United States HR 5687: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Disaster Tax Relief Act, 2020

Bill Text

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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 5687
Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 28, 2020
Mrs. LOWEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the
Budget, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SHORT TITLE 3
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency 4
Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief and 5
Puerto Rico Disaster Tax Relief Act, 2020’’. 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS 7
SEC. 2. The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 8
DIVISION A—EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR
DISASTER RELIEF ACT, 2020
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DIVISION B—PUERTO RICO DISASTER TAX RELIEF ACT OF 2020
DIVISION C—BUDGETARY EFFECTS
REFERENCES 1
SEC. 3. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any 2
reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any division of this 3
Act shall be treated as referring only to the provisions of 4
that division. 5
DIVISION A—EMERGENCY SUPPLE-6
MENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DIS-7
ASTER RELIEF ACT, 2020 8
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 9
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 10
fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other pur-11
poses, namely: 12
TITLE I 13
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 14
ENERGY PROGRAMS 15
CYBERSECURITY, ENERGY SECURITY, AND EMERGENCY 16
RESPONSE 17
For an additional amount for ‘‘Cybersecurity, Energy 18
Security, and Emergency Response’’, $6,750,000, to re-19
main available until expended, for necessary expenses re-20
lated to providing technical assistance related to natural 21
disasters in U.S. territories, including technical assistance 22
related to electric grids: Provided, That such amount is 23
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-24
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quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-1
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 2
ELECTRICITY 3
For an additional amount for ‘‘Electricity’’, 4
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended, for nec-5
essary expenses related to providing technical assistance 6
related to natural disasters in U.S. territories, including 7
technical assistance related to electric grids: Provided, 8
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 9
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 10
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 11
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 12
TITLE II 13
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 14
HURRICANE EDUCATION RECOVERY 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
For an additional amount for ‘‘Hurricane Education 17
Recovery’’ for necessary expenses related to the con-18
sequences of earthquakes occurring in calendar years 19
2019 and 2020 as of the date of enactment of this Act 20
in those areas for which a major disaster or emergency 21
has been declared under section 401 or 501 of the Robert 22
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 23
(42 U.S.C. 5170 and 5191) (referred to under this head-24
ing as ‘‘covered disaster or emergency’’), $100,000,000, 25
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to remain available through September 30, 2022, for as-1
sisting in meeting the educational needs of individuals af-2
fected by a covered disaster or emergency: Provided, That 3
such assistance shall be provided through any of the pro-4
grams authorized under this heading in title VIII of sub-5
division 1 of division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 6
2018 (Public Law 115–123; 132 Stat. 95), as amended 7
by section 201 of this Act, as determined by the Secretary 8
of Education, and subject to the terms and conditions that 9
applied to those programs, except that references to dates 10
and school years in such Act shall be deemed to be the 11
corresponding dates and school years for the covered dis-12
aster or emergency: Provided further, That the Secretary 13
of Education may determine the amounts to be used for 14
each such program and shall notify the Committees on Ap-15
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-16
ate of these amounts not later than 7 days prior to obliga-17
tion: Provided further, That $1,000,000 of