H.R. 730 (110th): To provide funds to certain State and local governments to pay for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season.

Introduced:
Jan 30, 2007 (110th Congress, 2007–2009)
Sponsor:
Rep. Bobby Jindal [R-LA1]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.

(About Ads | Advertise Here)
Status

This bill was introduced on January 30, 2007, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Jan 30, 2007
Cosponsors
none
Committees

House Transportation and Infrastructure

The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Summary

No summaries available.

Text

Read Bill Text »

Last updated Jan 30, 2007.
2 pages

Primary Source

View on THOMAS (The Library of Congress)

GovTrack gets most information from THOMAS, which is updated generally one day after events occur. Activity since the last update may not be reflected here.

Citation

Click a format for a citation suggestion:

GovTrack’s Bill Summary

We don’t have a summary available yet.

Library of Congress Summary

The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.

1/30/2007--Introduced.
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide funds to a state or local government to pay for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing to evacuees from hurricanes of the 2005 season if such governmental entities have previously arranged to pay for those utilities on behalf of the evacuees for certain leases contracted by or prior to February 7, 2008 (currently February 7, 2006).

House Republican Conference Summary

The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

No summary available.

House Democratic Caucus Summary

The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.

So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That’s because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.

We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.

The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:

Slip Laws

Slip laws refer to enacted bills and joint resolutions in their original form as enacted by Congress, that is, before other laws amend them. Slip laws are cited as “Public Law XXX-YYY”, where XXX is the number of the Congress in which the bill or resolution was introduced.

  • Public Law 109-234