To provide that none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for hurricane relief and recovery contracts exceeding $500,000 that are awarded using procedures other than competitive procedures.

SA 3810. Mr. OBAMA (for himself, Mr. Coburn, and Mr. Kennedy)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R.
4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

On page 253, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:

ACCOUNTABILITY IN HURRICANE RECOVERY CONTRACTING

Sec. 7032. None of the funds appropriated by this Act that
are made available for relief and recovery efforts related to
Hurricane Katrina and the other hurricanes of the 2005 season
may be used by an executive agency to enter into any Federal
contract exceeding $500,000 through the use of procedures
other than competitive procedures as required by the Federal
Acquisition Regulation and, as applicable, section 303(a) of
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949
(41 U.S.C. 253(a)) or section 2304(a) of title 10, United
States Code.
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