HOUSE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FY 2000 -- H.R. 3908

Note: Items that appear in italics were not included in the version of the legislation reported by the House Appropriations Committee, but were the result of amendments added during consideration of the legislation by the full House.

Title I: Counternarcotics -- $1,701,021,000

Chapter 1: Department of Justice - Makes additional funds available for salaries and expenses of the Drug Enforcement Administration -- $299,698,000

Chapter 2: Department of Defense--Military - Makes additional funds available for defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities -- $185,800,000

Chapter 3: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes funds available to the Department of State for Plan Colombia and Andean regional counternarcotics activities. Requires the Secretary of State, prior to obligation of such funds, to report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Appropriations Committees on proposed uses of such funds on a country-by-country basis -- $1,099,000,000

Chapter 4: Military Construction, Defense-Wide - Provides additional funds for defense-wide military construction -- $116,523,000

Title II: Peacekeeping Operations in Kosovo and Other National Security Matters -- $8,955,623,000

Chapter 1: Department of State - Makes additional funds available for security and maintenance of U.S. missions -- $104,000,000

Chapter 2: Department of Defense--Military - Provides additional funds for Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard operation and maintenance (O&M) -- $112,342,000

as well as defense-wide O&M for assistance to Vieques, Puerto Rico -- $40,000,000

Makes additional funds available for:
(1) the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund (Funding for Kosovo Operations) -- $2,050,400,000
(2) Air Force aircraft procurement -- $73,000,000
(3) the Defense Health Program -- $3,533,000

(Sec. 2202) Appropriates additional funds for the Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund for price increases resulting from worldwide increases in the price of petroleum -- $1,556,200,000

(Sec. 2205) Makes additional appropriations for the Defense Health Program for unanticipated increases in TRICARE contract costs for FY 1998 through 2001 -- $854,500,000

(Sec. 2207) Quality of Life -- $231,000,000, of which $221,00,000 is for Basic Allowance for Housing.

(Sec. 2208) Military Recruiting, Advertising and Retention
(1) Personnel -- $450,600,000
(2) O&M -- $150,000,000

(Sec. 2209) Defense Health Program -- $750,000,000

(Sec. 2210) Depot-Level Maintenance and Repair -- $1,205,600,000

(Sec. 2211) -- Support for Deployed Forces
(1) O&M -- $738,900,000
(2) Procurement -- $405,800,000
(3) RDT&E -- $68,000,000

Total for Chapter 2 -- $8,689,875,000

Chapter 3: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Provides additional funds for:
(1) operating expenses of the Agency for International Development -- $13,000,000
(2) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States only for assistance for Montenegro and Croatia, assistance to promote democratization in Serbia, and assistance for Kosovo for police activities -- $95,825,000
(3) international military education and training and foreign military financing for grants to Balkan and southeastern European countries -- $2,875,000

Foreign Military Financing Program -- $31,000,000

Chapter 4: Military Construction, Defense-Wide - Appropriates additional funds to DOD to cover incremental O&M costs to family housing -- $6,700,000

Makes additional funds available for Army Reserve military construction to cover the costs arising from the consequences of Hurricane Floyd -- $12,348,000

Title III: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency Appropriations -- $4,977,700,000

Chapter 1: Department of Agriculture - Provides additional funds for:
(1) the Office of the Inspector General -- $2,000,000
(2) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service salaries and expenses -- $7,140,000
(3) Farm Service Agency salaries and expenses -- $77,560,000

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund -- $13,000,000

Makes additional funds available for the Rural Community Advancement Program for water and waste grants and community facilities grants -- $28,000,000

Chapter 4: Department of the Interior -- Provides additional funds for Forest Service wildland fire management for emergency rehabilitation, presuppression, and wildfire suppression. -- $250,000,000

Chapter 5: Department of Health and Human Services - Makes additional funds available for the Administration for Children and Families for emergency low income home energy assistance -- $600,000,000

Chapter 7: Department of the Treasury, to reduce the public debt -- $4,000,000,000

Prepared by Christopher Hellman, Senior Research Analyst, April 4, 12000.

Source: H.R. 3908, House Supplemental Approprations Act for Fiscal Year 2000, as adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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