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Preliminary numbers courtesy of Senate Appropriations Committee.
|
Member |
Subcomm. |
Agency |
Provision/Funding |
|
Rubio |
AG |
ARS |
Maintains language for facility lease agreements |
|
Rubio |
AG |
ARS |
Retains report language on Citrus Greening Disease Research |
|
Rubio |
AG |
ARS |
$32.5 million increase for the Agricultural Research Service |
|
Rubio |
AG |
ARS |
Retains report language on Aquaculture |
|
Rubio |
AG |
ARS |
$1 million increase for the Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$48 million increase for NIFA programs |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$2.5 million for the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database (FARAD) |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$1.5 million increase for Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$25 million increase for AFRI |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$2 million increase for the Food Safety Outreach Program |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NIFA |
$35 million for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) |
|
Rubio |
AG |
APHIS |
$178.2 million provided for Specialty Crop Pests, including the Citrus Health Response Program |
|
Rubio |
AG |
APHIS |
$2 million increase for Huanglongbing Multi-Agency Coordination |
|
Rubio |
AG |
APHIS |
$981.9 million provided for APHIS, an increase of $35.7 million |
|
Rubio |
AG |
APHIS |
Report language retained for Huanglongbing Emergency Response |
|
Rubio |
AG |
APHIS |
$705,000 provided for Horse Protection |
|
Rubio |
AG |
FSA |
Fully funds Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund loan programs |
|
Rubio |
AG |
NRCS |
$10 million increase for Conservation Technical Assistance |
|
Rubio |
AG |
RUS |
Water & Waste – $1.057 billion for Water and Waste programs, an increase of $539 million above FY2017 enacted levels. This funding will support an additional $4.1 billion in loans and $895 million in grants |
|
Rubio |
AG |
RUS |
Maintains loan level for direct Rural Electrification Loans at $5.5 billion |
|
Rubio |
AG |
RBS |
ATTRA funded at $2.75 million |
|
Rubio |
AG |
FNS |
$10 million increase for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NIST ITS |
MEP = $140 million, an increase of $10 million over FY2017 enacted |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Stock Assessments – Provide up to $10,000,000 under NMFS for red snapper stock assessments in the Gulf of Mexico. |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Report language – econ and social science research – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Report language – Gear Study for South Atlantic Region – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Report language – MRIP – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Report language – South Atlantic Red Snapper – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NMFS |
Report language – South Atlantic Red Snapper Hooked Gears – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NOS |
Coastal Zone Management Grants – $75,000,000 = $5,000,000 increase over FY2017 enacted amount. |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NOS |
Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NOS |
National Marine Sanctuaries – $54,500,000 = an increase of $3,500,000 over FY2017 enacted. |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA NWS |
Analyze, Forecast and Support – Retained Senate report language |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA PAC |
CDARS = $21,650,000 = an increase of $21,150,000 over FY2017 enacted. |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NOAA PAC |
Hurricane Hunters – Expanded on Senate report language and provided $121,000,000 for NOAA to procure a hurricane hunter backup. |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
JJ |
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Missing and Exploited Training and Technical Assistance Program – $76M ($3.5M increase) |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
OVW |
Office on Violence Against Women Grant Programs = $492 million |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
JJ |
National Institute of Justice; Comprehensive School Safety Initative – $75M; report lang included |
|
Rubio |
CJS |
NASA Exploration |
Human Exploration Operations Programs – Full funding for Exploration Ground System at KSC, plus $350 million for new mobile launcher |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Air Force |
$5.65M above PB for F-15 modifications. |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Navy |
$7.5M above PB for Ocean Warfighting Environment Applied Research |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Navy |
$5M for Advanced Submarine System Development |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Defense-Wide |
Supports PB for Microelectronics Technology Development |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Navy |
Supports PB for: E-2D, E-2D Advanced Procurement; E-2D Advanced Hawkeye; MQ-4 Advanced Procurement; MQ-8 UAV; P-8A Advanced Procurement; F-18 Advanced Procurement |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Navy |
$465M for an additional (3) P-8A aircraft |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Navy |
$739M above PB for an addiitonal (10) F-18s for the Navy. |
|
Rubio |
DEF |
Air Force |
Support of PB for E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Supported the budget request of $82 million for Herbert Hoover Dike construction and included an additional $180 million in the additional funding pot for Flood Control in the Construction account. In FY17, the Herbert Hoover Dike project received an additional $18.67 million from this additional funding pot. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included additional $35 million in the Construction account for Environmental Restoration and Compliance. In the FY17 work plan, the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration project received an additional $8.5 million from this additional funding pot. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included senate report language in the Investigations account for Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) Expedited Validation Study which urges the Corps to expedite the required validation report for the Central Everglades Planning Project. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included senate report language in the Investigations account encouraging the Corps to conduct, at full federal expense, a study of the coastal areas in the South Atlantic Division to identify the risks and vulnerabilities of those areas to increased hurricane and storm damage reduction as authorized in section 1204 of the WIIN Act. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included senate report language in the Construction account that Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan-Indian River Lagoon-South urging the Corps to expedite preparations for design work on the C-23 and C-24 South Reservoirs that along with C-44 Reservoir. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included senate report language in the Construction account urging the Corps to provide states with guidance and recommendations to implement cost effective measures and planning for sand management. Also included conference report language encouraging the Corps to include in future budget submissions the study of sediment sources authorized in section 1143 of PL 114-322 |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included additional $3 million for the Continuing Authorities Section 103- Shore Protection. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included two construction new starts for Navigation, and one construction new start for a Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project (the Lido Key Shore Protection project would be eligible to compete under this new start). |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included additional $481 million above the FY17 enacted levels in the O&M account including $24.28 million for Navigation Maintenance; $30 million for Inland Waterways; and $50 million for Small, Remote, or Subsistence Navigation. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included additional funding to meet the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund spending target established by WRRDA 2014. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included $40 million in the O&M account for Donor and Energy Transfer Ports. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included senate report language in the Construction account directing the Corps to make publically available a comprehensive snapshot of all SFER cost-share accounting down to the project level for FY18 by September 30, 2018. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included $6 million for Coastal Ocean Data System (CODS), $3.5 million above the budget request. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Included $70 million above the budget request in the Construction account for Environmental Infrastructure. In FY17, the Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements received $2M from this additional funding pot. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
