I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4197 
To provide for the recovery, reclamation, restoration and reconstruction of 
lives and communities and for the reunion of families devastated by 
Hurricane Katrina and to address the issues of poverty exposed by 
Hurricane Katrina. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 2, 2005 
Mr. WATT (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. OWENS, Mr. TOWNS, 
Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. JEFFERSON, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 
WATERS, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. 
CLYBURN, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of 
Texas, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. WYNN, Mr. THOMPSON 
of Mississippi, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. JACKSON 
of Illinois, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. CARSON, 
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. FORD, Ms. KILPATRICK 
of Michigan, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. LEE, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, 
Mr. CLAY, Ms. WATSON, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. MEEK of Florida, 
Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. CLEAV-
ER, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, and Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial 
Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, 
Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and 
Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the recovery, reclamation, restoration and 
reconstruction of lives and communities and for the re-
union of families devastated by Hurricane Katrina and
to address the issues of poverty exposed by Hurricane 
Katrina. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Hurricane Katrina Recovery, Reclamation, Restoration, 
Reconstruction and Reunion Act of 2005’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. General findings. 
TITLE I—VICTIM RESTORATION FUND 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Definitions. 
Sec. 103. Purpose. 
Sec. 104. Administration. 
Sec. 105. Determination of eligibility for compensation. 
Sec. 106. Payments to eligible individuals. 
Sec. 107. Regulations. 
TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 201. Environmental findings. 
Sec. 202. Comprehensive plan. 
Sec. 203. Notification of public and professionals. 
Sec. 204. Training for responders and clean-up workers. 
Sec. 205. Public health assessment and monitoring. 
Sec. 206. Independent review. 
Sec. 207. Expiration. 
TITLE III—HEALTH PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—Repair and Access 
Sec. 301. Repair and disparities grants. 
Sec. 302. Disaster relief Medicaid. 
Subtitle B—Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) 
Sec. 311. Reimbursement of States for TANF benefits provided to assist fami-
lies from other States affected by Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 312. Increase in amount of additional TANF funds available for hurri-
cane-damaged States.
Sec. 313. Rules for receipt of Hurricane Katrina Emergency TANF Benefits 
and application to child support requirements. 
Sec. 314. Authority to use funds in individual development accounts for car 
ownership, maintenance and insurance. 
Subtitle C—Unemployment Compensation 
Sec. 321. Federal-State agreements. 
Sec. 322. Requirements relating to regular compensation. 
Sec. 323. Requirements relating to emergency extended unemployment com-
pensation. 
Sec. 324. Payments to States. 
Sec. 325. Financing provisions. 
Sec. 326. Definitions. 
Sec. 327. Applicability. 
Subtitle D—Health Insurance Coverage 
Sec. 331. Temporary emergency health coverage assistance for businesses and 
individuals. 
Sec. 332. Authority to postpone certain deadlines related to individual health 
coverage by reason of presidentially declared disaster or terror-
istic or military action. 
TITLE IV—HOUSING AND COMMUNITY REBUILDING 
Sec. 401. Definitions. 
Sec. 402. Public housing capital fund reserves for emergencies and natural dis-
asters. 
Sec. 403. HOPE VI program. 
Sec. 404. HOME Investment Partnerships program. 
Sec. 405. Community development block grant assistance. 
Sec. 406. CDBG loan guarantee program. 
Sec. 407. Youthbuild program. 
Sec. 408. Capacity building for community development and affordable housing. 
Sec. 409. Emergency rental assistance vouchers. 
Sec. 410. Prohibition of placement of families in substandard dwelling units. 
Sec. 411. Fair housing enforcement. 
Sec. 412. Housing counseling for families in temporary shelters. 
Sec. 413. Availability of HUD inventory properties. 
Sec. 414. Hurricane Katrina mortgage protection fund. 
Sec. 415. Housing priority for military personnel. 
TITLE V—EDUCATION PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
Sec. 501. Definitions. 
Subtitle B—Early Childhood Programs Assistance 
PART 1—EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR CONTINUATION OF SERVICES UNDER 
CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT ACT OF 1990 
Sec. 511. Emergency assistance for services under Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990. 
Sec. 512. Authorization of appropriations.
PART 2—WAIVER AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES UNDER CHILD CARE 
AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT ACT OF 1990 
Sec. 521. Waiver authority to expand the availability of services under Child 
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. 
Sec. 522. Authorization of appropriations. 
