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| 106-hr-5499 | 106 | hr | 5499 | Windstorm Hazard Reduction Research and Technology Transfer Act | Emergency Management | 2000-10-19 | 2000-10-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Basic Research. | House | Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3] | KS | D | M001140 | 10 | Windstorm Hazard Reduction Research and Technology Transfer Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish an Interagency Group to be responsible for the development and implementation of a Federal windstorm hazard reduction research, development, and technology transfer program to achieve major measurable reductions in losses to life and property from windstorms.Establishes a National Advisory Committee to review the program's progress, advise on any improvements, and report to Congress on actions taken to reduce the impacts of windstorm hazards. | 2025-08-20T14:20:20Z | |
| 106-hr-4969 | 106 | hr | 4969 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for stockpiling potassium iodide tablets in areas within a 50-mile radius of a nuclear power plant. | Emergency Management | 2000-07-26 | 2000-07-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-21] | PA | R | E000187 | 1 | Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, jointly with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other appropriate Federal agencies, to develop, transmit to Congress, and implement a plan for stockpiling potassium iodide tablets in areas within a 50-mile radius of a nuclear power plant which includes a strategy for the storage and delivery of such tablets to persons who may be affected by a disaster at such a plant. | 2025-01-02T17:14:52Z | |
| 106-hr-4803 | 106 | hr | 4803 | National Flood Insurance Program Fairness Act | Emergency Management | 2000-06-29 | 2000-07-31 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. | House | Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13] | CA | D | S000810 | 2 | National Flood Insurance Program Fairness Act - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to replace requirements for the notification of changes to flood insurance map panels (thus, repealing them) with the following new requirements for the notification and appeal of such changes.Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide notice of any change to flood insurance map panels, including any change in a letter of map amendment or a letter of map revision by: (1) providing the chief executive officer of each community affected by the change, by registered mail, a copy of the revised maps for such community and a statement explaining the process under this Act to appeal to the Director for changes in such revised maps; and (2) causing notice of such changes to be published in the Federal Register, and a statement explaining the process (under this Act) to appeal to the Director for changes in such revised maps.Allows a community affected by the change to appeal the change.Requires the Director: (1) during a 30-day period that begins upon the receipt of an objection, to determine whether to deny the objection, revise the changes to the panels in response to the objection, or to grant additional time to the community to obtain evidence related to the objection; and (2) to notify the chief executive of the community, in writing and by registered mail, of such determination.Requires the Director, not later than 30 days after any final determination as described by this Act, to provide written notification to each owner of real property affected by the change to panels resulting from such determination.Requires the Director, if an owner of real property affected by a change to panels incurs expense in connection with the services of surveyors, engineers, or similar services (but not legal services) in effecting any appeal of such change to the Director which is successful, to reimburse such individual for such expense.Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to repeal th… | 2025-08-20T14:19:52Z | |
| 106-s-2736 | 106 | s | 2736 | Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act | Emergency Management | 2000-06-15 | 2000-06-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5259-5262) | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 1 | Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act - Entitles persons suffering injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death, as a result of the Cerro Grande, New Mexico, fire (the fire resulting from the National Park Service's prescribed burn at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, on May 4, 2000) to receive from the United States compensation for injury suffered as a result of such fire.Establishes an Office of Cerro Grande Fire Claims within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to receive, process, and pay claims in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the FEMA Director to appoint an Independent Claims Manager to head the Office and assume the Director's duties under this title.Provides for submission of claims no later than two years after the date regulations are first promulgated under this Act. Requires the Director, on behalf of the United States, to investigate, determine, grant, deny, or settle any claim for money damages asserted by an injured person.Applies the laws of the State of New Mexico to the calculation of damages. Limits payments under thisAct to actual compensatory damages measured by injuries suffered and excludes interest before settlement or payment of a claim or punitive damages.Requires the Director, no later than 180 days after a claim is submitted, to determine and fix the amount to be paid for the claim. Provides for the payment of subrogation claims only after paying claims submitted by injured parties that are not insurance companies seeking payment as subrogees. Requires the Director, to prevent recovery by a claimant in excess of actual compensatory damages, to reduce the amount to be paid for the claim by an amount equal to the total of insurance benefits or other payments or settlements to be paid with respect to the claim. Authorizes a claimant, if a partial payment is received, but further payment on a claim is denied, to seek judicial review and keep any received payment unless the claimant was ineligible for, or fraudulently procured, the compensation.Describes allo… | 2025-08-20T14:19:02Z | |
| 106-hr-4452 | 106 | hr | 4452 | Making emergency supplemental appropriations for wildland fire management for fiscal year 2000. | Emergency Management | 2000-05-15 | 2000-05-16 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3052-3053) | House | Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6] | WA | D | D000327 | 2 | Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management, wildland fire management, for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities; and (2) the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service, wildland fire management, for emergency rehabilitation, presuppression, and wildfire suppression. | 2025-01-02T17:13:59Z | |
