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<item congress="114" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4288" measure-id="id114hr4288" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2015-12-17" update-date="2016-02-19">
<title>FEMA Help and Education for Local Partners Act (FEMA HELP Act)</title>
<summary summary-id="id114hr4288v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2016-02-19">
<action-date>2015-12-17</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>FEMA Help and Education for Local Partners Act (FEMA HELP Act)</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish and convene a multi-agency federal disaster assistance team to work and coordinate with state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders to develop a comprehensive approach to disaster recovery by using a full range of federal program funding resources through collaboration among FEMA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Highway Administration, the Small Business Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the Department of Defense, the Army Corps of Engineers, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.</p> <p>FEMA shall: (1) ensure that each coordinating officer is trained in a range of applicable disaster recovery funding programs across the team members, and (2) establish and publish guidelines and criteria for making and communicating decisions regarding funding eligibility and requirements for disaster recovery personnel across the team members. </p>]]></summary-text>
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