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To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize funding for emergency management performance grants, and for other purposes. 9/10/2007--Reported to House amended.    (There is 1 other summary) Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to continue implementation of an emergency management performance grants program. Limits the federal share of the cost of a program funded activity to 50%. Sets forth guidelines for the Administrator to apportion funds to carry out the program among the states on the basis of population. Provides that if the total amount appropriated to carry out the program for a fiscal year equals or exceeds $200 million, no state shall receive an apportionment for that fiscal year that is less than the amount the state received in emergency management performance grants for FY2007.[...]

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  • 02/27/2008 - For Further Action See Title II of H.R. 1.
  • 02/19/2008 - For Further Action See H.R.1.
  • 09/10/2007 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-322.
  • 09/10/2007 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 203.
  • 08/03/2007 - For Further Action See Title II of H.R. 1.

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