What the bill does
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 This bill provides FY2019 appropriations to federal agencies, including supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance and continuing appropriations for agencies that are included in the seven FY2019 appropriations bills that have not been enacted. The bill provides $14.2 billion in FY2019 supplemental appropriations for expenses related to the consequences of recent wildfires, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. The bill designates the spending as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. The bill includes supplemental appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, the U. S. Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bill also provides continuing FY2019 appropriations to several federal agencies through the earlier of February 8, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation. This is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial government shutdown that began after the existing CR expired on December 21, 2018, because seven of the remaining FY2019 appropriations bills…
Subjects: Accounting and auditing, Agricultural marketing and promotion, Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit, Agricultural research, Appropriations, Army Corps of Engineers, Atmospheric science and weather, Aviation and airports, Child safety and welfare, Coast guard