[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1545 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1545

To ensure that after a declaration of a major disaster affected States, 
  local governments, and Indian tribal governments receive immediate 
approval for services and assistance provided under section 416 of the 
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2021

  Mr. Cardenas (for himself, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Blunt Rochester, and Mr. 
    Trone) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that after a declaration of a major disaster affected States, 
  local governments, and Indian tribal governments receive immediate 
approval for services and assistance provided under section 416 of the 
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

    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 ``Crisis Counseling Act''.

SEC. 2. CRISIS COUNSELING ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.

    After the President declares a major disaster under section 401 of 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance and Emergency Response Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170b), any request made by a State, local, or Indian tribal 
government affected by such disaster shall receive immediate approval 
for services and assistance provided under section 416 of such Act.
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