US Congress Senate Bill 1118 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: Introduced on May 26 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-05-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

FEMA Common Sense and Cost Effectiveness Act of 2011 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to authorize the construction and maintenance of levees on property acquired under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) hazard mitigation grant programs, including: (1) a levee that is federally owned and operated; (2) a permanent levee that is federally constructed and nonfederally operated and maintained; (3) a levee that is federally constructed as a nonpermanent levee, that a nonfederal entity desires to operate and maintain as a permanent levee, and the owners of which are participating in, or, in a specified period after the date on which the levee is constructed, will begin participating in, the emergency response to natural disasters program; and (4) a nonfederal levee the owners of which are participating in the program. Authorizes an application to construct or maintain a levee on acquired lands to be denied if the levee poses a significant threat of harm to downstream communities.

FEMA Common Sense and Cost Effectiveness Act of 2011

Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Kent Conrad [D-ND]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1118/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1118/BILLS-112s1118is.pdf