[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4728 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4728

To authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
provide caseworker assistance to persons evacuated from their homes as 
            a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2006

   Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas (for herself and Mr. Marchant) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
provide caseworker assistance to persons evacuated from their homes as 
            a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.

    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 ``Community Integration Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to allow the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to contract with local governments and local agencies 
to provide evacuees with a wide range of social services.

SEC. 3. CASEWORKER SUPPORT FOR EVACUEES.

    Section 408 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (g), (h), and (i) as 
        subsections (h), (i), and (j), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) Caseworker Support for Evacuees.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is 
        authorized to provide caseworker assistance to individuals 
        evacuated from their principal place of residence and displaced 
        to another place as a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane 
        Rita in 2005, or both, and not able to return immediately to 
        their principal place of residence because of the 
        inhabitability of the structure.
            ``(2) Contracts.--The Agency may enter into contracts with 
        local governments and local agencies to provide assistance 
        under this subsection.
            ``(3) Federal share.--The Federal share of assistance under 
        this subsection shall be 100 percent of the activities for 
        which the assistance is provided.
            ``(4) Caseworker assistance defined.--In this subsection, 
        the term `caseworker assistance' includes assessing and 
        addressing an individual's needs with respect to community 
        integration, a job, school, meeting a mortgage or other loan 
        obligation, health, and mental health.''.
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