To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to disaster recovery, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-8456
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2024-05-17
Policy area: Emergency Management
Latest action: action_date: 2024-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-05-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to take any actions that may be necessary to implement the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) priority recommendations within the report titled <em>Disaster Recovery: Actions Needed to Improve the Federal Approach</em>, which was published on November 15, 2022. In the report, the GAO recommends that FEMA and HUD better manage fragmentation between their disaster recovery programs and other federal programs, and that FEMA better manage fragmentation across FEMA’s own disaster recovery programs. &nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8456 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 17, 2024 Ms. Jacobs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure , and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services , 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 A BILL To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to disaster recovery, and for other purposes.

1. Implementation of GAO recommendations The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement the priority recommendations of the Comptroller General of the United States contained in the report published on November 15, 2022 and titled Disaster Recovery: Actions Needed to Improve the Federal Approach (GAO–23–104956).