[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2956 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2956
To amend chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, to require the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to annually submit to
Congress a report on all disaster-related assistance provided by the
Federal Government.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 17, 2025
Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Obernolte, Ms. Scholten, Mr. Valadao, Mr.
Moskowitz, and Mr. Womack) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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A BILL
To amend chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, to require the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to annually submit to
Congress a report on all disaster-related assistance provided by the
Federal Government.
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 ``Disclosing Aid Spent to Ensure
Relief Act of 2025'' or the ``DISASTER Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) At a time of constrained budgets, it is fiscally
prudent to understand the amount and the scope of the Federal
Government's involvement in providing disaster-related
assistance to communities in need.
(2) The Federal Government does not provide a single,
publicly available estimate of the amount it is spending on
disaster-related assistance.
(3) Because recovery is a long-term process, providing
disaster-related assistance requires significant Federal
resources to support a multi-agency, multi-year restoration of
infrastructure and commerce in affected communities.
(4) Understanding the expenditures of individual Federal
agencies for disaster-related assistance will help better
inform the congressional appropriations process, as well as
presidential budget requests.
(5) Knowledge about disaster-related expenses will
illustrate opportunities for reducing these expenses through
efforts to reduce vulnerabilities to future natural disasters.
SEC. 3. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to require the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to annually submit to Congress a report on all
disaster-related assistance provided by the Federal Government.
SEC. 4. REPORTING OF DISASTER-RELATED ASSISTANCE.
(a) In General.--Chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 1127. Reporting of disaster-related assistance
``(a) In General.--On the same day that the President makes the
annual budget submission to the Congress under section 1105(a) for a
fiscal year, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
submit to Congress a report on Federal disaster-related assistance for
the fiscal year ending in the calendar year immediately preceding the
calendar year in which the annual budget submission is made. Disaster-
related assistance encompasses Federal obligations related to disaster
response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, as well as administrative
costs associated with these activities, including spending by the
following agencies and programs:
``(1) Department of Agriculture:
``(A) Agriculture Research Service.
``(B) Farm Service Agency.
``(C) Food and Nutrition Service.
``(D) Natural Resource Conservation Service.
``(E) Forest Service.
``(F) Rural Housing Service.
``(G) Rural Utilities Service.
``(2) Department of Commerce:
``(A) National Marine Fisheries Service of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
``(B) Economic Development Administration Economic
Adjustment Assistance.
``(3) Army Corps of Engineers of the Department of Defense
(Civil).
``(4) Department of Defense (Military):
``(A) Military Personnel.
``(B) Operations and Maintenance.
``(C) Procurement.
``(D) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation.
``(E) Military Construction (MILCON) and Family
Housing.
``(F) Management Funds.
``(G) Other Department of Defense Programs.
``(5) Department of Education:
``(A) Elementary and Secondary Education.
``(B) Higher Education.
``(6) Department of Health and Human Services:
``(A) Administration for Children and Families.
``(B) Public Health and Medical Assistance.
``(C) Public Health Emergency Fund.
``(7) Department of Homeland Security:
``(A) Federal Emergency Management Agency:
``(i) Emergency Declarations.
``(ii) Fire Management Assistance Grants.
``(iii) Major Disaster Declarations.
``(iv) Administrative Assistance.
``(B) FEMA Missions Assignments by Federal Agency.
``(C) Community Disaster Loan Program.
``(8) Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
``(A) Community Development Block Grants.
``(B) Rental Assistance/Section 8 Vouchers.
``(C) Supportive Housing.
``(D) Public Housing Repair.
``(E) Inspector General.
``(9) Department of the Interior:
``(A) Bureau of Indian Affairs.
``(B) United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
``(C) National Park Service.
``(D) Wildland Fire Management.
``(10) Department of Justice:
``(A) Legal Activities.
``(B) United States Marshals Service.
``(C) Federal Bureau of Investigation.
``(D) Drug Enforcement Administration.
``(E) Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
``(F) Federal Prison System (Bureau of Prisons).
``(G) Office of Justice Programs.
``(11) Department of Labor:
``(A) National Emergency Grants for Dislocation
Events.
``(B) Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Dislocated
Worker Program.
``(12) Department of Transportation:
``(A) Federal Highway Administration: Emergency
Relief Program (ER).
``(B) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
``(C) Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
``(13) Department of the Treasury: Internal Revenue
Service.
``(14) Department of Veterans Affairs.
``(15) Corporation for National and Community Service.
``(16) Environmental Protection Agency:
``(A) Hurricane Emergency Response Authorities.
``(B) EPA Hurricane Response.
``(C) EPA Regular Appropriations.
``(17) The Federal Judiciary.
``(18) Disaster Assistance Program of the Small Business
Administration.
``(19) Department of Energy:
``(A) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and
Emergency Response.
``(B) Office of Petroleum Services.
``(20) General Services Administration.
``(21) Other authorities as appropriate.
``(b) Content.--The report shall detail the following:
``(1) Overall amount of disaster-related assistance
obligations during the fiscal year.
``(2) Disaster-related assistance obligations by agency and
account.
``(3) Disaster for which the spending was obligated.
``(4) Obligations by disaster.
``(5) Disaster-related assistance by disaster type.
``(6) Response and recovery spending.
``(7) Mitigation spending.
``(8) Spending in the form of loans.
``(9) Spending in the form of grants.
``(c) Availability of Report.--The report shall be made publicly
available on the website of the Office of Management and Budget and
should be searchable, sortable and downloadable.''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of chapters for chapter 11 of
title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new item:
``1127. Reporting of disaster-related assistance.''.
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The reporting requirement under the amendment made by section 3(a)
shall take effect with the budget submission of the President under
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 2027.
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