| 106-s-2543 | 106 | s | 2543 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include airplane and rail accidents within the meaning of the term "major disaster". | Emergency Management | 2000-05-11 | 2000-05-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT] | VT | R | J000072 | 1 | Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to revise the definition of major disaster to include airplane or rail accidents. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 106-s-2389 | 106 | s | 2389 | 21st Century Fire and Emergency Services Act of 2000 | Emergency Management | 2000-04-11 | 2000-04-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2531-2532) | Senate | Sen. Roth Jr., William V. [R-DE] | DE | R | R000460 | 0 | 21st Century Fire and Emergency Services Act of 2000 - Establishes within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the Burn Services Grant Program. Authorizes the Director of FEMA to make Program grants to: (1) experienced safety organizations to conduct or augment burn safety programs; (2) hospitals that serve as regional burn centers to conduct acute burn care research; and (3) governmental or nongovernmental entities to provide after-burn treatment and counseling to burn victims.Requires the Director to establish within FEMA a Fire Services Grant Program to award grants to volunteer, paid, and combined volunteer-paid departments that provide fire and emergency medical services.Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use the funds, facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out certain cooperative forestry assistance with respect to rural fire prevention and control. | 2025-08-20T14:20:36Z | |
| 106-hr-4210 | 106 | hr | 4210 | Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000 | Emergency Management | 2000-04-06 | 2000-07-26 | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | House | Rep. Fowler, Tillie [R-FL-4] | FL | R | F000328 | 39 | Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Act) to include snow droughts, acts of terrorism or other catastrophic events within its definition of "major disaster" for purposes of authorized disaster relief.(Sec. 4) Requires the President (current law authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA Director)) to be responsible for carrying out Federal emergency preparedness plans and programs. Includes as a covered hazard a domestic terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction.(Sec. 6) Requires the President to ensure that Federal response plans and programs are adequate to respond to the consequences of terrorism directed against a target in the United States, including weapons of mass destruction. Includes the development of equipment, clothing, and facilities within authorized preparedness measures.(Sec. 7) Repeals provisions of the Act which: (1) allow State preparedness funds to be used to prepare for hazards and for providing emergency assistance in response to hazards; and (2) require the FEMA Director to establish emergency preparedness security regulations.(Sec. 9) Establishes the President's Council on Domestic Preparedness to, among other things: (1) establish Federal policies, objectives, and priorities for enhancing the capabilities of State and local emergency preparedness and response personnel in early detection and warning of and response to all domestic terrorist attacks, including those involving weapons of mass destruction; (2) publish a Domestic Terrorism Preparedness Plan and annual strategy for carrying out such Plan; (3) provide for the creation of a State and local advisory group for the Council; (4) establish voluntary guidelines for State and local preparedness programs; (5) coordinate and oversee the implementation of such Federal policies, objectives, and priorities; and (6) make recommendations to the heads of appropriate Federal departments and agencies with regard to… | 2025-04-07T13:47:06Z | |
| 106-hr-4146 | 106 | hr | 4146 | Help Emergency Responders Operate Act | Emergency Management | 2000-03-30 | 2000-04-12 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 11 | Help Emergency Responders Operate Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture for FY 2001 and 2002 for carrying out provisions authorizing the Secretary to: (1) cooperate with State foresters or equivalent State officials in developing systems and methods for the prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on rural lands and in rural communities that will protect human lives, agricultural crops and livestock, property and other improvements, and natural resources; (2) provide financial, technical, and related assistance to such foresters or officials, and through them to other agencies and individuals, for the prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on non-Federal forest lands and other non- Federal lands; and (3) provide financial, technical, and related assistance to such foresters or officials in cooperative efforts to organize, train, and equip local firefighting forces, including those of Indian tribes or other native groups, to prevent, control, and suppress fires threatening human lives, crops, livestock, farmsteads or other improvements, pastures, orchards, wildlife, rangeland, woodland, and other resources in rural areas.Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), using amounts in an account for the purpose of providing loan guarantees (established under this Act), to guarantee loans to volunteer fire and rescue agencies for the entire principal and interest on the loan for specified volunteer fire and rescue services, including to purchase equipment necessary for proper performance of the agency's duties, to repair, rehabilitate, or otherwise improve the agency's existing facilities, and for carrying out public education programs regarding fire prevention, life safety, and arson. Sets forth loan terms and conditions. Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes appropriations to the Director for FY 2001 and 2002 for making grants directly to local fi… | 2025-08-20T14:18:15Z | |
| 106-hr-4128 | 106 | hr | 4128 | Help Emergency Responders Operate Act | Emergency Management | 2000-03-29 | 2000-04-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 8 | Help Emergency Responders Operate Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture for FY 2001 and 2002 for carrying out provisions authorizing the Secretary to: (1) cooperate with State foresters or equivalent State officials in developing systems and methods for the prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on rural lands and in rural communities that will protect human lives, agricultural crops and livestock, property and other improvements, and natural resources; (2) provide financial, technical, and related assistance to such foresters or officials, and through them to other agencies and individuals, for the prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on non-Federal forest lands and other non- Federal lands; and (3) provide financial, technical, and related assistance to such foresters or officials in cooperative efforts to organize, train, and equip local firefighting forces, including those of Indian tribes or other native groups, to prevent, control, and suppress fires threatening human lives, crops, livestock, farmsteads or other improvements, pastures, orchards, wildlife, rangeland, woodland, and other resources in rural areas.Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), using amounts in an account for the purpose of providing loan guarantees (established under this Act), to guarantee loans to volunteer fire and rescue agencies for the entire principal and interest on the loan for specified volunteer fire and rescue services, including to purchase equipment necessary for proper performance of the agency's duties, to repair, rehabilitate, or otherwise improve the agency's existing facilities, and for carrying out public education programs regarding fire prevention, life safety, and arson. Sets forth loan terms and conditions. Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes appropriations to the Director for FY 2001 and 2002 for making grants directly to local fi… | 2025-08-20T14:18:14Z | |
| 106-s-2216 | 106 | s | 2216 | Federal Emergency Management Agency Buy American Compliance Act | Emergency Management | 2000-03-08 | 2000-03-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1319-1320) | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Federal Emergency Management Agency Buy American Compliance Act - Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to require, as a condition of any financial assistance provided by the Agency on a non-emergency basis for a construction project, that the project use only domestic products (products mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States).Provides authorized waivers of such requirement. Prohibits the application of the authorized waivers with respect to a product of a foreign country that is a signatory country to the Agreement on Government Procurement but that has violated such Agreement by discriminating against a covered U.S. product.Prohibits the Director from imposing any assistance limitation that restricts more stringent State Buy American requirements.Makes a person ineligible to enter into a contract or subcontract for a project carried out with financial assistance made available by the Agency if a U.S. court or agency has determined that such person has affixed a "Made in America" label to any product used in such a project, or otherwise has represented that a product was produced in the United States, when it was not. | 2025-08-20T14:21:01Z | |
| 106-hr-3589 | 106 | hr | 3589 | Federal Emergency Management Agency Buy American Compliance Act | Emergency Management | 2000-02-08 | 2000-02-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-3] | GA | R | C000640 | 2 | Federal Emergency Management Agency Buy American Compliance Act - Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to require, as a condition of any financial assistance provided by such agency on a non-emergency basis for a construction project, that the steel, iron, and manufactured products used in the project be produced in the United States.Provides authorized waivers of such requirement.Makes a person ineligible for any such assistance if such person has intentionally affixed a "Made in America" label to any product used in such a project, or otherwise has represented that a product was produced in the United States, when it was not.Prohibits the application of the authorized waivers with respect to the products of a foreign country that has violated the terms of a valid trade agreement by discriminating in such country against products produced in the United States. | 2025-08-20T14:18:22Z | |
| 106-hr-3479 | 106 | hr | 3479 | Small Business Disaster Assistance Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-11-18 | 1999-11-19 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2513) | House | Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19] | NY | R | K000078 | 4 | Small Business Disaster Assistance Act of 1999 - Authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to small businesses and agricultural enterprises following a natural or other disaster to assist such entities in reopening for business. Limits such grants to $30,000 per entity.Authorizes the SBA to make loans, either directly or through banks or other lending institutions, to small businesses following a natural or other disaster to assist such businesses in reopening. Outlines loan requirements, including requiring businesses operating in flood-prone areas to carry flood insurance. | 2025-08-20T14:18:25Z | |
| 106-s-1941 | 106 | s | 1941 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act | Emergency Management | 1999-11-17 | 2000-09-20 | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 35 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to: (1) make grants on a competitive basis for protecting the health and safety of the public and firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards; and (2) provide assistance for specified fire prevention programs (requiring at least ten percent of grant funds to be used for such programs). Provides a program priority for organizations that focus on prevention of injuries to children from fire.Requires: (1) ten percent non-Federal matching funds; (2) each grantee to report to the Director on grant uses; and (3) grants to be made to a variety of recipients, including paid and volunteer firefighters and urban, suburban, and rural.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 through 2005. | 2025-08-20T14:17:04Z | |
| 106-hr-3303 | 106 | hr | 3303 | Natural Disaster Insurance Solvency Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-11-10 | 1999-12-02 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. | House | Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5] | NC | R | B001135 | 0 | Natural Disaster Insurance Solvency Act of 1999 - Establishes the Natural Disaster Insurance Solvency Fund (NDISF) as a non-Federal agency to hold, invest, and distribute private insurance solvency reserve amounts for rare catastrophic events.Directs the NDISF to establish and maintain a Catastrophe Emergency Solvency Reserve Account as a tax-exempt custodial account to hold all contributions of solvency reserve amounts.Mandates NDISF audits by the Comptroller General.Grants the NDISF off-budget status. | 2025-08-20T14:18:45Z | |
| 106-s-1899 | 106 | s | 1899 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act | Emergency Management | 1999-11-10 | 1999-11-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act - Redesignates the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the Federal Fire and Emergency Management Agency ( FFEMA).Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the FFEMA Director to make grants on a competitive basis for protecting the health and safety of the public and firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards. Requires: (1) ten percent non-Federal matching funds; (2) each grantee to report to the Director on grant uses; and (3) grants to be made to a variety of recipients, including paid and volunteer firefighters and urban, suburban, and rural fire departments.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:18:14Z | |
| 106-s-1906 | 106 | s | 1906 | A bill to amend Public Law 104-307 to extend the expiration date of the authority to sell certain aircraft for use in wildfire suppression, and for other purposes. | Emergency Management | 1999-11-10 | 1999-11-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. | Senate | Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] | NM | D | B000468 | 2 | Amends the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to extend the authority of the Secretary of Defense to sell certain aircraft and aircraft parts to persons for use in wildfire suppression through September 30, 2005. Requires the Secretary to report, not later than March 31, 2005, to specified congressional committees with respect to such authority. | 2025-01-14T17:07:58Z | |
| 106-hres-349 | 106 | hres | 349 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should immediately transmit to Congress the President's recommendations for emergency response actions, including appropriate offsets, to provide relief and assistance to the victims of Hurricane Floyd. | Emergency Management | 1999-11-01 | 1999-11-02 | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. | House | Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11] | NC | R | T000067 | 10 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should immediately transmit to Congress his recommendations for emergency response actions, including appropriate offsets, to provide relief and assistance to the victims of Hurricane Floyd. | 2025-01-02T17:08:11Z | |
