A bill to amend section 327 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify that National Urban Search and Rescue Response System task forces may include Federal employees.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1521.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1521, a bill to amend section 327 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify that National Urban Search and Rescue Response System task forces may include Federal employees” on July 10, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 19, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 10, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55425

  CBO publication date

  July 10, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1521, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/1521

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 116-60 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 22, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 22, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/SRPT/60

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1521, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/1521

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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