[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4075 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4075

  To make continuing appropriations for Federal Emergency Management 
    Agency pay and operations in the event of a Federal Government 
                   shutdown, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2026

Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mr. Schiff) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make continuing appropriations for Federal Emergency Management 
    Agency pay and operations in the event of a Federal Government 
                   shutdown, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pay FEMA Personnel Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FEMA PERSONNEL.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated to the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency (in this Act referred to as the 
``Administrator'') for fiscal year 2026, out of amounts in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for the period beginning February 14, 2026, 
during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 
are not in effect such sums as may be necessary--
            (1) to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay 
        differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable 
        on a regular basis to employees of the Federal Emergency 
        Management Agency whose services are required to carry out the 
        Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.);
            (2) to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay 
        differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable 
        on a regular basis to employees of the Federal Emergency 
        Management Agency whose services are required to administer 
        Federal assistance through grants, contracts, and cooperative 
        agreements not relating to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
        Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.); 
        and
            (3) to support all other activities necessary for the 
        administration of every grant program administered by the 
        Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in subsection (a) shall be 
construed to prohibit the Administrator from awarding or disbursing 
grant program funding.
    (c) Charge to Future Appropriations.--Expenditures made with 
amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) shall be charged to the 
applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever an Act in 
which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is included 
is enacted into law.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION.

    Amounts made available and authority granted under this Act shall 
be available until the earliest of the following dates:
            (1) The date of enactment into law of an appropriation 
        (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for 
        which amounts are made available under section 2(a).
            (2) The date of enactment into law of the applicable 
        regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act 
        without any appropriation for any purpose for which amounts are 
        made available under section 2(a).
            (3) September 30, 2026.

SEC. 4. RETROACTIVE EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect as if enacted on February 13, 2026.
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