FRAME Act

Bill: 116-hr-5310
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Waltz, Michael [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2019-12-05
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Defense

Disaster relief and insurance

First responders and emergency personnel
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>First Responder Access to Mobile Exchanges Act or the FRAME Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Defense to allow an emergency response provider (e.g., law enforcement or emergency medical personnel) to use a mobile commissary or exchange store deployed to an area covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5310 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 5, 2019 Mr. Waltz (for himself and Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to allow emergency response providers to use mobile commissaries or exchange stores deployed to an area covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the First Responder Access to Mobile Exchanges Act or FRAME Act . 2. Use by emergency response providers of mobile commissaries or exchange stores deployed to areas covered by a declaration of major disaster or emergency Section 1146 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d) Emergency response providers during a declared major disaster or emergency The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to allow an emergency response provider (as that term is defined in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–296 ; 6 U.S.C. 101 )) to use a mobile commissary or exchange store deployed to an area covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170 ). .