S. 1963: Emergency Disaster Relief Fund Act of 2025

119th Congress · introduced 2025-06-05 · Emergency Management · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Emergency Disaster Relief Fund Act of 2025

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Emergency Disaster Relief Fund Act of 2025 This bill provides FY2025 supplemental appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). (The DRF is the primary funding source for federal programs for disaster response, recovery, and mitigation.) The amounts provided by the bill are designated as emergency spending pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and other congressional budget enforcement procedures. (This generally excludes the budget effects from being counted for the purposes of congressional budget enforcement procedures.)

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Emergency Disaster Relief Fund Act of 2025

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119s1963.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/s>

Record fed-us-cong119-s1963 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills