[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 77 (Monday, May 16, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2830-S2831]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3924. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in Division B, insert the 
     following:


                         reprogramming of funds

       Sec. ___.  (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, not to exceed $1,100,000,000 of the 
     unobligated balances of amounts made available to the 
     Department of State, the United States Agency for 
     International Development, and the Department of Health and 
     Human Services for fiscal year 2015, or any fiscal year 
     before fiscal year 2015, that remain available for obligation 
     may be transferred or reprogrammed by the head of the 
     applicable agency for use to prevent, prepare for, or respond 
     to the Zika virus.
       (b) Notification and Certification Requirements.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 15 days prior to the 
     transfer or reprogramming of funds made available pursuant to 
     subsection (a) or section 7058(c) of the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113)--
       (A) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
     shall certify to the appropriate Congressional committees 
     that the net effect of all transfers and reprogramming made 
     pursuant to subsection (a) shall not result in an increase in 
     outlays over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2021; 
     and
       (B) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of State and the 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development, shall submit to the appropriate Congressional 
     committees a multi-year spending plan that specifies the 
     proposed uses of such funds.
       (2) Spending plan.--The spending plan submitted under 
     paragraph (1)(B) shall include--
       (A) the objectives, indicators to measure progress, and a 
     timeline to implement a successful strategy to respond to the 
     Zika virus;
       (B) the amounts intended to be transferred or reprogrammed 
     pursuant to this Act, that are made available from prior Acts 
     making appropriations for--
       (i) the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
     related programs to support such strategy; and
       (ii) the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     Education, and related agencies;
       (C) a description of how any foreign assistance planned to 
     be transferred or reprogrammed pursuant to subsection (a) 
     will differ from, complement, and leverage funds allocated 
     by--
       (i) each government for countries in which the United 
     States will use funds authorized by this Act; and
       (ii) other governmental, nongovernmental, and 
     intergovernmental donors; and
       (D) a description of--
       (i) the resources each government described in subparagraph 
     (C)(i) possess to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the 
     Zika virus; and
       (ii) the political will of each government described in 
     subparagraph (C)(i) to use the resources described in clause 
     (i).
       (c) Follow up Report.--Not later than November 30, 2017, 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination 
     with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the 
     United States Agency for International Development, shall 
     submit to the appropriate Congressional committees, a report 
     that contains a full accounting, on a program level, of funds 
     transferred or reprogrammed pursuant to subsection (a). Such 
     report shall, to the greatest extent practicable, contain a 
     comparison of the full accounting contained in the report to 
     the original spending plan described in subsection (b)(2).

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       (d) Limitation on Authority.--The authority provided in the 
     section to reprogram and obligate funds shall terminate on 
     September 30, 2017.
       (e) Prohibition.--No transfers or reprogramming of funds 
     under this section shall be made from the funds designated by 
     Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
     Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(ii).
       (f) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
     Congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
     Appropriations and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
     Appropriations and the Committee on Oversight and Government 
     Reform of the House of Representatives.
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