Corps of Engineers |
Supported the budget request of $10 million for the National (Levee) Flood Inventory remaining line item in O&M, $5 million above the FY17 enacted levels. |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
DOE/ODA |
$25 million to address threats to critical infrastructure and industrial control systems |
|
Rubio |
EWD |
DOE/ARPA-E |
$353.314 million for ARPA-E |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
SBA |
Report language requiring a briefing on the effect of Zika on small businesses |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
SBA |
Report language for a study on the geographic dispersion of Small Business Investment Companies |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
GSA |
Funding for Ft. Lauderdale, FL courthouse |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
Treasury |
Report language on Puerto Rico technical assistance |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
ONDCP-DFC |
Increased funding for Drug Free Commmunites program |
|
Rubio |
FSGG |
ONDCP-HIDTA |
Increased funding for HIDTA program |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
NPS |
Report language included to help strengthen the coordination between federal and state management of marine fisheries management and ecosystem protection in Biscayne National Park. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
NPS |
Restored cuts proposed by the Administration for Everglades and $10.032M included for Everglades. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
USFWS |
Invasive species funding within the FWS is at the enacted level or higher throughout the bill. Within the National Wildlife Refuge account, there is specific report language calling out the Service’s work on invasive species efforts in the Everglades. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
USGS |
Funding for invasive species is continued at the enacted level with report language for Everglades work to continue. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
USFWS |
Report language related to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s current CITES permitting process is included with the goal to identify bottlenecks within the current system causing delays in permit approval. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
EPA |
The South Florida program is funded at the FY 17 level and there is specific report language relating to the program. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
USFWS |
State and Tribal Wildlife Grants are funded at $63.6 million, a $1 million increase from FY 17. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
Smithsonian Institute |
Report language on the Latino museum is included. |
|
Rubio |
Interior |
LWCF |
LWCF programs receive $425M, a $25M increase and includes 4 FL projects. |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
DOL |
$86.1 million for Bureau of International Labor Affairs |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/HRSA |
+$135 million for opioid response within community health centers |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/HRSA |
Continues funding at $2.319 billion for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/HRSA |
Includes $20.8 million for Poison Control Centers (+$2 million) |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/HRSA |
Includes $651.7 million for the Maternal & Child Health Block Grant (+$10 million) |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/Opioids |
Provides $3.6 billion for opioid response, an increase of $2.55 billion. Increases are as follows: $415 million for HRSA, $350 million for CDC, $500 million for NIH, $100 million for ACF, $1.2 billion for SAMHSA, of which $1,000 billion is for state block grants which includes a 15 percent set-aside for hardest hit states, $50 million for Tribes, and $4 million State floor. |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CDC |
$615 million (+$30 million) for Emerging Zoonic and Infectious Diseases |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CDC |
$670 million (+$10 million) for Public Health Emergency Preparedness |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CDC |
An increase of $350 million for Prescriptions Drug Overdose activities |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CDC |
$141 million (+$3 million) for National Center on Birth Defects |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CDC |
$49 million (+$5 million) for Rape Prevention |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/CMS |
DME Interim Final Rule SOM language |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/OS |
Includes Zika report language in the Senate bill |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/OS |
Includes Risk Corridor bill language |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/PHSSEF |
An increase of $7.5 million for National Disaster Medical Reserve Corps |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/PHSSEF |
$25 million increase for BARDA |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/PHSSEF |
$200 million for Project BioShield |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/NIH |
$3 billion increase for National Institutes of Health |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/NIH |
$140 million increase for BRAIN Initiative |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/NIH |
$292.8 million increase for National Cancer Institute |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/NIH |
$414 million increase for Alzheimer’s Research |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$299 million increase for IDEA Grants to States |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$58 million increase for Charter Schools Programs |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$7 million increase for Magnet Schools Program |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$2.5 million increase for Special Olympics |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$10 million for the new Statewide Family Engagement Centers program |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$82 million increase for Aid for Institutional Development programs |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$75 million increase for CTE State Grants |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$107 million increase for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
ED |
$26 million increase for AmeriCorps State and National grants |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
HHS/ED |
$47 million increas for school safety evidence-based competitive grant programs at Education and HHS, and $700 million increase in Student Support and Academic Enrichment formula grants to school districts that can be used for school counselors, school-based mental health and related activities. |
|
Rubio |
LHHS |
|
$47 million increase for school safety |
|
Rubio |
Leg Branch |
Sergeant at Arms |
Increases funding for cybersecurity efforts in the Senate |
|
Rubio |
Leg Branch |
Senate |
Report language for Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
DoD |
includes full funding for Florida MILCON request at Eglin AFB, Mayport, MacDill AFB, Hurlburt Field and Patrick AFB |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
DoD |
includes an additional two Florida projects from the UFR list authorized in the NDAA at Eglin AFB and Tyndall |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
DoD |
includes report language regarding strategic disperal of east coast homported capital ships, as you requested |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
DoD |
includes report language regarding test and training range instrumentation modernization, as you requested |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
VA |
Camp Lejeune water claims report language |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
VA |
PTSD treatment at universities report language |
|
Rubio |
MilCon-VA |
VA |
reforms to expediate the appeals process report language |