S. 5355: Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023

Bill · 117th Congress (2021–2022). Failed Senate, 22 Dec 2022. Introduced 22 Dec 2022.

Official title: A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, and for other purposes.

Vote results

Senate, 22 Dec 2022: Bill Defeated, 22 Yea, 73 Nay, 0 Present, 5 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
President: Not presented to the President.

How each member voted

Senate

Yea (22): Mike Crapo (R-ID); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Roy Blunt (R-MO); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); James E. Risch (R-ID); Ron Johnson (R-WI); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Tim Scott (R-SC); Todd Young (R-IN); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); John Kennedy (R-LA); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

Nay (73): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT); Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Richard C. Shelby (R-AL); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); James M. Inhofe (R-OK); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Patty Murray (D-WA); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); John Thune (R-SD); Rob Portman (R-OH); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Jon Tester (D-MT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Joe Manchin, III (D-WV); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); John Hoeven (R-ND); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).

Not voting (5): Richard Burr (R-NC); John Barrasso (R-WY); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Ben Sasse (R-NE).

Not in office (2): Kamala D. Harris (D-CA); Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).

Summary

Main subject: Provides emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2023 to federal departments and agencies for disaster relief, including funds for agricultural losses, Army Corps of Engineers projects, the Disaster Relief Fund, Interior and Forest Service wildfire and recovery work, water infrastructure, home energy assistance, and housing and community development. Title I, Title IV, Title VI, Title VII, Title VIII, Title X

Its core areas: Agricultural disaster losses and rural development; Army Corps of Engineers flood and storm damage projects; Disaster Relief Fund and Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fire assistance; Wildland fire management and public land recovery; Clean water and drinking water state revolving funds; Low Income Home Energy Assistance; Head Start, child care and health services after Hurricanes Fiona and Ian; Community development and housing assistance.

Unexpected Items: 25 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (14)

Title I, “BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”: Provides $58,000,000 for "Buildings and Facilities" under the Department of Agriculture title, to remain available until expended. ($58,000,000)
Title I, “Food safety and inspection service”: Provides $29,700,000 for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, to remain available until expended. ($29,700,000)
Sec. 102: Appropriates $125,000,000 for Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Services salaries to offset lost quarantine and inspection fee collections. ($125,000,000)
Title II, “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS”: Provides $500,000,000 for disaster-area economic development and, in a separate paragraph, $618,000,000 for grants under sections 28 and 29 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act; it also lets the Commerce Secretary hire temporary staff outside competitive service rules. ($618,000,000)
Title II, “INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES”: Provides $27,000,000 to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act, with $13,000,000 for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and $14,000,000 for the Manufacturing USA Program. ($27,000,000)
Title II, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”: Provides $29,000,000 for hurricane and wildfire consequences and, in a second paragraph, $62,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is for fishing gear activities to reduce entanglement risk to North Atlantic right whales. ($20,000,000)
Title II, “PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION”: Provides $327,701,000 for hurricane hunter aircraft and related expenses, and a separate $108,838,000 to remain available until September 30, 2025. ($108,838,000)
Title II, “BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”: Provides $182,000,000 for "Buildings and Facilities" under the Department of Commerce title, to remain available until expended. ($182,000,000)
Title II, “CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION”: Provides $189,400,000 to repair and replace NASA facilities damaged by Hurricanes Ian and Nicole or scheduled for derating due to deterioration, and a further $367,000,000 available until September 30, 2028.
Title II, “RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES”: Provides $2,500,000 for research facility damage and a separate $818,162,000, of which $210,000,000 is to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act. ($210,000,000)
Title II, “STEM EDUCATION”: Provides $217,000,000 for STEM Education, of which $125,000,000 is to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act. ($125,000,000)
Title IV, “Electricity”: Provides $1,000,000,000 to improve the resilience of the Puerto Rican electric grid, including grants to low and moderate income households and households with individuals with disabilities for renewable energy and storage. ($1,000,000,000)
Title IV, “Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration”: Provides $520,000,000 to the Western Area Power Administration for purchase of power and transmission services, reimbursable from its collections, and allows up to $100,000,000 to be transferred to its Colorado River Basins Power Marketing Fund. ($520,000,000)
Sec. 602: Appropriates $309,000,000 for customs and immigration inspection and pre-inspection services at ports of entry to offset lost Immigration User Fee receipts and certain customs service fees. ($309,000,000)

