Official Summaries

Harmful Algal Bloom Disaster Relief Act

This bill explicitly authorizes the President to declare that a major disaster exists when algal blooms cause damage sufficient to warrant federal major disaster assistance.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1786 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1786

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act to include algal blooms in the definition of a major 
                   disaster, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2025

  Mr. Donalds (for himself and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act to include algal blooms in the definition of a major 
                   disaster, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Harmful Algal Bloom Disaster Relief 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ALGAL BLOOMS.

    Section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122) is amended by striking ``or 
drought'' and inserting ``drought, or algal blooms''.
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