[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 79 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3558]
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  SA 2023. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
Padilla, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Warnock, and Mr. Ossoff) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1911 
proposed by Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Mr. Cruz, Ms. Duckworth, and Mr. 
Moran) to the bill H.R. 3935, to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other 
civil aviation programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end, add the following:

            DIVISION B--SUPPLEMENTAL DISASTER APPROPRIATIONS

        The following sums are hereby are appropriated, out of any 
     money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other 
     purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development

                       community development fund

       For an additional amount for ``Community Development 
     Fund'', $3,500,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
     for the same purposes and under the same terms and conditions 
     as funds appropriated under such heading in title VIII of the 
     Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 
     (division B of Public Law 117-43; 135 Stat. 369), except that 
     such amounts shall be for major disasters that occurred in 
     2023 or 2024 and the fourth, 20th, and 21st provisos under 
     such heading in such Act shall not apply:  Provided, That of 
     the amounts made available under this heading in this Act, 
     $5,000,000 shall be made available for capacity building and 
     technical assistance, including assistance on contracting and 
     procurement processes, to support States, units of general 
     local government, or Indian tribes, and subrecipients that 
     receive allocations related to major disasters under this 
     heading in this Act and allocations for disaster recovery in 
     any prior or future Acts:  Provided further, That of the 
     amounts made available under this heading in this Act, 
     $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Department of Housing 
     and Urban Development--Program Office Salaries and Expenses--
     Community Planning and Development'' for necessary costs, 
     including information technology costs, of administering and 
     overseeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts made 
     available under the heading ``Community Development Fund'' in 
     this Act or any prior or future Act that makes amounts 
     available for purposes related to major disasters under such 
     heading:  Provided further, That of the amounts made 
     available under this heading in this Act, $3,000,000 shall be 
     transferred to ``Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development--Office of Inspector General'' for necessary 
     costs of overseeing and auditing funds amounts made available 
     under the heading ``Community Development Fund'' in this Act 
     or any prior or future Act that makes amounts available for 
     purposes related to major disasters under such heading:  
     Provided further, That amounts made available under this 
     heading in this Act may be used by a grantee to assist 
     utilities as part of a disaster-related eligible activity 
     under section 105(a) of the Housing and Community Development 
     Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)):  Provided further, That such 
     amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985.

                                TITLE II

                           BUDGETARY EFFECTS


                            budgetary effect

       Sec. 2001.  (a) Statutory PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary 
     effects of this division shall not be entered on either PAYGO 
     scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the 
     Statutory Pay As-You-Go Act of 2010.
       (b) Senate PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of this 
     division shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard 
     maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 
     (115th Congress).
       (c) Classification of Budgetary Effects.--Notwithstanding 
     Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the 
     joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference 
     accompanying Conference Report 105-217 and section 250(c)(7) 
     and (c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects of this division 
     shall be estimated for purposes of section 251 of such Act.
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