S.Amdt. 3904

SA 3904. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk,
Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations
for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in Division B, insert the
following:

reprogramming of funds

Sec. ___.  (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, not to exceed $1,100,000,000 of the
unobligated balances of amounts made available to the
Department of State, the United States Agency for
International Development, and the Department of Health and
Human Services for fiscal year 2015, or any fiscal year
before fiscal year 2015, that remain available for obligation
may be transferred or reprogrammed by the head of the
applicable agency for use to prevent, prepare for, or respond
to the Zika virus.
(b) Notification and Certification Requirements.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 15 days prior to the
transfer or reprogramming of funds made available pursuant to
subsection (a) or section 7058(c) of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113)--
(A) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
shall certify to the appropriate Congressional committees
that the net effect of all transfers and reprogramming made
pursuant to subsection (a) shall not result in an increase in
outlays over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2021;
and
(B) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in
coordination with the Secretary of State and the
Administrator of the United States Agency for International
Development, shall submit to the appropriate Congressional
committees a multi-year spending plan that specifies the
proposed uses of such funds.
(2) Spending plan.--The spending plan submitted under
paragraph (1)(B) shall include--
(A) the objectives, indicators to measure progress, and a
timeline to implement a successful strategy to respond to the
Zika virus;
(B) the amounts intended to be transferred or reprogrammed
pursuant to this Act, that are made available from prior Acts
making appropriations for--
(i) the Department of State, foreign operations, and
related programs to support such strategy; and
(ii) the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and related agencies;
(C) a description of how any foreign assistance planned to
be transferred or reprogrammed pursuant to subsection (a)
will differ from, complement, and leverage funds allocated
by--
(i) each government for countries in which the United
States will use funds authorized by this Act; and
(ii) other governmental, nongovernmental, and
intergovernmental donors; and
(D) a description of--

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(i) the resources each government described in subparagraph
(C)(i) possess to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the
Zika virus; and
(ii) the political will of each government described in
subparagraph (C)(i) to use the resources described in clause
(i).
(c) Follow up Report.--Not later than November 30, 2017,
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination
with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development, shall
submit to the appropriate Congressional committees, a report
that contains a full accounting, on a program level, of funds
transferred or reprogrammed pursuant to subsection (a). Such
report shall, to the greatest extent practicable, contain a
comparison of the full accounting contained in the report to
the original spending plan described in subsection (b)(2).
(d) Limitation on Authority.--The authority provided in the
section to reprogram and expend funds shall terminate on
September 30, 2017.
(e) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate
Congressional committees'' means the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform of the House of Representatives.
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