[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6416 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6416

To direct the President to detail Peace Corps volunteers to the Federal 
          Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2020

Mr. Quigley (for himself, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Haaland, and Ms. Schakowsky) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the President to detail Peace Corps volunteers to the Federal 
          Emergency Management Agency, 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 ``Mobilizing America to Help Act''.

SEC. 2. DETAIL OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY 
              MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

    The President shall exercise the authority provided for in section 
5(h) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(h)) to detail or assign 
Peace Corps volunteers or otherwise make such volunteers available to 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency during an emergency period (as 
defined in section 1135(g)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1320b-5(g)(1))) resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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