| 106-hr-3155 | 106 | hr | 3155 | Firefighter's Local-Federal Assistance for Management of Emergencies Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-10-27 | 2000-04-12 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Gekas, George W. [R-PA-17] | PA | R | G000121 | 13 | Firefighter's Local-Federal Assistance for Management of Emergencies Act of 1999 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States that have an emergency response loan program in effect. Requires States receiving such Federal grants to make grants to assist eligible emergency response organizations in repaying loans they received under the State emergency response loan program. Sets forth certain audit and apportionment requirements with respect to the Federal grant program. Requires the Secretary to make certain set-aside funds available for such grant program. | 2025-08-20T14:20:58Z | |
| 106-s-1786 | 106 | s | 1786 | A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish a grant program for assisting small business and agricultural enterprises in meeting disaster-related expenses. | Emergency Management | 1999-10-26 | 1999-10-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 0 | Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to make grants to assist small businesses and agricultural enterprises adversely affected by a major disaster in meeting disaster-related expenses, including the costs of nonstructural repairs and replacement of noninsured contents and inventory.Provides that a small business or agricultural enterprise receiving a grant shall not use the proceeds of the grant for relocation, but may use such proceeds in a new location, at the President's discretion, for a safety, health, or mitigation purpose.Makes a small business or agricultural enterprise receiving such grant assistance liable to the United States to the extent that assistance duplicates benefits provided to such business or enterprise for the same purpose by another Federal agency. Requires any Federal agency that provides any duplicative assistance to collect an amount equal to the value of that assistance from the recipient in any case in which the head of the agency considers such collection to be in the Government's best interest.Makes a small business or agricultural enterprise eligible for a grant in relation to not more than one major disaster. Limits the maximum grant amount that a small business or agricultural enterprise may receive under this Act to $20,000.Makes such program applicable to any major disaster declared after September 1, 1999, and before the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 106-hr-3109 | 106 | hr | 3109 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish a grant program for assisting small businesses and agricultural enterprises in meeting disaster-related expenses. | Emergency Management | 1999-10-19 | 1999-10-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. Roukema, Marge [R-NJ-5] | NJ | R | R000465 | 22 | Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to make grants for assisting small businesses and agricultural enterprises adversely affected by a major disaster in meeting disaster-related expenses, including the costs of nonstructural repairs and replacement of noninsured contents and inventory.Disallows a small business or agricultural enterprise from using the proceeds of the grant for relocation, although such proceeds may be used for appropriate purposes in a new location, at the President's discretion, for safety, health, or mitigation purposes.Makes a small business or agricultural enterprise receiving assistance liable to the United States to the extent that such assistance duplicated benefits provided to such business or enterprise for the same purpose from another Federal agency. Requires any Federal agency that provides any duplicative assistance to collect an amount equal to the value of such duplicative assistance from the recipient when the head of such agency considers it to be in the Federal Government's best interest.Makes any small business or agricultural enterprise ineligible for assistance in relation to more than one major disaster and limits the maximum aggregate of such assistance to such small business or agricultural enterprise to $20,000 with respect to such disaster.Permits the President to only make a grant during the 90-day period beginning on the date of declaration of a major disaster.Makes the amendments made by this Act applicable to any major disaster declared after September 1, 1999, and before the date of the enactment of this Act. Provides that, for purposes of the maximum limit on assistance, the 90-day time period for such disaster shall begin on such date of enactment. | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z | |
| 106-s-1691 | 106 | s | 1691 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-10-05 | 2000-05-16 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 550. | Senate | Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] | OK | R | I000024 | 7 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 - Title I: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Act) to authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program of technical and financial assistance to States and local governments to implement predisaster hazard mitigation activities to reduce injuries and loss of life and property damage and destruction, including damage to critical infrastructures and facilities. Authorizes the Director to provide financial assistance from the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund (established under this Act) to each State and local government that has identified all natural disaster hazards in its jurisdiction and has demonstrated its ability to form effective public-private disaster hazard mitigation partnerships, to be used principally to implement the predisaster hazard mitigation measures contained in proposals approved by the Director. Authorizes such assistance to be used to: (1) support effective public-private partnerships; (2) ensure that new development and construction is disaster resistant; or (3) improve the assessment of a community's natural hazards vulnerabilities or establish a community's mitigation priorities.Authorizes the Director to establish the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund.(Sec. 103) Directs the President to designate as a natural disaster mitigation zone each area in which commonly recurring natural hazards (floods, hurricanes and severe winds, seismic events) create a substantial likelihood of disasters that may require assistance under the Act. Requires flood zones identified under the national flood insurance program that are also within a wind zone identified by the American Society of Civil Engineers that has commonly recurring winds of over 90 miles per hour to be so designated as such zones.Requires the President to direct all appropriate Federal agencies that gather information relating to natural resources and natural and technological haz… | 2025-04-07T13:42:50Z | |
