Title: Post-Fire Flooding and Debris Flow Act of 2022
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Post-Fire Flooding and Debris Flow Act of 2022
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.
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 (currently, the President may contribute up to 75% of the cost).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4327 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4327

     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

                              May 26, 2022

Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Heinrich, and 
 Mrs. Murray) 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 ``Post-Fire Flooding and Debris Flow 
Act of 2022''.

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 
        Federal share of assistance under this section shall be not 
        less than 75 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) with respect to any area affected by a wildfire, 
        mitigating and preventing post-wildfire flooding and debris 
        flow.''.
    (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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