Bill Details
HR.732 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Introduced Date
2025-01-24
Policy Area
Emergency Management
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out key recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office about how the federal government handles disaster recovery. In simple terms, it is meant to improve how federal disaster aid is organized and delivered so recovery efforts work better after major disasters.
- FEMA and HUD would have to act on the GAO’s “priority recommendations” from a November 15, 2022 report about disaster recovery.
- The goal is to make the federal response to disasters more efficient and better coordinated.
- The bill does not create a new disaster program; it focuses on making existing agencies follow recommended improvements.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 732 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 732
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain
recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to
disaster recovery, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 24, 2025
Ms. Jacobs (for herself, Mr. Whitesides, Ms. Friedman, and Ms. Rivas)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on
Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain
recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to
disaster recovery, 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 ``The Disaster Recovery Efficiency
Act''.
SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF GAO RECOMMENDATIONS.
The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take such actions
as may be necessary to implement the priority recommendations of the
Comptroller General of the United States contained in the report
published on November 15, 2022, and titled ``Disaster Recovery: Actions
Needed to Improve the Federal Approach'' (GAO-23-104956).
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