Title: Wildfire Mitigation Assistance Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Wildfire Mitigation Assistance Act
This bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President, whether or not a major disaster is declared, to provide hazard mitigation assistance in any area or related area affected by a fire for which fire management assistance was provided under such Act. The President may establish a minimum amount of hazard mitigation assistance to be provided for a wildfire or fire complex.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shall submit an annual report on projects carried out, and funding provided, pursuant to this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1932 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1932

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
 Assistance Act to provide for certain wildfire mitigation assistance.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2017

  Mr. Bennet (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Tester, Mr. Risch, and Mr. 
Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
     to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
 Assistance Act to provide for certain wildfire mitigation assistance.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wildfire Mitigation Assistance 
Act''.

SEC. 2. WILDFIRE MITIGATION ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5187) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Hazard Mitigation Assistance.--
            ``(1) In general.--Whether or not a major disaster is 
        declared, the President may provide hazard mitigation 
        assistance in accordance with section 404 in any area or 
        related area affected by a fire for which assistance was 
        provided under this section.
            ``(2) Minimum amount.--Notwithstanding section 404(a), the 
        President may establish a minimum amount of hazard mitigation 
        assistance to be provided for a wildfire or fire complex under 
        this subsection.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 404(a) (42 U.S.C. 5170c(a))--
                    (A) by inserting before the first period ``, or any 
                area in which assistance was provided under section 
                420''; and
                    (B) in the third sentence, by inserting ``or event 
                under section 420'' after ``major disaster'' each place 
                that term appears; and
            (2) in section 322(e)(1) (42 U.S.C. 5165(e)(1)), by 
        inserting ``or event under section 420'' after ``major 
        disaster'' each place that term appears.
    (c) Reporting Requirement.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall submit to the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, 
and the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives a report containing a summary of any projects carried 
out, and any funding provided to those projects, under subsection (d) 
of section 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5187) (as amended by section 2(a)(2)).
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