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cable to the House of Representatives by section 511(a)(4) 
of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
SEC. 2503. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2401 of the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, 
the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 
(Public Law 109–234) is amended by striking ‘‘12 
months’’ and inserting ‘‘24 months’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall be effective on the date of enactment of 
the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for De-
fense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 
2006 (Public Law 109–234). 
CHAPTER 6 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 
SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 
Notwithstanding section 2002(c) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1397a(c)), funds made available under 
the heading ‘‘Social Services Block Grant’’ in division B 
of Public Law 109–148 shall be available for expenditure 
by the States through the end of fiscal year 2008: Pro-
vided, That the amount provided under this heading is 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), as made 
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applicable to the House of Representatives by section 
511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by subpart 1 
of part D of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965, $30,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for use by the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, 
and Alabama for the following costs: (1) recruiting and 
compensating teachers, principals, other school adminis-
trators, and other educators for positions in reopening 
public elementary and secondary schools impacted by Hur-
ricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, including through such 
mechanisms as paying salary premiums, performance bo-
nuses, housing subsidies and relocation costs; and (2) ac-
tivities to build the capacity of reopening such public ele-
mentary and secondary schools to provide an effective edu-
cation, including the design, adaptation, and implementa-
tion of high-quality formative assessments; the establish-
ment of partnerships with nonprofit entities with a dem-
onstrated track record in recruiting and retaining out-
standing teachers and other school leaders; and paid re-
lease time for teachers and principals to identify and rep-
licate successful practices from the fastest-improving and 
highest-performing schools: Provided, That the Secretary 
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of Education shall allocate such funds among such States 
that submit applications; that such allocation shall be 
based on the number of public elementary and secondary 
schools in each State that were closed for 30 days or more 
during the period beginning on August 29, 2005, and end-
ing on December 31, 2005, due to Hurricane Katrina or 
Hurricane Rita; and that such States shall in turn allocate 
funds, on a competitive basis, to local education agencies, 
giving priority to such agencies with the highest percent-
ages of public elementary and secondary schools that are 
closed as a result of such hurricanes as of the date of en-
actment of this Act and the highest percentages of public 
elementary and secondary schools with a student-teacher 
ratio of at least 25 to 1: Provided further, That not later 
than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
State educational agency, in cooperation with local edu-
cational agencies, teachers’ unions, local principals’ orga-
nizations, local parents’ organizations, local business orga-
nizations, and local charter schools organizations, shall de-
velop a plan for a rating system for performance bonuses 
and if the State educational agency has failed to reach 
such an agreement that is satisfactory to all consulting 
entities by such deadline, the State educational agency 
shall immediately notify Congress of such failure and rea-
sons for it and shall, not later than 30 days after such 
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notification, establish and implement a rating system that 
shall be based on strong learning gains for students and 
growth in student achievement, based on classroom obser-
vation and feedback at least 4 times annually, conducted 
by multiple sources (including principals and master 
teachers), and evaluated against research-validated ru-
brics that use planning, instructional, and learning envi-
ronment standards to measure teaching performance: Pro-
vided further, That the amount provided under this head-
ing is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), as 
made applicable to the House of Representatives by sec-
tion 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
HURRICANE EDUCATION RECOVERY 
PROGRAMS TO RESTART SCHOOL OPERATIONS 
Funds made available under section 102 of the Hur-
ricane Education Recovery Act (title IV of division B of 
Public Law 109–148) may be used by the States of Lou-
isiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, in addition to the 
uses of funds described in section 102(e) for the following 
costs: (1) recruiting and compensating teachers, prin-
cipals, other school administrators, and other educators 
for positions in reopening public elementary and secondary 
schools impacted by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, 
including through such mechanisms as paying salary pre-
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miums, performance bonuses, housing subsidies and relo-
cation costs; and (2) activities to build the capacity of re-
opening such public elementary and secondary schools to 
provide an effective education, including the design, adap-
tation, and implementation of high-quality formative as-
sessments; the establishment of partnerships with non-
profit entities with a demonstrated track record in recruit-
ing and retaining outstanding teachers and other school 
leaders; and paid release time for teachers and principals 
to identify and replicate successful practices from the fast-
est-improving and highest-performing schools: Provided, 
That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the State educational agency, in cooperation 
with local educational agencies, teachers’ unions, local 
principals’ organizations, local parents’ organizations, 
local business organizations, and local charter schools or-
ganizations, shall develop a plan for a rating system for 
performance bonuses and if the State educational agency 
has failed to reach such an agreement that is satisfactory 
to all consulting entities by such deadline, the State edu-
cational agency shall immediately notify Congress of such 
failure and reasons for it and shall, not later than 30 days 
after such notification, establish and implement a rating 
system that shall be based on strong learning gains for 
students and growth in student achievement, based on 
