Title: To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of individual assistance and individual and household assistance provided to certain individuals and households and the rate of denial of such assistance, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of disaster assistance provided to individuals and households and the rate of denial of such assistance.
Further, FEMA must explain any factors causing an increase in the rate of denial.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7046 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7046

To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
    to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of 
individual assistance and individual and household assistance provided 
 to certain individuals and households and the rate of denial of such 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2022

 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Garamendi) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
    to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of 
individual assistance and individual and household assistance provided 
 to certain individuals and households and the rate of denial of such 
                  assistance, 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. FEMA REPORTS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall 
submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Government Affairs of the Senate a report with respect to fiscal year 
2016 through the most recent fiscal year ending before the date of 
enactment of this Act, and an annual report for any fiscal year 
beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act, describing--
            (1) the average amount of individual assistance and 
        individual and household assistance provided under section 408 
        of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174), and the rate of denial of 
        household assistance provided under such section, for--
                    (A) all applications for such assistance;
                    (B) applications containing a self-reported annual 
                income under 75 percent of the national median 
                household income (as calculated by the Bureau of the 
                Census);
                    (C) applications containing a self-reported annual 
                income over 125 percent of such national median 
                household income; and
                    (D) applications with a self-reported annual income 
                between 75 percent and 125 percent of such national 
                median household income; and
            (2) an explanation for any factors causing an increase in 
        the rate of denial of such assistance, if applicable.
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