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‘‘(B) The responsibilities of the Office of the Special 
Inspector General for Relief and Reconstruction with re-
spect to Hurricane Katrina recovery activities shall termi-
nate 2 years after the date of enactment of the Special 
Inspector General for Relief and Reconstruction Act of 
2005. 
‘‘(2) The Office of the Special Inspector General for 
Relief and Reconstruction shall terminate on the later date 
occurring under subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph 
(1).’’. 
SEC. 803. GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE REPORT. 
The General Accountability Office shall track spend-
ing of money appropriated in each Hurricane Katrina 
emergency supplemental appropriations and report to 
Congress quarterly on how that money is spent. 
SEC. 804. CREATING FEDERAL CRIME OF INTERFERING 
WITH FEDERAL DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 65 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘§ 1370. Interference with Federal disaster relief ef-
forts 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITED CONDUCT.—Whoever, during a 
presidentially-declared major disaster or emergency—
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‘‘(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 
intimidates, or interferes with any officer or em-
ployee of the United States or of any agency in any 
branch of the United States Government (including 
any member of the uniformed services) while such 
officer or employee is engaged in or on account of 
the performance of official duties relating to, or in 
support of recovery from, the presidentially-declared 
disaster or emergency, or any person assisting such 
an officer or employee in the performance of such 
duties or on account of that assistance; or 
‘‘(2) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 
intimidates, or interferes with any person providing 
services in support of disaster relief efforts and 
working in coordination with a Federal coordinating 
officer appointed pursuant to section 302, Public 
Law 98–288 (42 U.S.C. 5143), shall, except as pro-
vided in subsection (b) of this section, be fined 
under this title or imprisoned not more than two 
years, or both. 
‘‘(b) ENHANCED PENALTY.—Whoever, in the com-
mission of and in relation to any act described in sub-
section (a) of this section, carries, possesses or uses a 
deadly or dangerous weapon or inflicts serious bodily in-
jury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
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than 15 years or both, or, if the death of any person re-
sults, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 86 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
item: 
‘‘1370. Interference with Federal disaster relief efforts.’’. 
SEC. 805. PENALTIES FOR FRAUD. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Whoever knowingly makes, or 
causes to be made by another, a false statement or rep-
resentation of a material fact, or knowingly has failed, or 
caused another to fail, to disclose a material fact, and as 
a result of such false statement or representation or of 
such nondisclosure such individual has received an amount 
of assistance from the Federal Government under this Act 
to which he was not entitled, such individual— 
(1) shall be ineligible for further assistance 
under this Act; and 
(2) shall be subject to prosecution under section 
1370 of title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 806. PROTECTING OF VOLUNTEERS. 
(a) QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FROM SUIT.—Any person 
or entity (including any Indian Tribe) that, in response 
to harm caused by Hurricane Katrina of 2005, voluntarily, 
in good faith, and without a preexisting duty or expecta-
tion of compensation, renders aid (including medical treat-
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ment and rescue assistance) to any individual, shall not 
be liable for any injury (including personal injury, prop-
erty damage or loss, and death) arising out of or resulting 
from that aid that was not caused by— 
(1) willful, wanton, reckless or criminal conduct 
of that person or entity; or 
(2) conduct of that person or entity that con-
stitutes a violation of a Federal or State civil rights 
law. 
(b) PREEMPTION.—This section preempts the laws of 
a State to the extent such laws are inconsistent with this 
section, except that this section shall not preempt any 
State law that provides additional protection from liability 
relating to volunteers. 
SEC. 807. LEAVE TRANSFER PROGRAM IN DISASTERS AND 
EMERGENCIES. 
Section 6391 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (g); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) After consultation with the Administrative Office 
of the United States Courts, the Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall provide for the participation of employees
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in the judicial branch in any emergency leave transfer pro-
gram under this section.’’. 
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