S. 1563: Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 2011
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S. 1563: Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 2011
112th Congress · introduced 2011-09-15 · Economics and Public Finance · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-09-15 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 2011
Plain summary
Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 2011- Requires the President's annual budget, submitted to Congress, to include an allowance for disaster funding of at least the average amount of disaster funding for the previous ten years, excluding the highest and lowest years. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to calculate this allowance for the President. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to redefine “disaster relief” to conform to the meaning of “disaster funding” in this Act.
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Official text
Safeguarding Disaster Funding Act of 2011
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s1563.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s1563 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112