With schedules and logistics thrown into complete disarray by COVID-19, progress on the FY2021 spending bills had been stalled. The logjam has been partially broken, at least for now, in the House, with all 12 bills scheduled for markup this week.
Office of Federal Relations will provide additional details as they become available. The following are some of the highlights of several different bills so far:
Labor-HHS-Education
National Institutes of Health
- $47 billion total, an increase of $5.5 billion above current level ($5 billion of the increase is emergency appropriations, meaning the regular appropriation for the agency is $42 billion)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- $343 million, an increase of $500 million
Student Aid
- Pell Grant Maximum: $6,945, an increase of $150
- SEOG: $880 M ($15-million increase)
- Federal Work Study: $1.2 billion ($30-million increase)
- GEAR UP: $1.1 billion (an increase of $5 million)
The legislation would also prohibit the Department of Education from implementing its new Title IX regulations.
The text of the bill is available here and a summary of the bill prepared by the committee staff is available here. The report accompanying the bill, which contains most of the detailed breakdown of funding, is not yet available.
Commerce-Justice-Science
National Science Foundation
Under the bill unveiled earlier today, NSF would be funded at $8.55 billion, an increase of $270 million. Within NSF:
- Research and Related Activities Directorate would be funded at $6.97 billion (an increase of $229.9 million
- Education and Human Resources would be funded at $970 million (an increase of $30 million.
NASA
NASA would be flat-funded at $22.63 billion in the bill. The bill proposes to divide up the funding, in part, in the following manner:
- Science: $7.1 billion (a decrease of $42 million)
- Aeronautics: $819 million (an increase of $35 million)
- Space Tech: $1.1 billion (level funded)
- Space Grant: $50 million (an increase of $2 million)
NOAA
The bill would fund NOAA at $5.45 billion, an increase of $101.9 million.
This is the text of the bill and a summary is available here.
Interior
The current version of the House bill contains $36.76 billion in regular appropriations, an increase of $771 million, and $15 billion in emergency appropriations.
While we have not yet seen further breakdowns for the agency, the USGS is slated to receive an increase of $22 million under this bill.
Both the NEH and the NEA would each be funded at $170 million, an increase of $7.5 million.
The bill text is available here and the summary of the bill is available here.
Energy and Water
Under the the subcommittee-approved bill, the Department of Energy Office of Science would see an increase of $50 million and would be funded at $7.05 billion.
ARPA-E would see an increase of $10 million, while the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program.would be funded at $2.85 billion, an increase of $58 million.
The summary for the bill is available here.
Full Committee
The full Appropriations Committee is slated to take up the Interior bill on Friday and is scheduled to mark up both the Labor-HHS-Education and Energy and Water bills next Monday.
We will provide further details as they become available.