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<item congress="116" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4376" measure-id="id116hr4376" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2019-09-18" update-date="2020-06-04">
<title>Streamlining The Official Response and Monetary Aid for Disasters Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id116hr4376v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2020-06-04">
<action-date>2019-09-18</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<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>]]></summary-text>
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