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Disaster Relief Disbursement Accountability Act
Sponsored By: Representative Rescom. Hernández, Pablo Jose [D-PR-At Large]
In Committee
Summary
Speeds disaster grant payments and creates timing reports on how quickly money reaches local recipients. This bill would require the FEMA Administrator to take actions to ensure funds under the hazard mitigation grant program (section 404) and key public assistance programs (sections 403, 406, 407, 428, and 502) are disbursed as expediently as possible after a project is approved.
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- Grant recipients like states, tribes, and local governments would file a one-time report within 1 year describing the average time they take to pass assistance to subrecipients for disasters where aid is still being disbursed.
- For future major disasters or emergencies, those recipients would submit an annual report on average disbursement time to subrecipients.
- The FEMA Administrator would be required to act to speed disbursements and to send Congress a summary of these recipient reports no later than 3 years after enactment and annually thereafter.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Faster disaster aid and yearly reports
If enacted, FEMA’s Administrator would work to get approved disaster funds out as fast as possible, including hazard mitigation and public assistance projects. Recipients of these funds for each major disaster or emergency would need to report how long they take to pass money to subrecipients. For disasters already declared and still paying out on the date of enactment, a report would be due no later than 1 year after enactment. For disasters declared after enactment, recipients would file this report every year. FEMA would send Congress a summary of these timing data within 3 years after enactment and then each year after.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rescom. Hernández, Pablo Jose [D-PR-At Large]
PR • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26]
NY • D
Sponsored 9/16/2025
Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-4]
AZ • D
Sponsored 9/16/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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