House Passes 2024 Indo-Pacific Security Funding Act Amid Taiwan, Regional Challenges
The House passed the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, funding submarine and defense in response to Taiwan and Indo-Pacific challenges, with no specific party driving the vote.
This is a bill that provides extra money, called an emergency supplemental appropriation, for the Indo-Pacific region's assistance and related expenses for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2024. Here's how it breaks down:
- Navy Operation and Maintenance: Extra $557.8 million to make the submarine areas better and other costs, usable until Sept 30, 2024.
- Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide: Extra $1.9 billion for responding to the situation in Taiwan, available until Sept 30, 2025. This money can be moved around to fix or buy new equipment needed for defense and to pay back for defense help given to Taiwan.
- Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy: Extra $2.155 billion, available until Sept 30, 2028, mainly for submarine area improvements:
- Columbia Class Submarine: $1.955 billion
- Virginia Class Submarine: $200 million
- Other Procurement, Navy: Extra $293.57 million for supporting submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2026.
- Defense Production Act Purchases: Extra $132.6 million to help the Defense Department with important projects, no end date given for spending.
- Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy: Extra $7 million for submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2025.
- General Provisions: Extra $542.4 million for the Defense Department to use for certain projects, available until Sept 30, 2024, but they need to make a plan and tell Congress before spending it.
- Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps: Extra $281.91 million for submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2028, but they need to tell Congress how they’ll spend it within 60 days.
- International Security Assistance: Extra $2 billion for helping the Indo-Pacific region, available until Sept 30, 2025, specifically for foreign military financing.
This bill clearly sets aside funds for defense, especially related to submarines and the Indo-Pacific region, with timelines for when the money can be used to make sure it’s spent on emergency needs.
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- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 385 - 34, 1 Present (Roll no. 146).Learn more
- Passed/agreed to in House On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 385 - 34, 1 Present (Roll no. 146).Learn more
- Considered as unfinished business.
- POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 10 of rule 20, the yeas and nays are ordered. Further proceedings are postponed.
- DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 1160, the House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Issa amendment No. 1.
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on H.R. 8036.
- Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 8034, H.R. 8035, H.R. 8036 and H.R. 8038. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 8034 under a closed rule and H.R. 8035, H.R. 8036, and H.R. 8038 under a structured rule. Provides for 30 minutes of general debate and one motion recommit on each bill. Rule also provides that upon disposition of the bills under consideration, the House will be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table H.R. 815 and to have concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment inserting the texts of all bills as passed by the House, if passed.
- Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1160.
- Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1160 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 8034, H.R. 8035, H.R. 8036 and H.R. 8038. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 8034 under a closed rule and H.R. 8035, H.R. 8036, and H.R. 8038 under a structured rule. Provides for 30 minutes of general debate and one motion recommit on each bill. Rule also provides that upon disposition of the bills under consideration, the House will be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table H.R. 815 and to have concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment inserting the texts of all bills as passed by the House, if passed.
- Introduced in House
This is a bill that provides extra money, called an emergency supplemental appropriation, for the Indo-Pacific region's assistance and related expenses for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2024. Here's how it breaks down:
- Navy Operation and Maintenance: Extra $557.8 million to make the submarine areas better and other costs, usable until Sept 30, 2024.
- Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide: Extra $1.9 billion for responding to the situation in Taiwan, available until Sept 30, 2025. This money can be moved around to fix or buy new equipment needed for defense and to pay back for defense help given to Taiwan.
- Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy: Extra $2.155 billion, available until Sept 30, 2028, mainly for submarine area improvements:
- Columbia Class Submarine: $1.955 billion
- Virginia Class Submarine: $200 million
- Other Procurement, Navy: Extra $293.57 million for supporting submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2026.
- Defense Production Act Purchases: Extra $132.6 million to help the Defense Department with important projects, no end date given for spending.
- Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy: Extra $7 million for submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2025.
- General Provisions: Extra $542.4 million for the Defense Department to use for certain projects, available until Sept 30, 2024, but they need to make a plan and tell Congress before spending it.
- Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps: Extra $281.91 million for submarine area improvements, available until Sept 30, 2028, but they need to tell Congress how they’ll spend it within 60 days.
- International Security Assistance: Extra $2 billion for helping the Indo-Pacific region, available until Sept 30, 2025, specifically for foreign military financing.
This bill clearly sets aside funds for defense, especially related to submarines and the Indo-Pacific region, with timelines for when the money can be used to make sure it’s spent on emergency needs.
- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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.
- Introduced in House