MI SR0121

Urges Congress to enact legislation defining freeze emergencies as major disasters eligible for federal disaster relief and emergency assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

References severe winter weather in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during 2013-14 that caused over $19 million in damages across the Upper Peninsula and three northern Lower Peninsula counties, including frozen pipes affecting approximately 25 percent of customers in Negaunee.

Notes that extreme cold weather events like freezes and prolonged freezes are not expressly listed as major disasters in current federal law, despite causing significant infrastructure damage comparable to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and snowstorms.

Directs copies of the resolution be transmitted to the President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Michigan's congressional delegation.