[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5310 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5310

   To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Defense to prescribe regulations to allow emergency response providers 
   to use mobile commissaries or exchange stores deployed to an area 
  covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the 
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2019

 Mr. Waltz (for himself and Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Defense to prescribe regulations to allow emergency response providers 
   to use mobile commissaries or exchange stores deployed to an area 
  covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the 
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

    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 ``First Responder Access to Mobile 
Exchanges Act'' or ``FRAME Act''.

SEC. 2. USE BY EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROVIDERS OF MOBILE COMMISSARIES OR 
              EXCHANGE STORES DEPLOYED TO AREAS COVERED BY A 
              DECLARATION OF MAJOR DISASTER OR EMERGENCY.

    Section 1146 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Emergency Response Providers During a Declared Major Disaster 
or Emergency.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to 
allow an emergency response provider (as that term is defined in 
section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296; 6 
U.S.C. 101)) to use a mobile commissary or exchange store deployed to 
an area covered by a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under 
section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170).''.
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