In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

September 15, 2010. 

Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 2868) entitled ‘‘An Act to provide increased access to the General Services Administration’s Schedules Program by the American 

Red Cross and State and local governments.’’, do pass with 

the following 

AMENDMENTS: 

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Supply Sched3 ules Usage Act of 2010’’. 

4 SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND 

5 OTHER QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS TO USE 

6 FEDERAL SUPPLY SCHEDULES FOR CERTAIN 

7 GOODS AND SERVICES. 

8 Section 502 of title 40, United States Code, is amended 

9 by adding at the end the following new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(e) USE OF SUPPLY SCHEDULES BY THE RED CROSS

11 AND OTHER QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may pro13 vide for the use by the American National Red Cross 

14 and other qualified organizations of Federal supply 
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1 schedules. Purchases under this authority by the 

2 American National Red Cross shall be used in fur3 therance of the purposes of the American National 

4 Red Cross set forth in section 300102 of title 36, 

5 United States Code. Purchases under this authority 

6 by other qualified organizations shall be used in fur7 therance of purposes determined to be appropriate to 

8 facilitate emergency preparedness and disaster relief 

9 and set forth in guidance by the Administrator of 

10 General Services, in consultation with the Adminis11 trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

12 ‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The authority under this sub13 section may not be used to purchase supplies for re14 sale. 

15 ‘‘(3) QUALIFIED ORGANIZATION.—In this sub16 section, the term ‘qualified organization’ means a re17 lief or disaster assistance organization as described in 

18 section 309 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

19 and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5152).’’. 

20 SEC. 3. DUTY OF USERS REGARDING USE OF FEDERAL SUP21 PLY SCHEDULES. 

22 Section 502 of title 40, United States Code, as amend23 ed by section 2, is further amended by adding at the end 

24 the following new subsection: 
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1 ‘‘(f) DUTY OF USERS REGARDING USE OF SUPPLY

2 SCHEDULES.—All users of Federal supply schedules, in3 cluding non-Federal users, shall use the schedules in accord4 ance with the ordering guidance provided by the Adminis5 trator of General Services.’’. 

6 SEC. 4. AUTHORITY OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 

7 TO USE SUPPLY SCHEDULES FOR CERTAIN 

8 GOODS AND SERVICES. 

9 Subsection (d)(1) of section 502 of title 40, United 

10 States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, to facilitate disaster 

11 preparedness or response,’’ after ‘‘Robert T. Stafford Dis12 aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 

13 et seq.)’’. 

14 SEC. 5. PAYGO COMPLIANCE. 

15 The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 

16 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

17 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled 

18 ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this Act, 

19 submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the 

20 Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that 

21 such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on pas22 sage. 
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Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to provide 

increased access to the Federal supply schedules of the 

General Services Administration to the American Red 

Cross, other qualified organizations, and State and local 

governments.’’. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

S. 2868 

AMENDMENTS