An amendment to eliminate the rescission of $125 million in workers' compensation and worker-retraining funds intended to aid 9/11 first responders. The amendment designates this $125 million as emergency funding.

1. Rewrites page 10, lines 3–7

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   Removes page 10, lines 3–7 of the printed bill. See that page

   Inserted: workers compensation programs Of the amounts made available under this heading in chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002 (Public Law 107-117), $50,000,000 shall be available for payment to the New York State Uninsured Employers Fund for reimbursement of claims related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and for reimbursement of claims related to the first response emergency services personnel who were injured, were disabled, or died due to such terrorist attacks, and $75,000,000 shall be made available upon enactment of this Act for purposes related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with priority given to administer baseline and follow-up screening and clinical examinations and long-term health monitoring, analysis, and treatment for emergency services personnel and rescue and recovery personnel: Provided, That such amounts are each designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.

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   Page 10, strike lines 3 through 7, and insert the following:

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