Bill SponsorBILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 1214
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act of 2019
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Feb 13, 2019
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Feb 13, 2019
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Feb 13, 2019)
Feb 13, 2019
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 1214 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1214


To prohibit certain funds from being transferred or reprogrammed to plan, develop, or construct a new physical barrier along the Southwest border, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 13, 2019

Ms. Velázquez (for herself, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Moore, Mr. Espaillat, Mrs. Demings, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Lawson of Florida, and Mr. Serrano) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To prohibit certain funds from being transferred or reprogrammed to plan, develop, or construct a new physical barrier along the Southwest border, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act of 2019”.

SEC. 2. Prohibition on use of certain funds for a new physical barrier along the Southwest border.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by Public Law 115–56, Public Law 115–123, Public Law 115–72, or Public Law 115–254 to the Department of Homeland Security or Department of Housing and Urban Development for activities relating to disaster relief or recovery may be transferred or reprogrammed to plan, develop, or construct a new physical barrier along the Southwest border of the United States. Furthermore, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Corps of Engineers by Public Law 115–123 may be transferred or reprogrammed under section 2293 of title 33, United States Code.