Skip to content

Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 901

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: disaster assistance payments and making an appropriation. (FE)

Adjutant general Military affairs department of Natural disaster Public employee

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Military Affairs is required to make

payments to retail electric cooperatives, local governmental units, and federally

recognized American Indian tribes and bands in this state for damages and costs

incurred as the result of certain disasters. Current law requires that the recipient

of a disaster assistance payment cover 30 percent of the amount of the damages and

costs resulting from the disaster. This bill reduces that matching requirement to 25

percent.

Additionally, the bill authorizes disaster assistance payments to be made for

costs incurred for approved hazard mitigation measures after a disaster. The bill

also requires that all of the emergency work and permanent work categories

designated by the federal emergency management agency (FEMA) be eligible for

disaster assistance payments. FEMA designates the following as emergency and

permanent work categories:

Category A: Debris removal.

Category B: Emergency protective measures.

Category C: Roads and bridges.

Category D: Water control facilities.

Category E: Buildings and equipment.

Category F: Utilities.

Category G: Parks, recreational areas, and other facilities.

Finally the bill provides $2,500,000 per fiscal year in the 2019-21 fiscal

biennium for DMA to make and administer disaster assistance payments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D) , Ringhand (D) , Schachtner (D) , Smith (D)

16 cosponsors

B. Meyers (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 19, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Schachtner, Bewley, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Miller, Smith, L. Taylor, Ringhand and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives B. Meyers, Billings, Considine, Emerson, Hebl, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, C. Taylor, Zamarripa, Doyle and Subeck

  2. Mar 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Apr 14, 2020 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received