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                                                       Calendar No. 209
109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1684

 To clarify which expenses relating to emergency shelters for Katrina 
           Survivors are eligible for Federal reimbursement.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 12, 2005

 Mrs. Hutchison (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following 
                  bill; which was read the first time

                           September 13, 2005

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 To clarify which expenses relating to emergency shelters for Katrina 
           Survivors are eligible for Federal reimbursement.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXPENSES ELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT.

    (a) Definitions.--
            (1) Disaster period.--The term ``disaster period'' means, 
        with respect to any State that includes an area for which a 
        major disaster has been declared in accordance with section 401 
        of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) as a result of Hurricane 
        Katrina, the period beginning on the earliest date on which any 
        area of the State was so declared and ending on the latest date 
        for which any such declaration of an area of the State 
        terminates.
            (2) Katrina survivor.--The term ``Katrina Survivor'' means 
        an individual who--
                    (A) resides in an area for which a major disaster 
                has been declared in accordance with 401 of the Robert 
                T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
                Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) as a result of Hurricane Katrina; 
                or
                    (B) resided in an area described in subparagraph 
                (A) during the 7 days immediately preceding the 
                declaration of a major disaster described in 
                subparagraph (A).
            (3) Major disaster.--The term ``major disaster'' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford 
        Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122).
    (b) Expenses Eligible for Reimbursement.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, subject to subsection (c), the President shall 
reimburse a State or local government in which an emergency shelter for 
Katrina Survivors is operating for expenses incurred by the State or 
local government resulting from the operation of the shelter (such as 
overtime wages paid to police officers to ensure the provision of 
adequate coverage to portions of the State or locality other than the 
emergency shelter), regardless of whether the expenses were incurred 
for goods or services provided at the location of the emergency 
shelter.
    (c) Period of Applicability.--This section and the authority 
provided by this section apply only to expenses incurred as a result of 
the operation of an emergency shelter for Katrina Survivors from a 
State during the disaster period of the State.
                                                       Calendar No. 209

109th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1684

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To clarify which expenses relating to emergency shelters for Katrina 
           Survivors are eligible for Federal reimbursement.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 13, 2005

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar`