Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Services Bill
The
The bill totals
"The bill targets resources for important programs that will continue current growth, including providing small businesses - the backbone of our economy - with the loans they need to compete at home and abroad. It also makes important investments to address some of the many challenges facing our nation - providing funding to fight the crushing opioid epidemic and to protect against cyber-crime," Chairman
Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman
"Once again, this bill is a product of an open, inclusive, member-driven process. We brought appropriators and authorizers together. We consulted other committees. We fostered personal, member-to-member conversations to make sure priorities in the bill were vetted and supported across jurisdictions. The end result is a conservative bill that represents the majority views of the House," Graves said
"The bill brings the rogue, unaccountable
Bill Highlights:
The legislation includes provisions to preserve the safeguards, funding prohibitions, and oversight of taxpayer dollars at the
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic - The legislation contains
In addition to these funds, the bill provides an extra
The bill includes
Further, the bill includes
In addition, the legislation contains policy provisions and reporting requirements to improve transparency, accountability, and fairness and to stop overly burdensome regulation. For example, the bill:
* Prohibits the agency from requiring the disclosure of political contributions in
* Title IX contains numerous legislative financial reforms, the vast majority of which have passed the House in the 115th
Judiciary - Included in the bill is
In addition, the legislation:
* Maintains provisions prohibiting federal and local funds from being used for abortion;
* Maintains provisions prohibiting further marijuana legalization;
* Maintains a prohibition on federal funds from being used for needle exchanges and the supervised consumption of any Schedule I substances in the
* Prohibits funds for the DC Death with Dignity Act and fully repeals the local legislation; and
* Prohibits funds for enforcement of DC Reproductive Non-Discrimination Act.
Other Legislative Provisions -
* The bill prohibits the use of funds in the Federal Employee Health Benefits program for abortion.
* The bill prohibits funding to require that entities applying for or conducting work under federal contracts disclose campaign contributions.
* The bill includes a provision maintaining the six-day mail delivery requirement for the
* Title X carries the Email Privacy Act as passed by the House in the 115th
* Title XI carries the Amateur Radio Parity Act as passed by the House in the 115th
For the text of the draft bill, please visit: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP23/20180524/108372/BILLS-115-SC-AP-FY2019-FServices-FSGGBill.pdf
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