[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3965 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3965

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act to include extreme heat in the definition of a major 
                               disaster.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2023

    Mr. Gallego (for himself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, and Mr. Amodei) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act to include extreme heat in the definition of a major 
                               disaster.

    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 ``Extreme Heat Emergency Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF MAJOR DISASTER.

    Section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)) is amended by inserting 
``extreme heat,'' before ``or drought''.
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