Emergency supplemental authorization

(a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term agency means an agency that is authorized or required to make a payment under a covered provision; and (2) the term covered provision means— (A) section 5571 of title 5, United States Code, as added by section 2 of this Act; (B) section 8102a of title 5, United States Code, as amended by section 4 of this Act; or (C) section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973), as amended by section 5 of this Act. (b) Authorization If the head of an agency determines, with the concurrence of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, that a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other incident results in the inability of the agency to make additional payments under a covered provision— (1) there are authorized to be appropriated to the agency such sums as may be necessary to make those additional payments; and (2) the head of the agency may make those additional payments only to the extent additional amounts are made available for those purposes. (c) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 30 days after the date on which the head of an agency submits to Congress a request for supplemental appropriations for the purposes described in subsection (b), Congress should take action with respect to that request.