Title: Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act
This bill increases the maximum amount of funding available in FY2021 and FY2022 for temporary assistance for U.S. citizens and their dependents who are returning from foreign countries due to a crisis and are without available resources. Under current law, the Department of Health and Human Services may provide assistance such as money payments and medical care to these individuals on a temporary basis. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending that is exempt from pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules and other budget enforcement procedures.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5085 Considered and Passed House (CPH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5085

 To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority 
   for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States 
   citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 24, 2021

 Mr. Neal (for himself and Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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

                            August 24, 2021

The Committees on Ways and Means and the Budget discharged; considered 
                               and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority 
   for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States 
   citizens returned from foreign countries, 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 ``Emergency Repatriation Assistance 
for Returning Americans Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year 2020, the total 
amount of such assistance provided during such fiscal year shall not 
exceed $10,000,000'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the 
total amount of such assistance provided during each such fiscal year 
shall not exceed $10,000,000''.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--
            (1) In general.--The amounts provided by the amendment made 
        by this section are designated as an emergency requirement 
        pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
        2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
            (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section and 
        the amendment made by this section are designated as an 
        emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. 
        Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for fiscal year 2022.
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