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classroom observation and feedback at least 4 times annu-
ally, conducted by multiple sources (including principals 
and master teachers), and evaluated against research-vali-
dated rubrics that use planning, instructional, and learn-
ing environment standards to measure teaching perform-
ance: Provided further, That the amount provided under 
this heading is designated as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Con-
gress), as made applicable to the House of Representatives 
by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For an additional amount under part B of title VII 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (‘‘HEA’’) for institu-
tions of higher education (as defined in section 102 of that 
Act) that are located in an area in which a major disaster 
was declared in accordance with section 401 of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
related to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in calendar 
year 2005, $30,000,000: Provided, That such funds shall 
be available to the Secretary of Education only for pay-
ments to help defray the expenses (which may include lost 
revenue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, 
and construction) incurred by such institutions of higher 
education that were forced to close for at least 30 consecu-
tive calendar days between August 25, 2005, and January 
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1, 2006, as a result of damage directly caused by such 
hurricanes and for payments to enable such institutions 
to provide grants to students who attend such institutions 
for academic years beginning on or after July 1, 2006: 
Provided further, That such payments shall be made in 
accordance with criteria established by the Secretary and 
made publicly available without regard to section 437 of 
the General Education Provisions Act, section 553 of title 
5, United States Code, or part B of title VII of the HEA: 
Provided further, That the amount provided under this 
heading is designated as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), 
as made applicable to the House of Representatives by sec-
tion 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 2601. Section 105(b) of title IV of division B 
of Public Law 109–148 is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘With respect to the program 
authorized by section 102 of this Act, the waiver authority 
in subsection (a) of this section shall be available until 
the end of fiscal year 2008.’’. 
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CHAPTER 7 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For an additional amount for the purposes specified 
under, and subject to the provisions of, this heading in 
chapter 9 of title I of division B of Public Law 109–148 
(119 Stat. 2779), $80,000,000, to remain available until 
December 31, 2007: Provided, That the third proviso 
under such heading in Public Law 109–148 shall be ap-
plied to amounts made available under this heading and 
under such heading in Public Law 109–148 by sub-
stituting ‘‘until December 31, 2007’’ for ‘‘for up to 18 
months’’: Provided further, That $80,000,000 shall be re-
scinded from unobligated balances remaining from the 
amounts made available under such heading in Public Law 
109–148: Provided further, That the amount provided 
under this heading is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th 
Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representa-
tives by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ for necessary expenses related to the con-
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sequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of 
the 2005 season, $10,240,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007: Provided, That the amount provided 
under this heading is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th 
Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representa-
tives by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
TITLE III—AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 3101. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—There are hereby ap-
propriated to the Secretary of Agriculture such sums as 
are necessary, to remain available until expended, to make 
emergency financial assistance available to producers on 
a farm that incurred qualifying quantity or quality losses 
for the 2005 or 2006 crop, or for the 2007 crop before 
the date of the enactment of this Act, due to damaging 
weather or any related condition (including losses due to 
crop diseases, insects, and delayed harvest), as determined 
by the Secretary. However, to be eligible for assistance, 
the crop subject to the loss must have been harvested be-
fore the date of the enactment of this Act or, in the case 
of prevented planting or other total loss, would have been 
harvested before the date of the enactment of this Act in 
the absence of the damaging weather or any related condi-
tion. 
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(b) ELECTION OF CROP YEAR.—If a producer in-
curred qualifying crop losses in more than one of the 
2005, 2006, or 2007 crop years, the producer shall elect 
to receive assistance under this section for losses incurred 
in only one of such crop years. The producer may not re-
ceive assistance under this section for more than one crop 
year. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall make 
assistance available under this section in the same 
manner as provided under section 815 of the Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Admin-
istration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–55), 
including using the same loss thresholds for quantity 
and economic losses as were used in administering 
that section, except that the payment rate shall be 
50 percent of the established price, instead of 65 
percent. 
(2) 
LOSS
THRESHOLDS
FOR
QUALITY 
LOSSES.—In the case of a payment for quality loss 
for a crop under subsection (a), the loss thresholds 
for quality loss for the crop shall be determined 
under subsection (d). 
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(d) QUALITY LOSSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (3), 
the amount of a payment made to producers on a 
farm for a quality loss for a crop under subsection 
(a) shall be equal to the amount obtained by multi-
plying— 
(A) 65 percent of the payment quantity de-
termined under paragraph (2); by 
(B) 50 percent of the payment rate deter-
mined under paragraph (3). 
(2) PAYMENT QUANTITY.—For the purpose of 
paragraph (1)(A), the payment quantity for quality 
losses for a crop of a commodity on a farm shall 
equal the lesser of— 
(A) the actual production of the crop af-
fected by a quality loss of the commodity on the 
farm; or 
(B) the quantity of expected production of 
the crop affected by a quality loss of the com-
modity on the farm, using the formula used by 
the Secretary of Agriculture to determine quan-
tity losses for the crop of the commodity under 
subsection (a). 
