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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 114–111: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting facilities to receive certain disaster assistance, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 114–111—DEC. 18, 2015</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/129/2240">129 STAT. 2240</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>114–111</docNumber>
<congress value="114">114th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting facilities to receive certain disaster assistance, and for other purposes.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x79faaabb-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2015-12-18">Dec. 18, 2015</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x79faaabc-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/114/s/1090">S. 1090</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x79fad1cd-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2015.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d352832e88" identifier="/us/pl/114/111/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x79fad1ce-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t42/s5121">42 USC 5121 note</ref>.</p></sidenote><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2015</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d352832e103" identifier="/us/pl/114/111/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY OF BROADCASTING FACILITIES FOR CERTAIN DISASTER ASSISTANCE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y79faf8df-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/114/111/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Private Nonprofit Facility Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102(11)(B) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s5122/11/B">42 U.S.C. 5122(11)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>broadcasting facilities,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>workshops,</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y79faf8e0-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" identifier="/us/pl/114/111/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Critical Services Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 406(a)(3)(B) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s5172/a/3/B">42 U.S.C. 5172(a)(3)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>communications,</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>communications (including broadcast and telecommunications),</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2015-12-18">December 18, 2015</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/114/s/1090">S. 1090</ref>:</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">SENATE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/srpt/114/142">114–142</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs</committee>).
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 161 (2015):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x79faf8e1-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Sept. 17, considered and passed Senate.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x79faf8e2-e86f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 16, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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