounter
Prior to Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care.--Section
1814(a)(7)(D)(i)(II) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395f(a)(7)(D)(i)(II)) is amended by striking ``ending on December 31,
2024'' and inserting ``ending on March 31, 2025''.
(g) <<NOTE: 42 USC 1395m note.>> Program Instruction Authority.--The
Secretary of Health and Human Services may implement the amendments made
by this section through program instruction or otherwise.
SEC. 3208. EXTENDING ACUTE HOSPITAL CARE AT HOME WAIVER
AUTHORITIES.
Section 1866G(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395cc-
7(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''.
SEC. 3209. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY INCLUSION OF AUTHORIZED ORAL
ANTIVIRAL DRUGS AS COVERED PART D DRUGS.
Section 1860D-2(e)(1)(C) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395w-102(e)(1)(C)) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
SEC. 3210. MEDICARE IMPROVEMENT FUND.
Section 1898(b)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395iii(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``$3,197,000,000'' and inserting
``$1,251,000,000''.
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TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES
SEC. 3301. SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDUCATION EXTENSION.
Section 510 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 710) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025''; and
(2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``December 31, 2024''
and inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
SEC. 3302. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY EDUCATION EXTENSION.
Section 513 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 713) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)--
(A) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding
clause (i), by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 31, 2025''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``December
31, 2024'' and inserting ``March 31, 2025''; and
(2) in subsection (f), by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 31, 2025''.
SEC. 3303. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR FAMILY-TO-FAMILY HEALTH
INFORMATION CENTERS.
Section 501(c)(1)(A)(viii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
701(c)(1)(A)(viii)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``$1,500,000'' and inserting ``$3,000,000'';
and
(2) by striking ``January 1, 2025'' and inserting ``April 1,
2025''.
TITLE IV--MEDICAID
SEC. 3401. ELIMINATING CERTAIN DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL
PAYMENT CUTS.
Section 1923(f)(7)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-
4(f)(7)(A)) is amended--
(1) in clause (i), by striking ``January 1'' and inserting
``April 1''; and
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ``January 1'' and inserting
``April 1''.
DIVISION D--EXTENSION OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
SEC. 4101. EXTENSION OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS.
(a) <<NOTE: 7 USC 9001 note.>> Extension.--
(1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this
section and the amendments made by this section, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the authorities (including any
limitations on such authorities) provided by each provision of
the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334; 132
Stat. 4490) and each provision of law amended by that Act (and
for mandatory programs at such funding levels) as in effect
(including pursuant to section 102 of division B of
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the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act,
2024 (Public Law 118-22)) on September 30, 2024, shall continue
and be carried out until the date specified in paragraph (2).
(2) Date specified.--With respect to an authority described
in paragraph (1), the date specified in this paragraph is the
later of--
(A) September 30, 2025;
(B) the date specified with respect to such
authority in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-334; 132 Stat. 4490) or a provision of
law amended by that Act (Public Law 115-334; 132 Stat.
4490); or
(C) the date in effect with respect to such
authority pursuant to section 102 of division B of the
Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions
Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-22)).
(b) Discretionary Programs.--Programs carried out using the
authorities described in subsection (a)(1) that are funded by
discretionary appropriations (as defined in section 250(c) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C.
900(c))) shall be subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Commodity Programs.--
(1) In general.--The provisions of law applicable to a
covered commodity (as defined in section 1111 of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9011)), a loan commodity (as
defined in section 1201 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 9031)), sugarcane,
or sugar beets for the 2024 crop year pursuant to title I of
that Act (7 U.S.C. 9011 et seq.), each amendment made by
subtitle C of title I of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-334; 132 Stat. 4511), and section 102 of
division B of the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other
Extensions Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-22) shall be applicable to
the 2025 crop year for that covered commodity, loan commodity,
sugarcane, or sugar beets.
(2) Extra long staple cotton.--Section 1208(a) of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9038 (a)) is amended by
striking ``2024'' and inserting ``2026''.
(3) Extension of payment amount.--Section 1116(d) of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9016(d)) is amended, in the
matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``2024'' and
inserting ``2025''.
(4) Dairy.--
(A) Dairy margin coverage.--
(i) Duration.--Section 1409 of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9059) is
amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and
inserting ``December 31, 2025''.
