Official Summaries

Securing Taxpayer Assistance during Natural Disasters Act or the STAND Act

This bill prohibits the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development from obligating or expending federal funds for bilateral, multilateral, or humanitarian non-defense foreign assistance within the first 60 days following a presidentially declared major disaster. The prohibition may be waived if a joint resolution of Congress providing for such a waiver is enacted into law. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 459 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 459

   To withhold bilateral, multilateral, and humanitarian non-defense 
foreign assistance with respect to which of the President has declared 
 a disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                            Assistance Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To withhold bilateral, multilateral, and humanitarian non-defense 
foreign assistance with respect to which of the President has declared 
 a disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                            Assistance Act.

    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 ``Securing Taxpayer Assistance during 
Natural Disasters Act'' or the ``STAND Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHHOLDING OF BILATERAL, MULTILATERAL, AND HUMANITARIAN NON-
              DEFENSE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--No Federal funds may be obligated or expended by 
the Department of State or the United States Agency for International 
Development for bilateral, multilateral, or humanitarian non-defense 
foreign assistance within 60 days of the date on which a disaster has 
occurred and with respect to which of the President has declared a 
disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).
    (b) Waiver.--The prohibition under subsection (a) may be waived in 
accordance with the provisions of a joint resolution providing for such 
waiver that is enacted into law after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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