House Appropriations Subcommittee Clears FY 2019 Budget Bill With Funding Up for FCC, FTC
The House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee cleared its FY 2019 budget bill on a voice vote Thursday, including larger-than-requested allocations for the FCC and FTC. House Appropriations Financial Services allocated the FCC and its Office of Inspector General a combined…
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$335 million, $2 million above the $333 million the Trump administration included in its FY 2019 budget proposal (see 1802120037). The budget bill maintains the FCC OIG's budget at slightly more than $11 million. House Appropriations Financial Services allocated more than $311 million to the FTC, up more than $1 million from the almost $310 million the Trump administration proposed. The subcommittee's budget bill also includes the text of the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR-555/S-1534), which would direct the FCC to extend its rule on reasonable accommodation of amateur service communications to include private land use restrictions (see 1707130039). That bill passed the House in January 2017, but its text was dropped from FCC reauthorization legislation when the House Commerce Committee cleared it as part of the Repack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services (Ray Baum's) Act (HR-4986), prior to its enactment as part of the FY 2018 federal spending omnibus bill (see 1802140064 and 1803230038). S-1534 generated opposition on the Senate side (see 1710040063), particularly from Senate Commerce ranking member Bill Nelson, D-Fla. The House version of the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-5515), which the chamber passed Thursday, also includes HR-555's text (see 1805240064).