[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4654 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4654

  To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
  Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize States, Indian Tribes, and 
Territories to close disaster recovery projects by authorizing the use 
   of excess funds for management costs for other disaster recovery 
                               projects.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2022

  Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Lankford) 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 amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
  Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize States, Indian Tribes, and 
Territories to close disaster recovery projects by authorizing the use 
   of excess funds for management costs for other disaster recovery 
                               projects.

    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 ``Disaster Management Costs 
Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR MANAGEMENT COSTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5165b) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Use of Excess Funds for Management Costs.--
            ``(1) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `excess 
        funds for management costs' means the difference between--
                    ``(A) the amount of the applicable specific 
                management costs authorized under subsection (b); and
                    ``(B) as of the date on which the incident is 
                closed, the amount of funding for management costs 
                activities expended by the grantee or subgrantee 
                receiving the financial assistance for costs described 
                in subparagraph (A).
            ``(2) Availability of excess funds for management costs.--
        The President may make available to a grantee or subgrantee 
        receiving financial assistance under section 403, 404, 406, 
        407, or 502 any excess funds for management costs.
            ``(3) Use of funds.--Excess funds for management costs made 
        available to a grantee or subgrantee under paragraph (2) may be 
        used for activities associated with building capacity to 
        respond to or recover from the types of incidents for which 
        assistance may be made available under section 403, 404, 406, 
        407, or 502 and to provide such assistance, including for 
        providing training and other activities associated with any 
        major disaster or emergency declaration, or to otherwise 
        prepare for such an incident.
            ``(4) Availability.--Excess funds for management costs made 
        available to a grantee or subgrantee under paragraph (2) shall 
        remain available to the grantee or subgrantee until the date 
        that is 5 years after the date on which the excess funds for 
        management costs are made available under paragraph (2).''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to any incident for which a major disaster or 
emergency is declared under section 401 or 501, respectively, of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170, 5191) that is open on, or occurs on or after, the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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