[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1563 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1563

 To require the President's budget to include, at a minimum, a request 
         for disaster funding based on to the 10 year average.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2011

 Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Brown of Massachusetts) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the President's budget to include, at a minimum, a request 
         for disaster funding based on to the 10 year average.

    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 ``Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 31.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting at the end the following:
            ``(39)(A) An allowance for disaster funding of at least the 
        average amount of disaster funding for the previous 10 years, 
        excluding the highest and lowest years. The amount of this 
        allowance shall be calculated by the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget and submitted to the President.
            ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `disaster funding'--
                    ``(i) means funding--
                            ``(I) provided under the Robert T. Stafford 
                        Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
                        (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) for an emergency 
                        declared under section 501 of the Robert T. 
                        Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5191) or a major 
                        disaster declared under section 401 of the 
                        Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
                        Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170);
                            ``(II) for disaster assistance provided 
                        under section 7(b) of the Small Business Act 
                        (15 U.S.C. 636(b)); and
                            ``(III) for disaster assistance provided by 
                        the Secretary of Agriculture; and
                    ``(ii) includes funding provided under sections 304 
                and 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
                Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5147 and 5187).''.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO THE BBA.

    Section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking clause (iii) and inserting 
the following:
                    ``(iii) For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 
                `disaster relief' shall have the same meaning given the 
                term `disaster funding' in section 1105(a)(39)(B) of 
                title 31, United States Code.''.
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