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118th Congress Emergency Management

S. 3648: HELP Response and Recovery Act

Passed SenateMar 20, 2024

  1. Passed Senate (completed)Mar 20, 2024
  2. Passed House (not reached)
  3. To the President (not reached)
  4. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Introduced in Senate, Jan 24, 2024

This bill repeals a statute requiring the Department of Homeland Security to limit to no more than 150 days the duration of certain noncompetitive contracts facilitating response to or recovery from a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster. The bill also states that it is the sense of Congress that the repealed statute has been rendered obsolete by changes to law and regulation.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Roll calls

0 votes on this bill

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Amendments

0 offered

No amendments were offered to this bill.

Cosponsors

1

Bipartisan support.

Who scored on this bill

60 points earned
  1. 1Gary Peters D-MI SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reported, passed Senate4 events+56
  2. 2John Kennedy R-LACosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
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History

  1. Mar 20, 2024Passed the Senate with an amendment by unanimous consent.
  2. Jan 24, 2024Introduced in the Senate by Gary Peters.
Show the full action history (10 actions)
  1. Mar 21, 2024Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  2. Mar 21, 2024Received in the House.
  3. Mar 21, 2024Held at the desk.
  4. Mar 20, 2024Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2478; text: CR S2478)
  5. Mar 20, 2024Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2478; text: CR S2478)
  6. Mar 14, 2024Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-161.
  7. Mar 14, 2024Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 348.
  8. Jan 31, 2024Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  9. Jan 24, 2024Introduced in Senate
  10. Jan 24, 2024Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.