# 119-hr-5395: Disaster Relief Disbursement Accountability Act

119-hr-5395, Disaster Relief Disbursement Accountability Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rescom. Hernández, Pablo Jose [D-PR-At Large] (D-PR); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5395
- Congress: 119
- Title: Disaster Relief Disbursement Accountability Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-09-16
- Sponsor: Rescom. Hernández, Pablo Jose [D-PR-At Large] (D-PR)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Emergency Management
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## 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. - 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.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26] (D-NY), 2025-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-4] (D-AZ), 2025-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Faster disaster aid and yearly reports: benefit, medium. 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…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-5395 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5395)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51)
- [119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5390)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5395 (as of 2026-04-21).