Number: RL32287 Title: Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities in the States, District of Columbia, and Insular Areas: A Summary Authors: Keith Bea, L. Cheryl Runyon, and Kae M. Warnock, Government and Finance Division Abstract: This report summarizes a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. Pages: 15 Date: March 17, 2004