Title: Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act
This bill prohibits transferring certain funds already made available to the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Housing and Urban Development for disaster relief to the planning or construction of new physical barriers along the southwestern U.S. border. The bill also prohibits using national emergency provisions to transfer certain funds already made available to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 534 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 534

  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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 14, 2019

Ms. Warren (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. 
  Gillibrand, Mr. Menendez, and Ms. Harris) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 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''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS FOR A NEW PHYSICAL BARRIER 
              ALONG THE SOUTHWEST BORDER.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
            (1) none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
        available to the Department of Homeland Security or the 
        Department of Housing and Urban Development under the 
        Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental 
        Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017 
        (Public Law 115-56), the Additional Supplemental Appropriations 
        for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-72), 
        the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123), or the 
        FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-254) 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; and
            (2) none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
        available to the Corps of Engineers under the Bipartisan Budget 
        Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123) may be transferred or 
        reprogrammed under section 923 of the Water Resources 
        Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2293).
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