Title: POLAR Response Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Providing Our Law Enforcement with Adequate Resources for a Response Act or the POLAR Response Act
This bill includes a polar vortex as a major disaster for which a declaration of a state of emergency can be made and provides a definition for a disaster-related emergency for purposes of the Department of Defense (DOD) excess personal property program (therefore authorizing DOD to transfer certain personal property for a polar vortex emergency).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6306 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6306

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for a definition of 
   ``disaster-related emergency'' for purposes of the Department of 
   Defense excess personal property program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2021

Mr. Jackson (for himself, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
 Texas, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. 
  Sessions, and Mr. Taylor) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the 
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for a definition of 
   ``disaster-related emergency'' for purposes of the Department of 
   Defense excess personal property program, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Providing Our Law Enforcement with 
Adequate Resources for a Response Act'' or the ``POLAR Response Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF DISASTER-RELATED EMERGENCY UNDER DEPARTMENT OF 
              DEFENSE EXCESS PERSONAL PROPERTY PROGRAM.

    (a) Definition of Disaster-Related Emergency.--Subsection (g) of 
section 2576a of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Controlled 
        Property'' and inserting ``Definitions'';
            (2) by striking ``In this section,'' and inserting ``In 
        this section:'';
            (3) by redesignating the text beginning with ``the term'' 
        and ending with ``document.'' as paragraph (1) and adjusting 
        the margins accordingly;
            (4) in paragraph (1), as so redesignated, by striking ``the 
        term'' and inserting ``The term''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) The term `disaster-related emergency' means any event 
        with respect to which the President declares an emergency or 
        major disaster pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
        Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et 
        seq.).''.
    (b) Inclusion of Polar Vortex in Definition of Major Disaster.--
Section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)) is amended by inserting ``, polar 
vortex'' after ``mudslide''.
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