HR 3969
109th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural subsidies
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Transfer of employees
To provide for the designation of a Department of Agriculture disaster liaison to assist State and local employees of the Department in coordination with other disaster agencies in responding to federally declared disasters.
Introduced: October 6, 2005
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Became law
Oct 20, 2005
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Oct 6, 2005
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Oct 6, 2005
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to deploy disaster liaisons to state and local Department of Agriculture Service Centers to coordinate Department assistance with other designated disaster agencies in a federally declared disaster area whenever Federal Emergency Management personnel are deployed in that area.
Defines "federally declared disaster area" for such purposes.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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