(ii) <<NOTE: Applicability. 7 USC 9057
note.>> Availability of premium discount.--With
respect to coverage for calendar year 2025,
section 1407(g) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7
U.S.C. 9057(g)) shall only apply to a
participating dairy operation with respect to
which the premium was reduced in accordance with
that section (as applied to such participating
dairy operation pursuant to section
102(c)(2)(B)(ii) of division B of the Further
Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions
Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-22)) for calendar year
2024.
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(B) Dairy forward pricing program.--Section
1502(e)(2) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of
2008 (7 U.S.C. 8772(e)(2)) is amended by striking
``2027'' and inserting ``2028''.
(5) <<NOTE: 7 USC 9092 note.>> Suspension of permanent
price support authorities.--The provisions of law specified in--
(A) subsections (a) and (b) of section 1602 of the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9092)--
(i) shall not be applicable to the 2025 crops
of covered commodities (as defined in section 1111
of that Act (7 U.S.C. 9011)), cotton, and sugar;
and
(ii) shall not be applicable to milk through
December 31, 2025; and
(B) section 1602(c) of that Act (7 U.S.C. 9092(c))
shall not be applicable to the crops of wheat planted
for harvest in calendar year 2025.
(d) Other Programs.--
(1) Trade.--Section 302(h)(2) of the Bill Emerson
Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f-1(h)(2)) is amended by
striking ``September 30, 2024'' and inserting ``September 30,
2025''.
(2) Grazinglands research laboratory.--Section 7502 of the
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246;
122 Stat. 2019; 132 Stat. 4817) is amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 7502. <<NOTE: Oklahoma. Time period.>> GRAZINGLANDS
RESEARCH LABORATORY.
``Except as otherwise specifically authorized by law and
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal land and
facilities at El Reno, Oklahoma, administered by the Secretary (as of
the date of enactment of this Act) as the Grazinglands Research
Laboratory, shall not at any time, in whole or in part, be declared to
be excess or surplus Federal property under chapter 5 of subtitle I of
title 40, United States Code, or otherwise be conveyed or transferred in
whole or in part, for the period beginning on the date of the enactment
of this Act and ending on September 30, 2025.''.
(3) Energy.--Section 9010(b) of the Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8110(b)) is amended in
paragraphs (1)(A) and (2)(A) by striking ``2024'' each place it
appears and inserting ``2025''.
(e) <<NOTE: 7 USC 9001 note.>> Exceptions.--
(1) Commodities.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect
to mandatory funding under the following provisions of law:
(A) Section 1614(c)(4) of the Agricultural Act of
2014 (7 U.S.C. 9097(c)(4)).
(B) Section 12314(h) of the Agricultural Act of 2014
(7 U.S.C. 2101 note; Public Law 113-79).
(C) Section 12315(f) of the Agricultural Act of 2014
(7 U.S.C. 7101 note; Public Law 113-79).
(D) Section 12316(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2014
(7 U.S.C. 7101 note; Public Law 113-79).
(2) Conservation.--
(A) Mandatory funding.--Subsection (a) does not
apply with respect to mandatory funding under the
following provisions of law for fiscal years 2024 and
2025:
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(i) Section 1240O(b)(3) of the Food Security
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-2(b)(3)).
(ii) Section 1240R(f)(1) of the Food Security
Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-5(f)(1)).
(iii) Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section
1241(a)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16
U.S.C. 3841(a)(1)).
(iv) Section 2408(g)(1) of the Agriculture
Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 8351 note).
(B) Limitations.--Subsection (a) does not apply with
respect to limitations under the following provisions of
law:
(i) Section 1240G of the Food Security Act of
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa-7).
(ii) Section 1240L(f) of the Food Security Act
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa-24(f)).
(3) Nutrition.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect
to the mandatory funding in section 203D(d)(5) of the Emergency
Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7507(d)(5)).
(4) Rural development.--Subsection (a) does not apply with
respect to the mandatory funding in section 313B(e)(2) of the
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c-2(e)(2)).
(5) Research.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to
mandatory funding under the following provisions of law:
(A) Section 1446(b)(1) of the National Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7
U.S.C. 3222a(b)(1)).
