Title: A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Ensuring Relief for Americans Impacted by Economic and Natural Disasters Act, 2020
This bill provides $86.6 billion in FY2020 supplemental appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the Disaster Relief Fund. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4618 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 549
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4618

 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for 
   the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2020

Mr. Portman (for himself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
                     which was read the first time

                           September 21, 2020

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for 
   the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes, namely:

                    DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

            PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                          disaster relief fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For an additional amount for ``Disaster Relief Fund'' 
$86,600,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
the amount provided herein is designated by the Congress as being for 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
901(b)(2)(A)(i)).
    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Relief for Americans 
Impacted by Economic and Natural Disasters Act, 2020''.
                                                       Calendar No. 549

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 4618

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for 
   the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 21, 2020

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar