[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 996. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Risch, 
and Mr. Manchin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Strike section 113 of division C and insert the following:


             payment in lieu of taxes, secure rural schools

       Sec. 113. (a) Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, 
     is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
     striking ``fiscal year 2019'' and inserting ``fiscal year 
     2020''.
        (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
     year 2019--
       (1) each eligible State, eligible county, and other 
     eligible unit of local government shall be entitled to 
     payment under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
     Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), subject 
     to paragraph (3);
       (2) $282,000,000 shall be made available to the Secretary 
     of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior for 
     obligation and expenditure in accordance with that Act, 
     subject to paragraph (3); and
       (3) for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), the full 
     funding amount for fiscal year 2019 shall be the full funding 
     amount for fiscal year 2017.
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