[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3403 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3403

  To authorize transitional sheltering assistance for individuals who 
 live in areas with unhealthy air quality caused by wildfires, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            August 28, 2018

   Mr. Wyden 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 transitional sheltering assistance for individuals who 
 live in areas with unhealthy air quality caused by wildfires, 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 ``Clean Air Refugee Assistance Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE.

    In carrying out the Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency under section 403 of Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5170b), the President may provide transitional shelter assistance to 
individuals living in an area where the air quality index is determined 
to be unhealthy for not less than 3 consecutive days as a result of a 
wildfire declared by the President to be a major disaster under section 
401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) or declared to be a major disaster by 
the Governor of the State in which the individuals are located.
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