Title: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act concerning the statute of limitations for actions to recover disaster or emergency assistance payments, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
This bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to prohibit any administrative action to recover any payment made to a state or local government for disaster or emergency assistance initiated in any forum (with exceptions for fraud) after three years following the transmission of the final expenditure report for project completion, as certified by the grantee (currently, after three years following the transmission of the final expenditure report for the disaster or emergency).
Such revised prohibition shall apply to any such payment provided on or after January 1, 2004. Any administrative action to recover such a payment that is pending on the date of enactment of this bill shall be terminated.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1678 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1678

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act concerning the statute of limitations for actions to 
   recover disaster or emergency assistance payments, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2017

    Ms. Frankel of Florida (for herself and Mr. Webster of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
  Assistance Act concerning the statute of limitations for actions to 
   recover disaster or emergency assistance payments, 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. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 705(a)(1) of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5205(a)(1)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Except'' and inserting ``Notwithstanding 
        section 3716(e) of title 31, United States Code, and except''; 
        and
            (2) by striking ``report for the disaster or emergency'' 
        and inserting ``report for project completion as certified by 
        the grantee''.
    (b) Applicability.--
            (1) In general.--With respect to disaster or emergency 
        assistance provided to a State or local government on or after 
        January 1, 2004--
                    (A) no administrative action may be taken to 
                recover a payment of such assistance after the date of 
                enactment of this Act if the action is prohibited under 
                section 705(a)(1) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
                Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
                5205(a)(1)), as amended by subsection (a); and
                    (B) any administrative action to recover a payment 
                of such assistance that is pending on such date of 
                enactment shall be terminated if the action is 
                prohibited under section 705(a)(1) of that Act, as 
                amended by subsection (a).
            (2) Limitation.--This section, including the amendments 
        made by this section, may not be construed to invalidate or 
        otherwise affect any administration action completed before the 
        date of enactment of this Act.
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