| 106-s-1639 | 106 | s | 1639 | Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 2000 | Emergency Management | 1999-09-24 | 2000-10-19 | Held at the desk. | Senate | Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN] | TN | R | F000439 | 4 | Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 2000 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (the Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 2001 through 2003 for: (1) the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to carry out specified activities under the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program; (2) the Secretary of the Interior for responsibilities assigned to the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with specified funds earmarked for the Global Seismic Network, the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee, and for carrying out a competitive, peer-reviewed program under which FEMA awards grants to or enters into cooperative agreements with State and local governments and persons or entities from the academic community and the private sector; (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF) for engineering research and geosciences research; and (4) the National Institute of Standards and Technology.Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2001 through 2003 for a USGS program to develop a prototype real-time seismic warning system.(Sec. 3) Repeals provisions of the Act concerning: (1) non-Federal cost sharing for certain supplemental funds; (2) the authorization of appropriations in prior fiscal years for certain required adjustments in employee salaries and benefits; and (3) the availability of FY 1991-1993 funding.(Sec. 4) Requires the USGS Director to establish and operate an Advanced National Seismic Research and Monitoring System to organize, modernize, and standardize U.S. national, regional, and urban seismic monitoring systems. Requires such Director to transmit to Congress a five-year management plan for establishing and operating the System. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 through 2006, and additional amounts for FY 2002 and 2003 for System operation.(Sec. 5) Requires the NSF Director to establish the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation that will upgrade, link, and integrate a system of geographically distributed expe… | 2025-04-07T13:46:56Z | |
| 106-s-1610 | 106 | s | 1610 | A bill to authorize additional emergency disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Dennis and Hurricane Floyd. | Emergency Management | 1999-09-21 | 1999-09-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC] | NC | D | E000286 | 1 | Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for FY 2000 for expenses relating to the provision of disaster relief for agricultural producers affected by Hurricane Floyd and for other Hurricane Floyd-related relief under: (1) the flooded land reserve program; (2) the Wetlands Reserve Program; (3) the Environmental Quality Incentives Program; (4) the Emergency Conservation Program; (5) the rural housing insurance fund; (6) the program to provide low income housing repair grants under the Housing Act of 1949; and (7) any other program that provides appropriate disaster relief, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the Department of Commerce for FY 2000 for expenses of providing emergency disaster assistance to persons or entities that have incurred losses from a commercial fishery failure due to Hurricane Floyd; and (2) the Federal Emergency Management Agency for FY 2000 for emergency expenses resulting from Hurricane Floyd.Provides that the appropriation of any amount authorized under this Act shall be: (1) designated as emergency spending in accordance with the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act); and (2) made available on an emergency basis. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 106-hr-2728 | 106 | hr | 2728 | Two Floods and You Are Out of the Taxpayers' Pocket Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-08-05 | 1999-09-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. | House | Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1] | NE | R | B000403 | 7 | Two Floods and You Are Out of the Taxpayers' Pocket Act of 1999 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in awarding grants for mitigation activities, to give priority to properties for which repetitive flood insurance claim payments have been made (repetitive claim properties). Authorizes the Director to waive mitigation assistance limits when the State or community has repetitive claim properties and such waiver is cost-effective and in the best interests of the National Flood Insurance Fund.Increases amounts credited to the National Flood Mitigation Fund from the National Flood Insurance Fund, such amounts to be used only for repetitive claim properties.Extends through FY 2004 the authority to enter into flood insurance contracts and the authorization of appropriations for the national flood insurance program.Provides chargeable national flood insurance premium rates for: (1) repetitive claim properties; and (2) certain coastal and river properties leased from the Government. Authorizes annual premium increases with respect to such properties.Amends the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 to prohibit Federal disaster relief assistance from being used for repair, replacement, or restoration of any property in the area for which: (1) repetitive claim payments have been made; and (2) Federal mitigation assistance has been offered to, but refused by, the property owner.Authorizes the Director to provide for funding for mitigation actions that reduce flood damages to repetitive claim properties, under certain conditions. Provides funding for such assistance from the National Flood Insurance Fund. | 2025-08-20T14:19:57Z | |
| 106-s-1361 | 106 | s | 1361 | Natural Disaster Protection and Insurance Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-07-13 | 2000-04-13 | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-1109. | Senate | Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] | AK | R | S000888 | 16 | Natural Disaster Protection and Insurance Act of 1999 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (the Act) to provide for an expanded Federal program of hazard mitigation, relief, and natural disaster insurance. (Sec. 6) Requires each State to either: (1) develop a statewide strategic mitigation plan (plan) to reduce hazards of future natural disasters; or (2) designate a plan in effect at the time as the applicable plan. Outlines required plan elements, including: (1) ensuring that structures in hazard-prone areas are built with hazard mitigation techniques; and (2) improving the capabilities of emergency response teams to natural disasters. Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to review and approve a plan if it contains the required elements. Requires such plans to be submitted to the Director within two years after enactment of this Act. Outlines procedures regarding plan implementation, plan updates, and noncompliance with plan requirements (including an opportunity to cure). Denies hazard mitigation funds for any State which is still non-compliant 180 days after receiving from the Director notification of noncompliance. Authorizes the Director to allocate funds to States from the Natural Disaster Protection Fund, according to a pro rata formula based on reinsurance coverage premiums. Requires States to use allocated funds to support specified natural disaster hazard mitigation activities. Requires the Director, at least once every three years, to evaluate each State's progress in implementing its plan, and to base future allotments on such evaluation. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study to identify all Federal programs that provide assistance for public facilities and lifelines; and (2) report to Congress on study results. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to grant loans to a private, non-governmental, and nonprofit membership corporation to be known as the Natural Disaster Insurance Corporation. Requir… | 2025-08-20T14:20:44Z | |
