[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1951 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1951

  To increase the Federal share provided under the Robert T. Stafford 
 Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for a certain time frame 
                        during fiscal year 2020.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2021

  Mr. Thompson of California (for himself, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Bera, Mr. 
  Carbajal, Mr. Costa, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. 
 Huffman, Mr. Khanna, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Lofgren, 
  Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Norton, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Roybal-
   Allard, and Ms. Speier) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To increase the Federal share provided under the Robert T. Stafford 
 Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for a certain time frame 
                        during fiscal year 2020.

    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 ``Increase Federal Disaster Cost Share 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE OF FEDERAL SHARE.

    Notwithstanding sections 403(b), 403(c)(4), 404(a), 406(b), 408(d), 
408(g)(2), 428(e)(2)(B), and 503(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 10 (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), for 
any emergency or major disaster declared by the President under such 
Act during the period beginning on January 1, 2020, and ending on 
December 31, 2020, the Federal share of assistance provided under such 
sections shall be not less than 90 percent of the eligible cost of such 
assistance.
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