[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 98 (Monday, June 28, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S5496]
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               PREDISASTER HAZARD MITIGATION ACT OF 2010

  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to Calendar No. 440, S. 3249.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the title of the bill.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3249) to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to reauthorize the 
     predisaster hazard mitigation program and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs, with an amendment.

                                S. 3249

     SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON EARMARKS.

       Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(n) Prohibition on Earmarks.--
       ``(1) In general.--None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available to carry out this section may be 
     used for congressionally directed spending, as defined under 
     rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
       ``(2) Report to congress.--If grants are awarded under this 
     section using procedures other than competitive procedures, 
     the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
     shall submit to Congress a report explaining why competitive 
     procedures were not used.''.

  Mr. CASEY. I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported 
amendment be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time and 
passed, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table without 
intervening action or debate, and that any statements related to the 
bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The bill (S. 3249), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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