Disaster Assistance Fairness and Accountability Act of 2017

Disaster Assistance Fairness and Accountability Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from taking any action to recoup major disaster assistance from a recipient that received such assistance more than three years before FEMA first provided such recipient written notification of an intent to recoup it unless there is evidence of fraud.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3176 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3176

  To prohibit the Federal Emergency Management Agency from recouping 
              certain assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2017

 Mr. MacArthur (for himself, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. 
 Graves of Louisiana, Mr. Delaney, Mr. Jones, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Curbelo 
    of Florida, Mr. Polis, Mr. Meeks, and Mr. Faso) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Federal Emergency Management Agency from recouping 
              certain assistance, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Disaster Assistance Fairness and 
Accountability Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. RECOUPMENT OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE PROHIBITED.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 3716(e) of title 31, 
United States Code, the Federal Emergency Management Agency may not 
take any action to recoup covered assistance from the recipient of such 
assistance if the receipt of such assistance occurred on a date that is 
more than 3 years before the date on which the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency first provides to the recipient written notification 
of an intent to recoup.
    (b) Covered Assistance Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered assistance'' means assistance provided--
            (1) under section 408 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
        Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174); and
            (2) in relation to a major disaster declared by the 
        President under section 401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) on or 
        after January 1, 2012.
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