To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish an identity verification system that ensures that disaster assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.

Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a system that verifies applicant identity in near-real time to ensure that disaster assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.

Requires the Director, in order to determine if an individual is qualified and ensure that the system is efficient, to: (1) establish registration criteria that provides simple but specific instructions to registrants regarding the required information; (2) require registrants to provide their name exactly as it appears on their social security card; (3) test the system prior to implementation; (4) ensure that call center employees give prompt feedback regarding whether the registrant's identity has been validated; and (5) establish an expeditious appeal and alternative verification process for a registrant who is rejected.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6001 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6001

 To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
 establish an identity verification system that ensures that disaster 
      assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2006

  Mr. Jindal 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 
 establish an identity verification system that ensures that disaster 
      assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DISASTER ASSISTANCE TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency shall establish an identity verification system that verifies 
applicant identity in near-real time to ensure that disaster assistance 
payments are paid only to qualified individuals.
    (b) Qualification.--To determine if an individual is qualified and 
ensure that the identity verification system referred to in subsection 
(a) is efficient, the Director shall--
            (1) establish detailed criteria for registration that 
        provides simple but specific instructions to registrants 
        regarding the identification information required;
            (2) require registrants to provide their name exactly as it 
        appears on their social security card to prevent name and 
        social security discrepancies;
            (3) test the identity verification system prior to 
        implementation;
            (4) ensure that call center employees give prompt feedback 
        to a registrant regarding whether or not the registrant's 
        identity has been validated; and
            (5) establish an expeditious appeal and an alternative 
        verification process for a registrant who is rejected through 
        the identity verification system.
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