Title: RE-POWER Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Resources to Expand Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Act or the RE-POWER Act
This bill provides FY2022 supplemental appropriations to carry out Appalachian Regional Commission grant programs. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5000 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5000

    To appropriate funds to carry out certain Appalachian Regional 
           Commission grant programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 10, 2021

Mr. Lamb (for himself and Mr. McKinley) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
 Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To appropriate funds to carry out certain Appalachian Regional 
           Commission grant programs, 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 ``Resources to Expand Partnerships for 
Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Act'' or the 
``RE-POWER Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE PARTNERSHIPS FOR OPPORTUNITY AND WORKFORCE AND 
              ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION INITIATIVE.

    (a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise made available, 
there is appropriated, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2022, to 
remain available until expended, $1,000,000,000 to carry out section 
14321 of title 40, United States Code.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--The amount provided under subsection 
(a) is designated as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985.
    (c) Limitation on Aggregate Amount.--Section 14321(a)(2) of title 
40, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``, or a discretionary 
grant to carry out the Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and 
Economic Revitalization (POWER) initiative,'' after ``Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 (COVID-19)''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Authorization of appropriations.--Section 14703 of 
        title 40, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(5) by striking ``2021'' and 
                inserting ``2022''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c) by striking ``2021'' and 
                inserting ``2022''.
            (2) Termination.--Section 14704 of title 40, United States 
        Code, is amended by striking ``October 1, 2021'' and inserting 
        ``October 1, 2022''.
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