STORM Aid for Disasters Act

Bill: 116-hr-4376
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2019-09-18
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Appropriations

Congressional oversight

Disaster relief and insurance

Emergency planning and evacuation

Executive agency funding and structure

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Legislative rules and procedure

Members of Congress

Natural disasters

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-09-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Streamlining The Official Response and Monetary Aid for Disasters Act or the STORM Aid for Disasters Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires any federal agency that sustained specified damage as a result of a presidentially-declared major disaster to submit to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget a report that describes the damage incurred, an estimate of the cost of such damage, and any effects to operations if the agency does not receive additional resources.</p> <p><i>Specified damage</i> is defined as</p> <ul> <li>damage to federal facilities and property; </li> <li> negative impacts on federal operations, including damage to equipment, loss of program support, and any other calculable costs, as well as costs necessary to resume operations; and </li> <li> loss of services, totaling a cost exceeding $500,000, that would have been provided by the agency but for the disaster. </li> </ul> <p>The bill provides for expedited consideration of a bill making supplemental appropriations to agencies in response to such report.</p> <ul> </ul>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4376 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2019 Mr. Dunn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure , and in addition to the Committee on Rules , 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 A BILL To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to require Federal agencies impacted by a major disaster to submit to Congress a report on the estimated cost of the impact, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Streamlining The Official Response and Monetary Aid for Disasters Act or the STORM Aid for Disasters Act . 2. Estimated cost of impact to Federal agencies Section 430 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5189h ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) Estimated cost of impact on Federal agencies (1) Initial report Not later than 30 days after the date on which the President declares a major disaster under section 401, any Federal agency that sustained specified damage as a result of the disaster shall submit to the appropriate entities a report that contains— (A) a description of the specified damage incurred by the agency; (B) an estimate of the cost of such specified damage; and (C) a description of any effects to agency operations if the agency does not receive additional resources. (2) Final report Not later than 60 days after such date, a Federal agency that submitted an initial report under paragraph (1) shall update such initial report and submit to the appropriate entities a final report containing the information described in such paragraph. (3) Definitions In this subsection: (A) Appropriate entities The term appropriate entities means the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Office of Management and Budget, and any Member of Congress representing a location impacted by the disaster. (B) Specified damage The term specified damage means— (i) damage to Federal facilities and property; (ii) negative impacts on Federal operations, including damage to equipment, loss of program support, and any other calculable costs, as well as costs necessary to resume operations; and (iii) loss of services, totaling a cost exceeding $500,000, that would have been provided by the agency but for the disaster. . 3. Expedited consideration of bill making supplemental appropriations to agencies in response to report on specified damage (a) Expedited consideration (1) In general The provisions of section 2908 (other than subsection (a)) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 ( 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) shall apply to the consideration of a bill described in subsection (b) in the same manner as such provisions apply to a joint resolution described in section 2908(a) of such Act. (2) Special rules For purposes of applying paragraph (1) with respect to such provisions, the following rules shall apply: (A) Any reference to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives shall be deemed a reference to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and any reference to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate shall be deemed a reference to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. (B) Any reference to the date on which the President transmits a report shall be deemed a reference to the date on which the bill is introduced in the House of Representatives or Senate (as the case may be). (b) Bill described For purposes of subsection (a), a bill described in this subsection is a bill— (1) which is introduced during the 90-day period which begins on the date the President declares a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170 ); (2) which consists solely of appropriations made to each Federal agency which submitted a final report with respect to such major disaster under section 430(f)(2) of such Act (as added by section 2) for costs associated with, and in the amount of, the specified damage incurred by the agency, as set forth in such final report; and (3) the title of which is as follows: A bill making supplemental appropriations in response to the major disaster declared by the President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act on ________. , with the blank space filled in with the date on which the President declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170 ). (c) Exercise of rulemaking power This section is enacted by Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a bill described in subsection (b), and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.