9-8-05,
Bill Passed House 416-0
9-12-05, Senate Passed Bill by Unanimous Consent
9-20-05, Became Public Law 109-65
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fourth day of January, two thousand and five
An Act
To temporarily increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency for carrying out the national flood insurance program.
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 `National Flood Insurance Program Enhanced Borrowing
Authority Act of 2005'.
SEC. 2. INCREASE IN BORROWING AUTHORITY.
The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 1309 of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a)) is amended by inserting before the
period at the end the following: `; except that, through September 30, 2008,
clause (2) of this sentence shall be applied by substituting `$3,500,000,000'
for `$1,500,000,000'.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
END
