Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Latest action · Sep 2, 2005 Became Public Law No: 109-61.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 2, 2005
- Passed HouseSep 2, 2005
- Passed SenateSep 2, 2005
- To the PresidentSep 2, 2005
- Became lawSep 2, 2005Public Law 109-61
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Appropriates an additional: (1) $10 billion to the Department of Homeland Security for disaster relief (for areas affected by Hurricane Katrina), to remain available until expended; and (2) $500 million to the Department of Defense for ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' for emergency hurricane expenses, to support costs of evacuation, emergency repairs, deployment of personnel, and other costs resulting from immediate relief efforts, to remain available until September 30, 2006.
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer these funds to appropriations for military personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, family housing, Defense Health Program, and working capital funds. Requires transferred funds to be merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the appropriation or fund to which transferred. Requires re-transfer back to this appropriation of any transferred funds determined to be not necessary for the purposes of this Act.
Directs the Secretary to notify the congressional defense committees in writing within five days after any such transfer.
Designates as emergency requirements, which shall shall not count for certain purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts appropriated by this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Sep 2, 2005 |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Sep 2, 2005 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 2, 2005Introduced in House
- Sep 2, 2005Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Sep 2, 2005Consideration initiated by previous order of the House.
- Sep 2, 2005Considered by previous order of the House. (consideration: CR H7616-7627)
- Sep 2, 2005DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous order of the House, the House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on H.R. 3645.
- Sep 2, 2005DEBATE - The House resumed debate on H.R. 3645.
- Sep 2, 2005The previous question was ordered pursuant to a previous order of the House.
- Sep 2, 2005Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote. (text: CR H7618)
- Sep 2, 2005Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 2, 2005Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (considered by unanimous consent agreement: CR 9/1/2005 S9597-9598)
- Sep 2, 2005Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Sep 2, 2005Cleared for White House.
- Sep 2, 2005Presented to President.
- Sep 2, 2005Signed by President.
- Sep 2, 2005Became Public Law No: 109-61.
In the Congressional Record 6
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 109-8 | THE ROLE OF NEPA IN THE STATES OF WASHINGTON, OREGON, IDAHO, MONTANA AND ALASKA.124 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Apr 23, 2005 |
| Serial No. 109-6 | MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT55 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Apr 14, 2005 |
CRS reports 13
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 13
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
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|---|---|---|---|
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| R47594 | Budget Enforcement Rules: Emergency Designations | Report | Jun 15, 2023 |
| R44604 | Trends in the Timing and Size of DHS Appropriations: In Brief Archived | Report | Dec 6, 2019 |
| R43139 | Federal Disaster Assistance After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, and Ike Archived | Report | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R42458 | Offsets, Supplemental Appropriations, and the Disaster Relief Fund: FY1990-FY2013 Archived | Report | May 31, 2016 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- Making emergency supplemental appropriations to meet immediate needs arising from the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Short Titles as Passed Senate
- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Short Titles as Enacted
- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Popular Titles
- Katrina Relief Appropriations bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Alabama
- Appropriations
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Defense budgets
- Defense procurement
- Department of Defense
- Department of Homeland Security
- Disaster relief
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Evacuation of civilians
- Families
- Floods
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Housing and Community Development
- Hurricane aftermath legislation
- Hurricanes
- Louisiana
- Maintenance and repair
- Military civic action
- Military dependents
- Military housing
- Military medicine
- Military personnel
- Mississippi
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- Supplemental appropriations
- Water Resources Development
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- —Enrolled Bill
- Sep 2, 2005Received in Senate
- Sep 2, 2005Considered and Passed House
- Sep 2, 2005Engrossed in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.