| 106-hr-1839 | 106 | hr | 1839 | Access to Thermal Imaging Cameras Act | Emergency Management | 1999-05-18 | 1999-05-18 | Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. | House | Rep. Franks, Bob [R-NJ-7] | NJ | R | F000349 | 45 | Access to Thermal Imaging Cameras Act - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make competitive grants to fire departments for the purpose of acquiring thermal imaging cameras. Requires the non-Federal share of acquisition costs to be 33 percent.Authorizes appropriations.Declares the sense of Congress that any funds appropriated to FEMA for this purpose should be offset with corresponding reductions in funds appropriated to carry out other Federal programs. | 2025-08-20T14:20:25Z | |
| 106-hr-1711 | 106 | hr | 1711 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-05-05 | 1999-05-06 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Emergency Management. | House | Rep. Shuster, Bud [R-PA-9] | PA | R | S000394 | 3 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Predisaster Hazards Mitigation Title II: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Assistance Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 - Title I: Predisaster Hazards Mitigation - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program of technical and financial assistance to States and local governments that implement predisaster mitigation measures to reduce injuries and loss of life and property damage and destruction, including damage to their critical public infrastructure and facilities. Requires the Director to provide financial assistance from the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund (established under this Act) to each State or local government that has identified all natural disaster hazards in its jurisdiction and has demonstrated its ability to form effective public-private disaster mitigation, to be used: (1) principally to implement the predisaster hazard mitigation measures contained in proposals approved by the Director; (2) to support effective public- private partnerships; (3) to ensure that new community growth and construction is disaster resistant; and (4) to improve the assessment of a community's natural hazards vulnerabilities or set a community's mitigation priorities. Requires the Director to take into account when establishing priorities for predisaster mitigation grants: (1) the level and nature of the risks to be mitigated; (2) grantee commitment to reduce damages from future disasters; and (3) commitment by the State or local government to support ongoing non-Federal support for the mitigation measures to be undertaken. Limits grant amounts to 75 percent of the total costs of the mitigation proposal(s) approved by the Director. (Sec. 103) Increases from 15 to 20 percent the maximum contribution for hazard mitigation costs with respect to a major disaster declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act after the enactment date of this Act. Title II: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation… | 2025-08-20T14:17:53Z | |
| 106-hr-1550 | 106 | hr | 1550 | Fire Administration Authorization Act of 2000 | Emergency Management | 1999-04-26 | 2000-11-13 | Became Public Law No: 106-503. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 1 | Title I: United States Fire Administration - Fire Administration Authorization Act of 2000 - Amends the Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 2001 through 2003, earmarking specified amounts for: (1) research activities; (2) contracts or grants to non-Federal entities for data analysis, including general fire profiles and special fire analyses and report projects; and (3) anti-terrorism training, including associated curriculum development for fire and emergency services personnel. Prohibits the obligation of authorized funds for FY 2002 unless the Administrator of the U.S. Fire Administration certifies to specified congressional committees that the obligation is consistent with the strategic plan transmitted pursuant to this Act.(Sec. 103) Requires the Administrator to report to specified congressional committees: (1) a five-year strategic plan of program activities for the Administration; and (2) the Administration's research agenda (to be used in the preparation of the strategic plan), as well as a plan for implementing such agenda. Specifies the contents of the strategic plan and the report.(Sec. 105) Directs the Administrator to make publicly available, including through the Internet, information on procedures for: (1) acquiring surplus and excess Federal equipment or property that may be useful to State and local fire, emergency, and hazardous material handling service providers; and (2) establishing cooperative agreements between State and local fire and emergency services and Federal facilities in their region relating to the provision of fire and emergency services.(Sec. 107) Requires the Administrator to: (1) assess and report to Congress on the need for additional capabilities for Federal counterterrorism training of emergency response personnel.(Sec. 108) Earmarks funds for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute fire safety research program.(Sec. 109) Requires the Administrator to make available through the Internet home page of the U.S. Fire Administration a brief sum… | 2025-04-07T13:46:56Z | |
| 106-hr-1297 | 106 | hr | 1297 | Repetitive Flood Loss Reduction Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-03-25 | 1999-04-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. | House | Rep. Bentsen, Ken [D-TX-25] | TX | D | B000400 | 0 | Repetitive Flood Loss Reduction Act of 1999 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to carry out a program to mitigate repetitive flood losses to structures by: (1) purchasing structures; and (2) making grants to States, communities, and local flood management agencies for eligible mitigation activities that meet specified conditions. Includes among eligible mitigation activities: (1) elevation, relocation, demolition, or floodproofing of structures located in areas having special flood hazards or other areas of flood risk; and (2) minor physical mitigation efforts that do not duplicate the flood prevention activities of other Federal agencies, States, communities, or local flood management agencies and that lessen the frequency or severity of flooding and decrease predicted flood damages, excluding major flood control projects unless the Director specifically determines that such projects are the most cost-effective mitigation activities for protecting the National Flood Insurance Fund. Sets forth grant application requirements. Prohibits the Director from providing a grant: (1) in an amount exceeding 75 percent of the total cost of the mitigation activities to be financed using such grant; and (2) for any such activities unless the State, community, or local flood management agency that receives the grant certifies, as the Director shall require, that at least 25 percent of the total cost of such activities will be provided from non-Federal sources. Requires the Director, upon determining that an insured structure is a repetitive substantial flood loss structure, to offer to purchase the structure at not greater than 125 percent of its fair market value at the time of the offer. Directs that any such offer: (1) explicitly state that the offer is contingent upon the availability of specified funds for such purchase; and (2) be held open, and not be revocable, during the period that the structure is covered by flood insurance. Requires … | 2025-08-20T14:17:51Z | |
| 106-hr-1184 | 106 | hr | 1184 | Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-03-18 | 1999-04-22 | Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 1 | Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 1999 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for earthquake hazards reduction for FY 2000 and 2001. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 to the Secretary of the Interior for carrying out, through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), responsibilities assigned under the Act, with specified amounts available for the Global Seismic Network and the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee. Makes specified amounts available for FY 2000 and 2001 for a related USGS grant program. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 for a USGS program to develop a prototype real-time seismic warning system. Authorizes appropriations under the Act for FY 2000 and 2001 for National Science Foundation (NSF) engineering and geosciences research and for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Repeals a provision regarding non-Federal cost sharing for supplemental funds. Requires the USGS Director to: (1) establish an Advanced National Seismic Research and Monitoring System to modernize, standardize, and stabilize the national, regional, and urban seismic monitoring systems in the United States into a coordinated system; and (2) transmit a five-year management plan for the System to Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the NSF Director to establish a Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation that will upgrade, link, and integrate a system of geographically distributed experimental facilities for earthquake engineering testing of full-sized structures and their components and partial-scale physical models. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the USGS Director to establish a Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee. Requires the FEMA Director to report to Congress on elements of the earthquake hazards reduction program that specifically address the needs of at-risk populations, including the elderly, persons with dis… | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z | |
| 106-hr-1168 | 106 | hr | 1168 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act | Emergency Management | 1999-03-17 | 2000-04-12 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8] | NJ | D | P000096 | 285 | Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement (FIRE) Act - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make grants on a competitive basis to a variety of fire departments for any of a number of specified purposes, including: (1) hiring additional firefighting personnel; (2) training them; (3) funding creation of rapid intervention teams to protect firefighting personnel at the scenes of fires and other emergencies; (4) certifying fire inspectors; (5) establishing wellness and fitness programs for firefighting personnel; (6) funding emergency medical services; (7) acquiring additional firefighting vehicles and equipment, including personal protective equipment required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (8) modifying fire stations, fire training facilities, and other facilities; (9) enforcing fire codes; (10) funding fire prevention programs; and (11) educating the public about arson prevention and detection.Requires the FEMA Director to establish an office to set specific criteria for the selection of grant recipients and administer the grants.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:19:52Z | |
| 106-s-583 | 106 | s | 583 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-03-10 | 1999-03-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI] | RI | R | C000269 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Title II: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Assistance Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 - Title I: Predisaster Hazards Mitigation - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program of technical and financial assistance to States and local governments that implement predisaster mitigation measures to reduce injuries and loss of life and property damage and destruction, including damage to their critical public infrastructure and facilities. Requires the Director to provide financial assistance from the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund (established under this Act) to each State or local government that has identified all natural disaster hazards in its jurisdiction and has demonstrated its ability to form effective public-private disaster mitigation, to be used: (1) principally to implement the predisaster hazard mitigation measures contained in proposals approved by the Director; (2) to support effective public- private partnerships; (3) to ensure that new community growth and construction is disaster resistant; and (4) to improve the assessment of a community's natural hazards vulnerabilities or set a community's mitigation priorities. Requires the Director to take into account when establishing priorities for predisaster mitigation grants: (1) the level and nature of the risks to be mitigated; (2) grantee commitment to reduce damages from future disaster; and (3) commitment by the State or local government to support ongoing non-Federal support for the mitigation measures to be undertaken. Limits grant amounts to 75 percent of the total costs of the mitigation proposal(s) approved by the Director. (Sec. 103) Increases from 15 to 20 percent the maximum contribution for hazard mitigation costs with respect to a major disaster declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act after the enactment date of this Act. Title II: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation A… | 2025-08-20T14:18:29Z | |
| 106-hr-707 | 106 | hr | 707 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 | Emergency Management | 1999-02-11 | 2000-10-30 | Became Public Law No: 106-390. | House | Rep. Fowler, Tillie [R-FL-4] | FL | R | F000328 | 8 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 - Title I: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Act) to authorize the President to establish a program of technical and financial assistance to States and local governments to assist in the implementation of pre-disaster hazard mitigation measures that are cost-effective and are designed to reduce injuries, loss of life, and property damage and destruction, including damage to critical services and facilities under the jurisdiction of the States or local governments. Authorizes the President to provide technical and financial assistance from the National Predisaster Mitigation Fund (established under this Act) to each State and local government that has identified all natural disaster hazards in its jurisdiction and has demonstrated its ability to form effective public-private disaster hazard mitigation partnerships.Directs that such assistance be used by States and local governments principally to implement pre-disaster hazard mitigation measures that are cost-effective and that are described in proposals approved by the President under this title. Authorizes such assistance to be used to: (1) support effective public-private partnerships; (2) improve the assessment of a community's natural hazards vulnerabilities; or (3) establish a community's mitigation priorities.Requires the President, in determining whether to provide technical and financial assistance to a State or local government, to take into account: (1) the extent and nature of the hazards to be mitigated; (2) the degree of commitment of the State or local government to reduce damages from future natural disasters; (3) the degree of commitment by the State or local government to support ongoing non-Federal support for the hazard mitigation measures to be carried out using the assistance; (4) the extent to which the hazard mitigation measures carried out contribute to the mitigation goals and priorities established by the State; (5) the extent to… | 2025-04-07T13:47:06Z | |