(B) Section 1672E(d)(1) of the Food, Agriculture,
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C.
5925g(d)(1)).
(C) Section 7601(g)(1)(A) of the Agricultural Act of
2014 (7 U.S.C. 5939(g)(1)(A)).
(6) Energy.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to
mandatory funding under the following provisions of law:
(A) Section 9002(k)(1) of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8102(k)(1)).
(B) Section 9003(g)(1)(A) of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8103(g)(1)(A)).
(C) Section 9005(g)(1) of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8105(g)(1)).
(7) Horticulture.--Subsection (a) does not apply with
respect to mandatory funding under the following provisions of
law:
(A) Section 7407(d)(1) of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5925c(d)(1)).
(B) Section 2123(c)(4) of the Organic Foods
Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6522(c)(4)).
(C) Section 10606(d)(1)(C) of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 6523(d)(1)(C)).
(D) Section 10109(c)(1) of the Agriculture
Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334).
(8) Miscellaneous.--Subsection (a) does not apply with
respect to mandatory funding under the following provisions of
law:
(A) Section 209(c) of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1627a(c)).
(B) Section 12605(d) of the Agriculture Improvement
Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 7632 note).
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(f) Reports.--
(1) <<NOTE: Continuation.>> In general.--Subject to
paragraph (2), any requirement under a provision of law
described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) to submit a report
on a recurring basis, and the final report under which was
required to be submitted during fiscal year 2024, shall
continue, and the requirement shall be carried out, on the same
recurring basis, until the later of the dates specified in
paragraph (2) of that subsection.
(2) <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Appropriations required.--If
discretionary appropriations (as defined in section 250(c) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2
U.S.C. 900(c))) are required to carry out a reporting
requirement described in paragraph (1), the application of that
paragraph to that reporting requirement shall be subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(g) <<NOTE: Applicability.>> Effective Date.--This section and the
amendments made by this section shall be applied and administered as if
this section and those amendments had been enacted on September 30,
2024.
DIVISION E--OTHER MATTERS
SEC. 5101. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION WHISTLEBLOWER
PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Section 1(b) of Public Law 117-25 (135 Stat. 297;
136 Stat. 2133; 136 Stat. 5984) <<NOTE: 136 Stat. 2309.>> is amended,
in paragraphs (3) and (4), by striking ``October 1, 2024'' each place it
appears and inserting ``March 14, 2025''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall
take effect as if enacted on September 30, 2024.
SEC. 5102. PROTECTION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES AND ASSETS FROM
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT.
Section 210G(i) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
124n(i)) is amended by striking ``December 20, 2024'' and inserting
``March 14, 2025''.
SEC. 5103. ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.
Section 3014 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
``December 23, 2024'' and inserting ``March 14, 2025''.
SEC. 5104. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY PROTECTION SYSTEM AUTHORIZATION.
Section 227(a) of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(6 U.S.C. 1525(a)) is amended by striking ``December 20, 2024'' and
inserting ``March 14, 2025''.
SEC. 5105. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY ORDER FOR FENTANYL-RELATED
SUBSTANCES. <<NOTE: Effective date.>>
Effective
date.
Effective as if included in the enactment of the Temporary
Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl
Analogues Act (Public Law 116-114), section 2 of such
[[Page 138 STAT. 1772]]
Act <<NOTE: 134 Stat. 103; 135 Stat. 264, 380; 136 Stat. 17, 33, 801,
5231.>> is amended by striking ``December 31, 2024'' and inserting
``March 31, 2025''.
Approved December 21, 2024.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 10545:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
Dec. 20, considered and passed House and Senate.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mr. Cole moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7395-7413)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 10545.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 366 - 34, 1 Present (Roll no. 517).
Roll Call #517 (House)On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 366 - 34, 1 Present (Roll no. 517). (text: CR H7395-7409)
Roll Call #517 (House)Enacted as Public Law 118-158
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate, under the order of 12/20/2024, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 85 - 11. Record Vote Number: 339.
Roll Call #339 (Senate)Passed Senate, under the order of 12/20/2024, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 85 - 11. Record Vote Number: 339. (consideration: CR S7306-7307)
Roll Call #339 (Senate)Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 118-158.
Became Public Law No: 118-158.