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“AMENDMENTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H5250 on June 10, 2014.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
AMENDMENTS
Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:
H.R. 4745
Offered By: Mr. Conyers
Amendment No. 33: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay any FHA mortgage insurance claim in connection with the sale of any mortgage insured by the FHA in contravention of--
(1) section 230(a) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715u(a)); or
(2) section 203.500, 203.501, 203.600, 203.602, 203.604, 203.605, 203.606, or 203.365(c) of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations.
H.R. 4745
Offered By: Mr. Richmond
Amendment No. 34: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to recover Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery funds from any eligible homeowner recipient impacted by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita who used such funds to restore the homeowner's home to a habitable state and has made an honest attempt to utilize the funds for their intended purpose and comply with the covenants of the grant agreement.
H.R. 4745
Offered By: Mr. Conyers
Amendment No. 35: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay any FHA mortgage insurance claim or in connection with the sale of any mortgage insured by the FHA before compliance with existing. FHA loss mitigation requirements, documentation of such compliance by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and provision of such documentation to the mortgagor.
H.R. 4745
Offered By: Mr. Conyers
Amendment No. 36: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay any FHA mortgage insurance claim or in connection with the sale of any mortgage insured by the FHA before compliance with existing FHA loss mitigation requirements, documentation of such compliance by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and provision of such documentation to the mortgagor.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Huelskamp
Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled ``Importation of Beef From a Region in Brazil'' published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 23, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 77370 et seq.)
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mrs. Hartzler
Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement section 12106 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-79; 128 Stat. 980), section 11016(b) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2130), or the amendments made by such sections.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mrs. Blackburn
Amendment No. 3: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) Each amount made available by this Act is hereby reduced by 1 percent.
(b) The reduction in subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to the following mandatory accounts:
(1) ``Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund''.
(2) ``Commodity Credit Corporation Fund--Reimbursement for Net Realized Losses''.
(3) ``Child Nutrition Programs''.
(4) ``Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program''.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer
Amendment No. 4: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department of Agriculture to provide any benefit described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (E) of subsection (b)(2) of section 1001D of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a) to a person or legal entity if the average adjusted gross income
(as defined in subsection (a) of such section) of such person or legal entity exceeds $250,000.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Bridenstine
Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule entitled
``Milk in the Northeast and Other Marketing Areas; Order Amending the Orders'' published by the Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on April 23, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 21157 et seq.).
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Connoly
Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be provided to a Member of Congress or the spouse of a Member of Congress through any agriculture program administered by the Secretary of Agriculture (or by any agency of the Department of Agriculture) that provides financial support
(including incentives, payments, loans, and contracts) to persons based on the business of agriculture in which such persons are engaged.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Royce
Amendment No. 7: Page 16, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $15,500,000)''.
Page 48, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert
``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
H.R. 4800
Offered By: Mr. Gallego
Amendment No. 8: Page 3, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $3,869,000)''.
Page 82, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert
``(increased by $3,869,000)''.
