# 115-hr-3452: Relief for Recovering Communities Act

115-hr-3452, Relief for Recovering Communities Act, is a 115th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14] (R-TX); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 115-hr-3452
- Congress: 115
- Title: Relief for Recovering Communities Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Introduced: 2017-07-27
- Sponsor: Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14] (R-TX)
- Cosponsors: 8
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Relief for Recovering Communities Act This bill requires the Department of Transportation to treat an area as an "urbanized area" following a major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act until the second decennial census conducted after such disaster if: the population of the area fell below 50,000 as a result of such disaster; the area was defined and designated as such by the Department of Commerce in the decennial census immediately preceding such disaster, beginning with the 2000 decennial census; and the area was not so defined and designated in the decennial census immediately following such disaster. An area treated as an urbanized area shall be assigned the population and square miles of the urban cluster with respect to the area designated by Commerce in the most recent decennial census. This designation as an urbanized area permits an application for federal transit funding based upon population levels in the area prior to the major disaster.

## Cosponsors (8)

- Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17] (R-TX), 2017-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
- JOHN CULBERSON (R-TX), 2017-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27] (R-TX), 2017-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
- GENE GREEN (D-TX), 2017-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36] (R-TX), 2017-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC), 2017-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (D-TX), 2017-10-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12] (R-TX), 2017-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [115-hr-3452 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3452)

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- [115-hr-4714: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Don and Deyon Stephens, Founders of Merc…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-4714)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-3452 (as of 2025-11-18).