[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3935 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3935

 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Hurricane Relief 
    Bonds in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and subsequent 
  flooding and displacement of residents in the federally designated 
 disaster areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2005

Mr. Rogers of Kentucky (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Simmons, Mr. Davis 
  of Kentucky, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. Bonner, Mr. Wamp, Mr. 
  Boustany, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Sweeney, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Camp, Ms. Granger, Mr. Beauprez, Mr. McCotter, 
    Mr. Duncan, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, and Mr. Wicker) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Hurricane Relief 
    Bonds in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and subsequent 
  flooding and displacement of residents in the federally designated 
 disaster areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hurricane Relief Bonds Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF HURRICANE RELIEF BONDS.

    Section 3105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Hurricane Relief Bonds.--The Secretary may designate one or 
more series of bonds or certificates (or any portion thereof) issued 
under this section as `Hurricane Relief Bonds' in response to 
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and the subsequent flooding and 
displacement of residents along the Gulf Coast of the United States.''.
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