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<item congress="113" measure-type="s" measure-number="1819" measure-id="id113s1819" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2013-12-12" update-date="2014-01-02">
<title>Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-12-12</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include public broadcasting facilities within the definition of a &quot;private nonprofit facility&quot; that provides essential services of a governmental nature to the general public, and to include broadcast and telecommunications within the definition of &quot;critical services&quot; provided by such a facility, for purposes of eligibility for certain disaster assistance.</p> <p>Makes this Act applicable to a major disaster declared by the President under such Act on or after October 28, 2012.</p>]]></summary-text>
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