I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5673 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act to make technical corrections to the hazard mitigation revolving 
loan fund program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2021 
Ms. TITUS (for herself and Mr. WEBSTER of Florida) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infra-
structure 
A BILL 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act to make technical corrections to 
the hazard mitigation revolving loan fund program, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Tomor-
row through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Technical Correc-
tions Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO HAZARD MITIGATION 
REVOLVING LOAN FUND PROGRAM. 
Section 205 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5135) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (C); 
(ii) at the end of subparagraph (A), 
by adding ‘‘and’’; and 
(iii) at the end of subparagraph (B), 
by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a period; 
(B) in paragraph (3)(D), by striking ‘‘local 
governments, insular areas, and Indian tribal 
governments’’ and inserting ‘‘local governments 
and Tribal governments’’; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (4); 
(2) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (B); and 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(C) through (D) as subparagraphs (B) 
through (C), respectively; and 
(B) in paragraph (5)— 
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(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘ESTABLISHING’’ and inserting ‘‘IM-
PLEMENTING’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘establish’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘implement’’; 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘2’’ after ‘‘latest’’; 
and 
(iv) by inserting ‘‘, including any 
amendments made by State, local, Tribal, 
or territorial governments to such codes, 
specifications, 
and 
standards,’’ 
after 
‘‘standards’’; and 
(3) in subsection (m)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (3) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-
tity’ means a State or an Indian tribal government 
that has received a major disaster declaration pursu-
ant to section 401.’’; 
(B) by striking paragraphs (5) and (10); 
(C) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(6) 
through (9) as paragraphs (5) through (8), re-
spectively; and 
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(D) by redesignating paragraph (11) as 
paragraph (9). 
Æ 
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