Great Lakes and National Weather Service Funding Protection Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2856 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2856

To limit the impoundment, transfer, or reprogramming of certain Federal 
     funds made available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
                Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

  Mr. Kennedy of New York (for himself, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Thanedar, Mrs. 
     Dingell, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Norton, Ms. 
  Schakowsky, Ms. Brown, and Mr. Schneider) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit the impoundment, transfer, or reprogramming of certain Federal 
     funds made available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
                Administration, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Great Lakes and National Weather 
Service Funding Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON DEFERRAL OR TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FEDERAL FUNDS 
              MADE AVAILABLE TO NOAA.

    (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
including the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, discretionary 
appropriations (including amounts made available by the Full-Year 
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4)) 
made available for the National Weather Service and the Great Lakes 
Region may not be impounded, transferred, or reprogrammed unless 
specific statutory authority is enacted into law after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, with express reference to this Act, permitting 
such an impoundment, transfer, or reprogramming.
    (b) Certification of Compliance.--Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
Administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall 
certify that the Administrator is in compliance with the requirements 
of this Act to the following committees:
            (1) The Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives.
            (2) The Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
        Representatives.
            (3) The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the 
        House of Representatives.
            (4) The Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
            (5) The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
        of the Senate.
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