[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4143 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4143

  To provide for relief payments to private and public hospitals that 
 temporarily ceased to operate because of a mandatory evacuation order 
   issued in anticipation of Hurricane Rita, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2005

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 provide for relief payments to private and public hospitals that 
 temporarily ceased to operate because of a mandatory evacuation order 
   issued in anticipation of Hurricane Rita, 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 ``Help Hospitals Recover Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. RELIEF PAYMENTS TO HOSPITALS AFFECTED BY HURRICANE RITA.

    (a) Payments.--The Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency shall make a payment in the amount described in subsection (b) 
to each private or public hospital that temporarily ceased to operate 
because of a mandatory evacuation order issued in anticipation of 
Hurricane Rita.
    (b) Amount.--The amount of a payment to a hospital under subsection 
(a) shall be equal to the amount of revenue lost by the hospital as a 
result of the cessation of operations described in such subsection.

SEC. 3. FUNDING.

    (a) Appropriation.--
            (1) Identification of aggregate amount.--Not later than 30 
        days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
        of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine and 
        publish in the Federal Register the aggregate amount of revenue 
        lost by private and public hospitals as a result of the 
        cessation of operations described in section 2(a).
            (2) Appropriation.--There is hereby appropriated, out of 
        any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
        Federal Emergency Management Agency for fiscal year 2006, an 
        amount equal to the aggregate amount determined by the Director 
        of the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to paragraph 
        (1), which amount shall be used for the purpose of carrying out 
        section 2.
            (3) Effective date.--Paragraph (2) shall take effect on the 
        date of the determination by the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget pursuant to paragraph (1).
    (b) Rescission of Other Appropriations.--
            (1) Rescissions.--Each of the amounts appropriated in a 
        regular appropriations Act for fiscal year 2006 for the 
        activities described in paragraph (2) is hereby rescinded by an 
        equal percentage and in the amount necessary to ensure that the 
        aggregate amount of rescissions under this paragraph is equal 
        to the amount of the appropriation under subsection (a)(2).
            (2) Activities.--The activities described in this paragraph 
        are the following:
                    (A) Construction of new embassies.
                    (B) Support for the international financial 
                institutions.
                    (C) International population planning assistance.
                    (D) Support for the United Nation's humanitarian 
                mission.
                    (E) Support for the National Endowment for 
                Democracy.
                    (F) The activities of the committees of the House 
                of Representatives.
            (3) Definition of international financial institutions.--In 
        paragraph (2)(B), the term ``international financial 
        institutions'' means the International Bank for Reconstruction 
        and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian 
        Development Bank, the Asian Development Fund, the African 
        Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the 
        International Monetary Fund, the North American Development 
        Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
            (4) Effective date.--Paragraph (1) shall take effect 
        immediately after the enactment of all of the regular 
        appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2006 appropriating amounts 
        described in such paragraph.
            (5) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the effective 
        date of paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Management 
        and Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
        the House of Representatives and the Senate a report specifying 
        the account and amount of each rescission under such paragraph.
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