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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2956 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, to require the Director |
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| 6 | 6 | | of the Office of Management and Budget to annually submit to Congress |
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| 7 | 7 | | a report on all disaster-related assistance provided by the Federal Gov- |
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| 8 | 8 | | ernment. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | APRIL17, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. P |
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| 12 | 12 | | ETERS(for himself, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Ms. SCHOLTEN, Mr. VALADAO, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Mr. M |
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| 14 | 14 | | OSKOWITZ, and Mr. WOMACK) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 15 | 15 | | was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To amend chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, to |
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| 18 | 18 | | require the Director of the Office of Management and |
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| 19 | 19 | | Budget to annually submit to Congress a report on all |
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| 20 | 20 | | disaster-related assistance provided by the Federal Gov- |
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| 21 | 21 | | ernment. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disclosing Aid Spent 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | to Ensure Relief Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘DISASTER Act 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Congress finds the following: 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) At a time of constrained budgets, it is fis-3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | cally prudent to understand the amount and the 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | scope of the Federal Government’s involvement in 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | providing disaster-related assistance to communities 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | in need. 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) The Federal Government does not provide 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | a single, publicly available estimate of the amount it 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | is spending on disaster-related assistance. 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) Because recovery is a long-term process, 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | providing disaster-related assistance requires signifi-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | cant Federal resources to support a multi-agency, 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | multi-year restoration of infrastructure and com-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | merce in affected communities. 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (4) Understanding the expenditures of indi-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | vidual Federal agencies for disaster-related assist-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ance will help better inform the congressional appro-18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | priations process, as well as presidential budget re-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | quests. 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (5) Knowledge about disaster-related expenses 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | will illustrate opportunities for reducing these ex-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | penses through efforts to reduce vulnerabilities to 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | future natural disasters. 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SEC. 3. PURPOSE. 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | The purpose of this Act is to require the Director 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | of the Office of Management and Budget to annually sub-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | mit to Congress a report on all disaster-related assistance 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | provided by the Federal Government. 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | SEC. 4. REPORTING OF DISASTER-RELATED ASSISTANCE. 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (a) I |
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| 65 | 65 | | NGENERAL.—Chapter 11 of title 31, United 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | lowing new section: 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘§ 1127. Reporting of disaster-related assistance 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 70 | 70 | | NGENERAL.—On the same day that the Presi-11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | dent makes the annual budget submission to the Congress 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | under section 1105(a) for a fiscal year, the Director of 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | Congress a report on Federal disaster-related assistance 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | for the fiscal year ending in the calendar year immediately 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | preceding the calendar year in which the annual budget 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | submission is made. Disaster-related assistance encom-18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | passes Federal obligations related to disaster response, re-19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | covery, and mitigation efforts, as well as administrative 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | costs associated with these activities, including spending 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | by the following agencies and programs: 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(1) Department of Agriculture: 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ‘‘(A) Agriculture Research Service. 24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ‘‘(B) Farm Service Agency. 25 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(C) Food and Nutrition Service. 26 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(D) Natural Resource Conservation Serv-1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ice. 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ‘‘(E) Forest Service. 3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘(F) Rural Housing Service. 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ‘‘(G) Rural Utilities Service. 5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ‘‘(2) Department of Commerce: 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ‘‘(A) National Marine Fisheries Service of 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | istration. 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘(B) Economic Development Administra-10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | tion Economic Adjustment Assistance. 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ‘‘(3) Army Corps of Engineers of the Depart-12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ment of Defense (Civil). 13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | ‘‘(4) Department of Defense (Military): 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(A) Military Personnel. 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | ‘‘(B) Operations and Maintenance. 16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | ‘‘(C) Procurement. 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | ‘‘(D) Research, Development, Test, and 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | Evaluation. 19 |
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| 108 | 108 | | ‘‘(E) Military Construction (MILCON) and 20 |
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| 109 | 109 | | Family Housing. 21 |
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| 110 | 110 | | ‘‘(F) Management Funds. 22 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ‘‘(G) Other Department of Defense Pro-23 |
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| 112 | 112 | | grams. 24 |
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| 113 | 113 | | ‘‘(5) Department of Education: 25 |
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| 117 | 117 | | ‘‘(A) Elementary and Secondary Edu-1 |
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| 118 | 118 | | cation. 2 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ‘‘(B) Higher Education. 3 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ‘‘(6) Department of Health and Human Serv-4 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ices: 5 |
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| 122 | 122 | | ‘‘(A) Administration for Children and 6 |
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| 123 | 123 | | Families. 7 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ‘‘(B) Public Health and Medical Assist-8 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ance. 9 |
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| 126 | 126 | | ‘‘(C) Public Health Emergency Fund. 10 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ‘‘(7) Department of Homeland Security: 11 |