PART 3—EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR CONTINUATION OF HEAD START 
SERVICES 
Sec. 531. Emergency assistance for Head Start services. 
Sec. 532. Authorization of appropriations. 
PART 4—WAIVER AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE HEAD START SERVICES 
Sec. 541. Waiver authority to expand the availability of Head Start services. 
Sec. 542. Technical assistance, guidance, and resources. 
Subtitle C—Relief for Elementary and Secondary Schools 
Sec. 551. Education and pupil services for elementary and secondary students 
relocated because of Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 552. Immediate Aid to Restart Public School Operations. 
Sec. 553. Grants for LEA’s serving relocated children with disabilities. 
Sec. 554. Assistance for homeless youth. 
Sec. 555. Grants for activities at community learning centers. 
Sec. 556. Grants for construction, modernization, or repair of school facilities. 
Sec. 557. Katrina teachers incentive program. 
Sec. 558. Expedited Applications for Teacher Recruitment Grants. 
Sec. 559. Use of grant funds for major disasters. 
Subtitle D—Relief for Institutions of Higher Education 
Sec. 561. Findings; Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 562. Institutional Grants for Recruitment and Retention. 
Sec. 563. Loan forgiveness. 
Sec. 564. Regulations. 
Sec. 565. Emergency designations. 
Sec. 566. Definitions. 
TITLE VI—VOTING RIGHTS 
Sec. 601. Short title. 
Sec. 602. Applicability of protections for absent military and overseas voters to 
Katrina evacuees. 
Sec. 603. Grants to States for Restoring and Replacing Election Administration 
Supplies, Materials, and Equipment Damaged by Hurricane 
Katrina. 
TITLE VII—FINANCIAL SERVICES PROVISIONS 
Sec. 701. Hurricane Katrina regulatory relief. 
Sec. 702. Flexibility in capital and net worth standards for small affected insti-
tutions. 
Sec. 703. Waiver of Federal Reserve Board fees for certain services. 
Sec. 704. Waiver of certain limitation on certain bank investments to promote 
the public welfare.
Sec. 705. Emergency authority to guarantee checks cashed for victims of Hur-
ricane Katrina. 
Sec. 706. Technical assistance for minority institutions. 
Sec. 707. Implementing Katrina disaster relief through the CDFI Fund. 
TITLE VIII—EXPANDED OPPORTUNITY AND SMALL BUSINESS 
PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—Expanded Opportunity 
Sec. 801. Reinstatement of Davis-Bacon wage requirements. 
Sec. 802. Increased procurement goal for certain Federal contracts for recovery 
from Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 803. Local participation goal for participation in Federal procurement con-
tracts in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 804. Requirement for hurricane recovery-related contracts to require 40 
percent of contract workers be local residents. 
Sec. 805. Requirement for hurricane recovery-related contracts to include finan-
cial incentives for contractors to meet goals specified in the 
contracts. 
Sec. 806. Apprenticeship and other requirements for post-hurricane reconstruc-
tion. 
Sec. 807. Restatement of full application of statutory requirements of equal em-
ployment opportunity applicable to contracts and subcontracts 
to provide Hurricane Katrina relief. 
Subtitle B—Disaster Loans and Small Business Relief 
Sec. 811. Definitions. 
Sec. 812. Disaster loans after Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 813. Nationwide disaster loans. 
Sec. 814. Small business emergency relief. 
Sec. 815. Authorization of appropriations for business counseling. 
Sec. 816. Small business development centers. 
Sec. 817. HUBZones. 
Sec. 818. Small business bonding threshold. 
Sec. 819. Loan defaults. 
Sec. 820. Budgetary treatment of loans and financings. 
Sec. 821. Emergency procurement authority. 
TITLE IX—TAX PROVISIONS 
Sec. 901. Home purchase by victims of Hurricane Katrina. 
Sec. 902. Relief through low-income housing credit relating to Hurricane 
Katrina. 
Sec. 903. Tax exempt bonds for qualified gulf coast recovery projects. 
TITLE X—BANKRUPTCY 
Sec. 1001. Short title. 
Sec. 1002. Definitions; who may be a debtor. 
Sec. 1003. Amendment to chapter 3. 
Sec. 1004. Amendments to chapter 5. 
Sec. 1005. Amendments to chapter 7. 
Sec. 1006. Amendments to chapter 11. 
Sec. 1007. Amendments to chapter 13. 
Sec. 1008. Amendment to title 28 of the United States Code.