Lineman Legacy Act
This bill specifies that utility line technicians responding to a major disaster or emergency qualify as emergency response providers.
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify that utility line 
          technicians qualify as emergency response providers.

    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 ``Linemen Legacy Act''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROVIDERS.

    Section 2(6) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(6)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``includes Federal'' and inserting 
        ``includes--
                    ``(A) Federal'';
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
        and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) utility line technicians responding to a 
                major disaster or an emergency declared by the 
                President under section 501 of the Robert T. Stafford 
                Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
                5191).''.
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Linemen Legacy Act
A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify that utility line technicians qualify as emergency response providers.
Linemen Legacy Act
Sen. Kennedy, John