Funds a specific named project or event (3)

Title II, “PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION”: Provides $20,000,000 to the Legal Services Corporation for expenses related to the consequences of 2022 hurricanes, flooding, wildfires and other extreme weather, and applies funding restrictions from earlier appropriations laws. ($20,000,000)
Title VII, “United States Fish and Wildlife Service — CONSTRUCTION”: Provides $247,000,000 for construction related to wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters, and names winter storm damages at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge among the covered costs. ($247,000,000)
Title VII, “EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION”: Provides $90,465,000 for Education Construction expenses related to flooding at the To’Hajiilee Community School. ($90,465,000)

Different amount for specific places or groups (2)

Title VII, “State and Tribal Assistance Grants”: Directs $1,067,210,000 in State Revolving Fund grants to States or Territories in EPA Regions 2 and 4, and $450,000,000 to EPA Region 4 areas where an emergency was declared in August of fiscal year 2022; a separate $150,000,000 covers the same declared-emergency areas. The funds are exempt from matching requirements.
Title X, “EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM”: Provides $803,000,000 for the Emergency Relief Program and sets the Federal share at 100 percent for emergency relief funds responding to damage caused by Hurricane Fiona, notwithstanding section 120(e) of title 23.

Exception or delay for a subset (4)

Sec. 601: Notwithstanding parts of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act, lets FEMA compensate for replacement of water treatment facilities instead of temporary injury, up to $140,000,000. ($140,000,000)
Title VIII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Provides $1,000,000,000 for Low Income Home Energy Assistance and directs that $500,000,000 be allocated as though the fiscal year 2023 total appropriation was less than $1,975,000,000; a second paragraph adds $2,500,000,000. ($500,000,000)
Title IV, “CONSTRUCTION”: Provides Corps of Engineers construction funds and states that the total project cost limitation in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 does not apply to projects funded under the first paragraph; it also sets full Federal expense for certain ongoing projects.
Title VIII, “PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND”: Provides $128,792,000 for Hurricanes Fiona and Ian consequences, and exempts the transferred Health Centers funds from a time limitation in section 330(e)(3) of the PHS Act and the transferred aging and disability funds from Older Americans Act and Rehabilitation Act allotment and matching requirements.

Changes a government process (2)

Sec. 801: Lets the Health and Human Services Secretary appoint candidates directly to certain emergency response positions without regard to the competitive hiring provisions of title 5, for 270 days.
Title IX, “Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps”: Provides $41,040,000 for Navy and Marine Corps military construction related to Hurricanes Ian and Fiona and allows use for planning, design and military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law. ($41,040,000)

What it does

Title I, “Office of the Secretary”: Provides $3,741,715,000 to the Department of Agriculture's Office of the Secretary for crop, tree, bush, vine and livestock-related losses from 2022 disasters, with up to $494,500,000 of it for livestock producers.
Title VI, “DISASTER RELIEF FUND”: Provides $5,000,000,000 to the Disaster Relief Fund for major disasters declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Title VI, “HERMIT’S PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE ASSISTANCE ACCOUNT”: Provides $1,450,000,000 to the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Account to carry out the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act.
Title IV, “FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES”: Provides $519,200,000 to the Army Corps of Engineers' Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies account to prepare for and respond to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Title X, “COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND”: Provides $3,000,000,000 to the Community Development Fund, for the same purposes and under the same terms as the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, but for major disasters that occurred in 2022 or later.
Title VIII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Provides $1,000,000,000 and a further $2,500,000,000 under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance heading for payments under section 2602(b) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.

Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 15 Oct 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.