[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1288 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1288

 To authorize appropriations for grants to the States participating in 
  the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2009

  Mr. Pryor (for himself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Landrieu, and Mr. Burris) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize appropriations for grants to the States participating in 
  the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, 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 ``Emergency Management Assistance 
Compact Reauthorization Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Emergency Management Assistance Compact consented 
        to by the Joint Resolution entitled ``Joint Resolution granting 
        the consent of Congress to the Emergency Management Assistance 
        Compact'' (Public Law 104-321; 110 Stat. 3877) is the only 
        congressionally chartered mutual aid agreement among States 
        that provides for assistance after emergencies and major 
        disasters.
            (2) The Emergency Management Assistance Compact was 
        highlighted as a best practice in the major after-action 
        reports relating to Hurricane Katrina of 2005.
            (3) The Emergency Management Assistance Compact enables 
        States to assist each other during emergencies and major 
        disasters swiftly with specific assets and personnel.
            (4) By identifying, training, and exercising resources and 
        personnel before an emergency or major disaster, the Emergency 
        Management Assistance Compact saves taxpayer money by reducing 
        redundancy and increasing self-sufficiency at the State level.
            (5) The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is the 
        mechanism used by States to deploy individuals from the various 
        emergency disciplines when an emergency or major disaster 
        occurs and a State affected by the major disaster or emergency 
        requests assistance.
            (6) Investment in the Emergency Management Assistance 
        Compact ensures a stable and agile mutual aid program to 
        address all-hazards disasters.
            (7) The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 
        2006 (Public Law 109-295; 120 Stat. 1394) authorized funding 
        for grants to the administrators of the Emergency Management 
        Assistance Compact, the Final Report of the National Commission 
        on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (commonly known as 
        the ``9/11 Commission Report'') called for mutual aid 
        enhancement, and the report of the Government Accountability 
        Office entitled ``Emergency Management Assistance Compact: 
        Enhancing EMAC's Collaborative and Administrative Capacity 
        Should Improve National Disaster Response'', dated June 29, 
        2007, recommended that the Administrator of the Federal 
        Emergency Management Agency identify ways to build the 
        administrative capacity of the Emergency Management Assistance 
        Compact network.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT GRANTS.

    (a) Uses.--Section 661(b) of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management 
Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 761(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) to educate emergency response providers by offering 
        training materials and courses relating to the Emergency 
        Management Assistance Compact;
            ``(7) to conduct exercises regarding deployments under the 
        Emergency Management Assistance Compact and related procedures;
            ``(8) to establish a system for tracking resources deployed 
        under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact; and
            ``(9) to conduct after-action assessments, prepare reports, 
        and carry out recommendations in response to large-scale 
        activations, as determined appropriate by the administrators of 
        the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 661(d) of the Post-
Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 761(d)) is 
amended by striking ``fiscal year 2008'' and inserting ``each of fiscal 
years 2010 through 2012''.
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