Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
Introduced
Makes disaster planning and response explicitly inclusive for older adults and people with disabilities. It would set civil-rights standards, require accessible communications and visitable housing, and create new grants and a rapid-response human services fund to improve outcomes before, during, and after disasters.
*Would authorize roughly $500 million per year for FY2026–2030 and therefore increase federal spending.*
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This bill would create a Disaster Human Services Emergency Fund at HHS to pay for human services after a declared major disaster, public health emergency, or when the Secretary finds significant risk. The fund would authorize $100 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and remain available until spent. HHS would give grants and contracts to states, Tribes, local agencies, and nonprofits for case management, accessible applications, home repairs, durable medical equipment, personal assistance, and related services. Grant recipients would reserve 5%–10% of each award for an independent evaluation, with final evaluation reports due to HHS within 90 days after a project ends.
This bill would require States and local governments to develop crisis standards of care for disasters and public health emergencies that comply with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and follow HHS Office for Civil Rights guidance from March 28, 2020. The standards would prohibit using race, disability, age, neighborhood, or class to decide who gets care and must protect children and covered individuals. States would need to involve covered individuals in planning and give clear guidance to clinicians when resources are scarce.
This bill would let HHS award competitive preparedness grants and contracts to states, Tribes, local agencies, nonprofits, and universities to strengthen inclusive human service preparedness. It would authorize $300 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and let HHS reserve up to 3% each year for administration. Grants could fund planning, partnerships among human services, public health and emergency management, staff costs for expert organizations, and other work to better serve older adults and people with disabilities.
This bill would fund regional Training, Technical Assistance, and Research Disability and Disaster Centers to train agencies, develop accessible practices, and study disaster outcomes for covered individuals. Grants would be $2.5 million to $10 million for five years, with no more than 25% of funds for research. HHS would award at least two grants per each of the 10 Federal regions and at least one per region focused only on training and technical assistance. The program would be authorized at $100 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, and HHS must report to Congress on activities by January 31, 2026 and January 31, 2028.
This bill would create competitive Projects of National Significance grants to support large, multi‑year work that improves preparedness and recovery for older adults and people with disabilities. Each award would generally be $2.5 million to $10 million and last 3 to 5 years. HHS would make at least four awards and require that covered individuals be included in project leadership and activities.
This bill would expand the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters from 17 to 45 members and add many new federal and non‑federal representatives, including disability community leaders, Tribal and territorial emergency managers, and a national older adults organization. It would add the Secretary of Transportation and the Director of Disability Policy for the Domestic Policy Council to the committee. The bill would authorize $500,000 per year for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 to support the committee.
This bill would require the Government Accountability Office to start, within 60 days of enactment, an investigation into whether Federal agencies followed the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act when spending disaster funds on or after January 1, 2005. The GAO would issue a report with recommendations not later than one year after enactment. Before finalizing its report, GAO would get input from the bill's advisory committees.
This bill would create a Disability and Disaster Preparedness Advisory Committee in the Department of Justice to review covered settlement agreements related to potential ADA or Rehabilitation Act violations tied to disasters. The Attorney General would appoint members within 60 days, including at least three non‑federal disability rights advocates who are individuals with disabilities. The Committee would issue a report to Congress within one year and would terminate 90 days after filing the report; non‑federal members would be paid at the daily rate equal to Executive Schedule level IV.
This bill would change several Stafford Act definitions used for disaster funding. It would define 'covered recipient' to mean organizations that receive disaster funds and would expressly exclude individuals and households from that term. It would define 'older adult' as age 50 or older, add 'access and functional needs,' and set 'visitability standards' to Type C units under ICC A117.1‑2009 or a successor standard.
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Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
CA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
CA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Rep. Mrvan, Frank J. [D-IN-1]
IN • D
Sponsored 4/13/2026
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