106th Congress / Bills / H R 707

Title

To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize a program for predisaster mitigation, to streamline the administration of disaster relief, to control the Federal costs of disaster assistance, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Administrative procedure -- Executive Office of the President | Administrative procedure -- Federal Emergency Management Agency | Auditing | Budgets | Building construction | Business | Buy American | Cemeteries and funerals -- Costs | Congress | Congressional investigations | Congressional reporting requirements | Construction costs | Consumers | Cost accounting | Cost control | Cost effectiveness | Cost of living adjustments | Debarment of government contractors | Deceptive advertising | Dental care | Depressed areas | Disaster insurance | Disaster loans | Disaster relief | Disasters | Economic policy | Emergency housing | Emergency management | Executive departments | Federal advisory bodies | Federal aid to housing | Federal-local relations | Federal-state relations | Finance | Fire prevention | Flood control | Flood damage prevention | Flood forecasting | Flood insurance | Forest fires | Government and business | Government information | Government lending | Government publicity | Government spending reductions | Grants-in-aid | Health policy | Home ownership | Home repair and improvement | Household moving | Housing | Housing subsidies | Infrastructure | Infrastructure (Economics) | Intergovernmental fiscal relations | Labeling | Land subsidence | Landslides | Law | Maintenance and repair | Maps | Medical care | Medical economics | Medicine | Natural resources | Nonprofit organizations | Overhead costs | Politics and government | Poor | Presidential commissions | Presidents | Private forests | Public buildings | Public contracts | Relocation | Rent subsidies | Rental housing | Risk assessment | Risk management -- Planning | Rural affairs | Rural poverty | Science policy | Small business | Small towns | Social services | Soil erosion | Sparsely populated areas | State and local government | Technological innovations | Technology | Trade | Transportation | Travel costs | Urban affairs | Water resources | Welfare

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
3/4/99	House	Passed	Session 1, roll call 33: On Passage Disaster Mitigation and Cost Reduction Act