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| 128 | 128 | | ‘‘(A) Federal Emergency Management 12 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Agency: 13 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ‘‘(i) Emergency Declarations. 14 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(ii) Fire Management Assistance 15 |
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| 132 | 132 | | Grants. 16 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(iii) Major Disaster Declarations. 17 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ‘‘(iv) Administrative Assistance. 18 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ‘‘(B) FEMA Missions Assignments by 19 |
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| 136 | 136 | | Federal Agency. 20 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ‘‘(C) Community Disaster Loan Program. 21 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ‘‘(8) Department of Housing and Urban Devel-22 |
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| 139 | 139 | | opment (HUD): 23 |
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| 140 | 140 | | ‘‘(A) Community Development Block 24 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Grants. 25 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ‘‘(B) Rental Assistance/Section 8 Vouch-1 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ers. 2 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ‘‘(C) Supportive Housing. 3 |
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| 148 | 148 | | ‘‘(D) Public Housing Repair. 4 |
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| 149 | 149 | | ‘‘(E) Inspector General. 5 |
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| 150 | 150 | | ‘‘(9) Department of the Interior: 6 |
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| 151 | 151 | | ‘‘(A) Bureau of Indian Affairs. 7 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(B) United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-8 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ice. 9 |
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| 154 | 154 | | ‘‘(C) National Park Service. 10 |
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| 155 | 155 | | ‘‘(D) Wildland Fire Management. 11 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(10) Department of Justice: 12 |
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| 157 | 157 | | ‘‘(A) Legal Activities. 13 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘(B) United States Marshals Service. 14 |
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| 159 | 159 | | ‘‘(C) Federal Bureau of Investigation. 15 |
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| 160 | 160 | | ‘‘(D) Drug Enforcement Administration. 16 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(E) Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, and 17 |
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| 162 | 162 | | Explosives. 18 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(F) Federal Prison System (Bureau of 19 |
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| 164 | 164 | | Prisons). 20 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ‘‘(G) Office of Justice Programs. 21 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ‘‘(11) Department of Labor: 22 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ‘‘(A) National Emergency Grants for Dis-23 |
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| 168 | 168 | | location Events. 24 |
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| 172 | 172 | | ‘‘(B) Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 1 |
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| 173 | 173 | | Dislocated Worker Program. 2 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(12) Department of Transportation: 3 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ‘‘(A) Federal Highway Administration: 4 |
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| 176 | 176 | | Emergency Relief Program (ER). 5 |
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| 177 | 177 | | ‘‘(B) Federal Aviation Administration 6 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (FAA). 7 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ‘‘(C) Federal Transit Administration 8 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (FTA). 9 |
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| 181 | 181 | | ‘‘(13) Department of the Treasury: Internal 10 |
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| 182 | 182 | | Revenue Service. 11 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(14) Department of Veterans Affairs. 12 |
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| 184 | 184 | | ‘‘(15) Corporation for National and Community 13 |
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| 185 | 185 | | Service. 14 |
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| 186 | 186 | | ‘‘(16) Environmental Protection Agency: 15 |
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| 187 | 187 | | ‘‘(A) Hurricane Emergency Response Au-16 |
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| 188 | 188 | | thorities. 17 |
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| 189 | 189 | | ‘‘(B) EPA Hurricane Response. 18 |
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| 190 | 190 | | ‘‘(C) EPA Regular Appropriations. 19 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(17) The Federal Judiciary. 20 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ‘‘(18) Disaster Assistance Program of the Small 21 |
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| 193 | 193 | | Business Administration. 22 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(19) Department of Energy: 23 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(A) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Secu-24 |
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| 196 | 196 | | rity, and Emergency Response. 25 |
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| 200 | 200 | | ‘‘(B) Office of Petroleum Services. 1 |
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| 201 | 201 | | ‘‘(20) General Services Administration. 2 |
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| 202 | 202 | | ‘‘(21) Other authorities as appropriate. 3 |
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| 203 | 203 | | ‘‘(b) C |
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| 204 | 204 | | ONTENT.—The report shall detail the fol-4 |
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| 205 | 205 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ‘‘(1) Overall amount of disaster-related assist-6 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ance obligations during the fiscal year. 7 |
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| 208 | 208 | | ‘‘(2) Disaster-related assistance obligations by 8 |
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| 209 | 209 | | agency and account. 9 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ‘‘(3) Disaster for which the spending was obli-10 |
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| 211 | 211 | | gated. 11 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ‘‘(4) Obligations by disaster. 12 |
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| 213 | 213 | | ‘‘(5) Disaster-related assistance by disaster 13 |
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| 214 | 214 | | type. 14 |
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| 215 | 215 | | ‘‘(6) Response and recovery spending. 15 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ‘‘(7) Mitigation spending. 16 |
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| 217 | 217 | | ‘‘(8) Spending in the form of loans. 17 |
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| 218 | 218 | | ‘‘(9) Spending in the form of grants. 18 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘(c) A |
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| 220 | 220 | | VAILABILITY OFREPORT.—The report shall be 19 |
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| 221 | 221 | | made publicly available on the website of the Office of 20 |
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| 222 | 222 | | Management and Budget and should be searchable, sort-21 |
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| 223 | 223 | | able and downloadable.’’. 22 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (b) C |
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| 225 | 225 | | ONFORMINGAMENDMENT.—The table of chap-23 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ters for chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is 24 |
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| 227 | 227 | | amended by adding at the end the following new item: 25 |
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| 228 | 228 | | ‘‘1127. Reporting of disaster-related assistance.’’. |
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| 232 | 232 | | SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 1 |
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| 233 | 233 | | The reporting requirement under the amendment 2 |
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| 234 | 234 | | made by section 3(a) shall take effect with the budget sub-3 |
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| 235 | 235 | | mission of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, 4 |
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| 236 | 236 | | United States Code, for fiscal year 2027. 5 |
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