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On the recordApril 3, 2019
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 15, strike lines 6 through 12, and insert the following: (G) in paragraph (16)-- (i) in subparagraph (C)(i), by striking ``$20,000 in Department funds, unless the Deputy Attorney General'' and inserting ``$100,000 in Department funds, unless the Director or Principal Deputy Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, the Deputy Attorney General,''; and (ii) by adding at the end the following: ``(E) Ineligibility.--If the Attorney General finds that a recipient of grant funds under this Act has fraudulently misused such grant funds, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing, such recipient shall not be eligible to receive grant funds under this Act for up to 5 years. A misuse of grant funds or an error that does not rise to the level of fraud is not grounds for ineligibility.''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 281, the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Wagner) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Missouri.
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Ann Wagner
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