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119-hr-8291119th CongressWALLET

Reforming Disaster Recovery Act

Sponsored By: Representative Green, Al [D-TX-9]

Introduced

Summary

Long-Term Disaster Recovery Fund would be created in the Treasury and a HUD-run Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery Program would speed long-term housing, infrastructure, mitigation, and resilience in catastrophic major disasters.

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  • Low- and moderate-income families and households would be prioritized. Grantees must dedicate at least 70% of grant funds to activities that benefit LMI persons.
  • State and local grantees would get formula-driven CDBG disaster recovery grants and must submit a comprehensive plan within 90 days. Grantees generally must obligate and use funds within six years or have unused amounts recaptured.
  • The bill would allow preliminary grants up to $5 million to speed early recovery and authorizes mitigation allocations up to 30% of unmet needs to cut repetitive losses. It also creates a HUD Office of Disaster Management and Resiliency, requires deadlines for rulemaking, mandates public dashboards and reporting, and permits data sharing with FEMA and the Small Business Administration under privacy safeguards.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

New long-term disaster recovery fund

If enacted, the bill would create a Long-Term Disaster Recovery Fund in the Treasury. The Fund would hold amounts Congress appropriates, transfers, and recaptured Community Development Fund balances. Two percent of each amount put into the Fund would be set aside for pre-disaster planning, technical help, readiness, IT, and HUD staff costs. Money in the Fund would remain available until spent.

More recovery grants for hardest-hit areas

If enacted, HUD would make Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery awards from the Fund to States, local governments, and tribes for the most impacted and distressed areas. Grants must target housing, infrastructure, economic recovery, and mitigation, and may not pay costs already reimbursed by FEMA or the Army Corps. At least 70% of each grant’s dollars must benefit low- and moderate-income people unless HUD issues a narrow waiver. Grants could include an interim mitigation set-aside equal to 15% of estimated unmet needs, with a final option up to 30% under later rules.

New HUD disaster office and deadlines

If enacted, HUD would create an Office of Disaster Management and Resiliency to coordinate recovery and resilience work across HUD, FEMA, and SBA. The bill would also require HUD to publish proposed rules within six months after enactment and final rules within one year. These deadlines aim to give grantees clearer, faster guidance on how the new program would operate.

Use federal reviews to speed projects

If enacted, a grantee that supplements certain Federal disaster aid could adopt a Federal agency environmental review instead of doing a new review. That adoption would satisfy the grantee's environmental review duties and can let HUD or a State release funds immediately when the action is already reviewed or is categorically excluded. The bill would also let FEMA and SBA share disaster applicant data with HUD, including needed personal information, to reduce duplicate payments and match benefits. HUD would have to sign data agreements, publish its intent, and include privacy safeguards.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Green, Al [D-TX-9]

TX • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 6/8/2026

  • Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]

    CO • D

    Sponsored 6/30/2026

  • Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 8/3/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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