| 106-hr-533 | 106 | hr | 533 | Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-02-03 | 1999-04-06 | See H.R.707. | House | Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-23] | NY | R | B000586 | 1 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Title II: Streamlining and Cost Reduction Title III: Miscellaneous Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 - Title I: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Act) to require a State, in submitting a disaster preparedness and prevention program plan prior to receiving assistance under such Act, to set forth a comprehensive and detailed State program for mitigating against emergencies and major disasters, including provisions for prioritizing mitigation measures. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the President to make grants for the costs of the development and application of floodplain mapping technologies that can be used by Federal, State, and local governments and that will likely result in substantial savings over current floodplain mapping methods. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the President to establish a program to provide financial assistance to States and local governments for undertaking predisaster hazard mitigation activities that are cost effective and substantially reduce the risk of future damage, hardship, or suffering from a major disaster. Provides, with respect to such assistance program, for: (1) minimum and maximum per-State allocation of funds; (2) criteria for granting such assistance and determining appropriate amounts; (3) State Governor recommendations of no less than five local governments to receive such assistance; (4) a requirement that at least ten percent of the amount provided in a fiscal year be furnished for activities in communities of 3,000 or fewer individuals that are economically disadvantaged; (5) a Federal cost-share limit (with a higher authorized Federal share for mitigation activities in small impoverished communities); (6) an authorization of appropriations for FY 1998 through 2000; and (7) a report from the President to the Congress evaluating implementation efforts and on a process for transferring to capable States greater responsibility for adminis… | 2025-08-20T14:18:06Z | |
| 106-hr-481 | 106 | hr | 481 | Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption and Hurricane Hazards Insurance Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-02-02 | 1999-04-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E822) | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, and Hurricane Hazards Insurance Act of 1999 - Title I: Participation by States in Adoption of Hazard Reduction Measures - Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA Director) to identify earthquake-prone, volcanic eruption-prone, and hurricane-prone States and areas.Establishes the Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, and Hurricane Loss Mitigation Advisory Committee.Requires development of loss-reduction criteria for State and local land use and management ordinances, building codes, and other measures.Requires that a percentage of the annual hurricane, earthquake, and volcanic eruption insurance and excess reinsurance premiums collected under the Primary Insurance program be deposited in a Self-Sustaining Mitigation Fund to support specified hazard reduction activities.Provides State assistance for development and implementation of mitigation plans.Prohibits making, increasing, extending, or renewing any federally-related mortgage loan secured by: (1) residential property in an earthquake-prone, volcanic eruption-prone, or hurricane-prone State unless the property is covered by earthquake and volcanic eruption insurance coverage under this Act or equivalent private insurance; or (2) improved real estate or a mobile home located in an earthquake-prone or volcanic eruption-prone State if the State is not in compliance with the loss-reduction criteria of this Act and the property does not meet minimum mitigation criteria.Title II: Primary Insurance Program - Requires the FEMA Director to establish a Primary Insurance Program (Program) to provide national coverage for residential property (and related personal property) losses in earthquake-prone, volcanic eruption-prone, or hurricane-prone States.Establishes: (1) the Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, and Hurricane Insurance and Reinsurance Advisory Committee; and (2) the Residential Property Insurance Fund in the Treasury.Title III: National Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, and Hurricane Excess Loss Reinsurance Progra… | 2025-08-20T14:17:24Z | |
| 106-s-221 | 106 | s | 221 | Disaster Victims Crime Prevention Act of 1999 | Emergency Management | 1999-01-19 | 1999-01-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 1 | Disaster Victims Crime Prevention Act of 1999 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Attorney General, following the declaration of a major disaster by the President to: (1) consult with the appropriate U.S. Attorney and State and local law enforcement officials to determine the extent to which victims of the disaster are being further victimized by fraudulent or otherwise unscrupulous activities of suppliers offering consumer goods and services for the cleanup, repair, and other recovery from the effects of the disaster (cleanup); and (2) if it appears that resources of such officials are insufficient, establish an anti-fraud task force to quickly and adequately investigate and prosecute the activities. Sets penalties to be imposed against: (1) any supplier that, during the 180 days following declaration of a major disaster, obtains anything of value through false pretenses or fraudulent conduct in connection with an agreement to provide a consumer good or service for the cleanup; (2) any person that obtains through false pretenses any form of Government assistance for the cleanup; and (3) any supplier that provides or offers to provide during such period any consumer good or service at an unconscionably excessive price, based on a specified formula (and authorizes actions by victims and by State attorneys general for relief). Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to: (1) develop public information materials to assist victims of major disasters in detecting and avoiding unscrupulous suppliers; and (2) provide for the distribution of such materials to the victims of each major disaster as soon as practicable after the President's declaration of the existence of the disaster. Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and, if necessary, amend the sentencing guidelines to make the commission of specified offenses in connection with the provision of a consumer good or service for such cleanup an aggravating factor that may… | 2025-08-20T14:20:29Z | |
| 106-hr-283 | 106 | hr | 283 | To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to report to Congress on methods and procedures to accelerate the provision of Federal disaster assistance to agricultural communities. | Emergency Management | 1999-01-06 | 1999-04-06 | See H.R.707. | House | Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-22] | NY | R | S001149 | 0 | Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to report on methods and procedures to accelerate provision of Federal disaster assistance to agricultural communities. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z |
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