(3) PAYMENT RATE.—For the purpose of para-
graph (1)(B) and in accordance with paragraphs (5) 
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and (6), the payment rate for quality losses for a 
crop of a commodity on a farm shall be equal to the 
difference between— 
(A) the per unit market value that the 
units of the crop affected by the quality loss 
would have had if the crop had not suffered a 
quality loss; and 
(B) the per unit market value of the units 
of the crop affected by the quality loss. 
(4) ELIGIBILITY.—For producers on a farm to 
be eligible to obtain a payment for a quality loss for 
a crop under subsection (a), the amount obtained by 
multiplying the per unit loss determined under para-
graph (1) by the number of units affected by the 
quality loss shall be at least 25 percent of the value 
that all affected production of the crop would have 
had if the crop had not suffered a quality loss. 
(5) MARKETING CONTRACTS.—In the case of 
any production of a commodity that is sold pursuant 
to 1 or more marketing contracts (regardless of 
whether the contract is entered into by the pro-
ducers on the farm before or after harvest) and for 
which appropriate documentation exists, the quan-
tity designated in the contracts shall be eligible for 
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quality loss assistance based on the 1 or more prices 
specified in the contracts. 
(6) OTHER PRODUCTION.—For any additional 
production of a commodity for which a marketing 
contract does not exist or for which production con-
tinues to be owned by the producer, quality losses 
shall be based on the average local market discounts 
for reduced quality, as determined by the appro-
priate State committee of the Farm Service Agency. 
(7) QUALITY ADJUSTMENTS AND DISCOUNTS.— 
The appropriate State committee of the Farm Serv-
ice Agency shall identify the appropriate quality ad-
justment and discount factors to be considered in 
carrying out this subsection, including— 
(A) the average local discounts actually ap-
plied to a crop; and 
(B) the discount schedules applied to loans 
made by the Farm Service Agency or crop in-
surance coverage under the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
(8) ELIGIBLE PRODUCTION.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall carry out this subsection in a fair 
and equitable manner for all eligible production, in-
cluding the production of fruits and vegetables, 
other specialty crops, and field crops. 
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(e) PAYMENT LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) LIMIT ON AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE.—As-
sistance provided under this section to a producer 
for losses to a crop, together with the amounts speci-
fied in paragraph (2) applicable to the same crop, 
may not exceed 95 percent of what the value of the 
crop would have been in the absence of the losses, 
as estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(2) OTHER PAYMENTS.—In applying the limita-
tion in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall include the 
following: 
(A) Any crop insurance payment made 
under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) or payment under section 
196 of the Federal Agricultural Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) that 
the producer receives for losses to the same 
crop. 
(B) The value of the crop that was not lost 
(if any), as estimated by the Secretary. 
(3) DUPLICATIVE
PAYMENTS.—The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall ensure, to the maximum extent 
practicable, that no producer on a farm receives du-
plicative payments under this section and any other 
Federal program for the same loss. 
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(f) ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS
AND
LIMITA-
TIONS.—The producers on a farm shall not be eligible for 
assistance under this section with respect to losses to an 
insurable commodity or noninsurable commodity if the 
producers on the farm— 
(1) in the case of an insurable commodity, did 
not obtain a policy or plan of insurance for the in-
surable commodity under the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) for the crop incur-
ring the losses; 
(2) in the case of a noninsurable commodity, 
did not file the required paperwork, and pay the ad-
ministrative fee by the applicable State filing dead-
line, for the noninsurable commodity under section 
196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) for the crop 
incurring the losses; or 
(3) were not in compliance with highly erodible 
land conservation and wetland conservation provi-
sions. 
(g) TIMING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments to 
producers on a farm for a crop under this section 
not later than 60 days after the date the producers 
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on the farm submit to the Secretary a completed ap-
plication for the payments. 
(2) INTEREST.—If the Secretary does not make 
payments to the producers on a farm by the date de-
scribed in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall pay to 
the producers on a farm interest on the payments at 
a rate equal to the current (as of the sign-up dead-
line established by the Secretary) market yield on 
outstanding, marketable obligations of the United 
States with maturities of 30 years. 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) INSURABLE COMMODITY.—The term ‘‘insur-
able commodity’’ means an agricultural commodity 
(excluding livestock) for which the producers on a 
farm are eligible to obtain a policy or plan of insur-
ance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
(2) NONINSURABLE
COMMODITY.—The term 
‘‘noninsurable commodity’’ means a crop for which 
the producers on a farm are eligible to obtain assist-
ance under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
7333). 
SEC. 3102. LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE. 
(a) LIVESTOCK COMPENSATION PROGRAM.— 
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