S.Amdt. 2389

SA 2389. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 3288, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. HURRICANE ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use--

(1) not more than $80,000,000 of funds reserved by the Department of Homeland Security under an Inter-Agency Agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for victims of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav of 2008 to provide assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and related fee provisions, to eligible families receiving assistance under the DHAP-Ike program, except that such assistance shall not be made available to other families upon turnover; and

(2) not more than an additional $10,000,000 of funds reserved by the Department of Homeland Security under the Inter-Agency Agreement described in paragraph (1) to provide assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and related fee provisions, to families residing in Federal Emergency Management Agency transitional housing units because of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav of 2008.