[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2704 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2704

  To give the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact between 
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas for the purpose of 
    establishing an all-hazard mitigation, readiness, response, and 
                 recovery plan, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2007

   Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To give the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact between 
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas for the purpose of 
    establishing an all-hazard mitigation, readiness, response, and 
                 recovery plan, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Gulf Coast All-Hazard Readiness Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. CONSENT OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Consent.--The consent of Congress is given to any number of the 
Gulf Coast States to negotiate and enter into an agreement or compact 
that meets the following requirements:
            (1) The agreement or compact is consented to by the 
        legislatures of each of the participating Gulf Coast States 
        through legislation enacted not later than December 31, 2010.
            (2) The agreement or compact is entered into primarily for 
        the purpose of establishing a plan for all-hazard mitigation, 
        readiness, response, and recovery.
            (3) The agreement or compact establishes a multi-state all-
        hazard fund generated by participating Gulf Coast States to be 
        utilized when a disaster affects those States.
            (4) The agreement or compact requires each of the 
        participating Gulf Coast States to appoint a commissioner to 
        organize the operation, management, and disbursement of the 
        multi-state all-hazard fund in coordination with the other 
        commissioners.
            (5) The agreement or compact prohibits participating Gulf 
        Coast States from taking an action prohibited by Federal law at 
        the time of such action.
    (b) Gulf Coast States Defined.--As used in this section, the term 
``Gulf Coast States'' means Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
and Texas.
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