To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide certain individuals or households affected by Hurricane Katrina in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, with financial assistance and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster and Emergency Assistance Act.

Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide financial assistance and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to individuals or households in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, who suffered home destruction or severe damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3723 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3723

 To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
provide certain individuals or households affected by Hurricane Katrina 
in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, with financial assistance 
and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster and Emergency 
                            Assistance Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 8, 2005

 Ms. Wasserman Schultz (for herself, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, 
Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Mica, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Shaw, 
    Mr. Wexler, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of 
Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Davis of Florida, Mr. Miller of Florida, 
Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Mr. Keller, Ms. Harris, Mr. Mack, Mr. 
 Foley, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Putnam, Mr. Boyd, 
     Mr. Stearns, Mr. Young of Florida, and Mr. Weldon of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
provide certain individuals or households affected by Hurricane Katrina 
in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, with financial assistance 
and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 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. PROHIBIT STATE MINIMUM THRESHOLD.

    Notwithstanding the individual assistance factors described in part 
206.48(b) of title 44, Code of Federal Regulations, the Director of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall provide assistance and 
services described in section 408 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174) to individuals or 
households in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, who suffered 
home destruction or severe damage from Hurricane Katrina in August of 
2005.
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