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National Resilience Fund: New Taxes for Disaster Preparedness

This act establishes a new fund to help finance disaster response and prevention programs. The fund will be supported by new or amended taxes on crude oil and natural gas. The goal is to enhance community safety and resilience against natural disasters.
Key points
A National Resilience and Recovery Fund is established, financed by new oil and gas taxes.
The fund will support FEMA programs like hazard mitigation grants and resilient infrastructure building.
New excise taxes are introduced on crude oil windfall profits and Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas production.
The definition of crude oil for tax purposes is expanded to include tar sands and oil shale.
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Additional Information
Print number: 118_HR_10314
Sponsor: Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1]
Process start date: 2024-12-05