Hazard and Flooding Mitigation Funding Assurance Act

Subjects: Emergency Management

Summary:  <p><strong>Hazard and Flooding Mitigation Funding Assurance Act</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>This bill makes changes to eligibility under the hazard mitigation grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include mitigating and preventing post-wildfire flooding and debris flow.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires the federal share of hazard mitigation assistance for mitigating and preventing post-wildfire flooding and debris flow to be not less than 75% of the cost and permits the President to contribute 100% of the cost (currently, the President may contribute up to 75% of the cost).</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 485 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 485

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide hazard mitigation 
  assistance for mitigating and preventing post-wildfire flooding and 
                  debris flow, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 16, 2023

  Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide hazard mitigation 
  assistance for mitigating and preventing post-wildfire flooding and 
                  debris flow, 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 ``Hazard and Flooding Mitigation 
Funding Assurance Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO IMPROVE HAZARD MITIGATION ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief And Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``The President may 
        contribute up to 75 percent of the cost'' and inserting ``The 
        President shall contribute not less than 75 percent of the cost 
        and may contribute not more than 100 percent of the cost''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (13), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (14), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(15) mitigating post-wildfire flooding and debris flow 
        from burn scars.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply 
with respect to assistance provided under section 404 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c) 
on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
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