Bill > S1560

This bill, titled the Deficit Neutral Disaster Relief Act, allows up to $450,000,000 to be made available to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a government agency responsible for roads and highways, for emergency relief projects in Colorado. These funds are specifically for damage caused by flooding events in that state during the 2013 calendar year, and they are to be used under a program established by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013. The bill also designates these funds as an "emergency requirement" for the purposes of congressional enforcement and statutory pay-as-you-go rules, which are mechanisms to track and manage government spending and its impact on the deficit.