[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5343 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5343

To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
 to submit a report to Congress on case management personnel turnover, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2021

 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself and Ms. Mace) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
 to submit a report to Congress on case management personnel turnover, 
                        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 ``FEMA Caseworker Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON STAFF TURNOVER.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall submit 
to Congress a report containing--
            (1) the turnover rate for case management personnel of the 
        Agency;
            (2) the average and median length of employment for the 
        personnel described in paragraph (1);
            (3) the steps that the Agency is taking, or plans to take, 
        to lower the rate of turnover for the personnel described in 
        paragraph (1);
            (4) the number of personnel of the Agency that is detailed 
        to work disaster recovery and then return to such personnel's 
        full time assignment after a disaster, disaggregated by full-
        time, part-time, temporary, and contract personnel; and
            (5) the average time and median length of the rotations of 
        personnel described in paragraph (4) and how often rotations 
        and reassignment of personnel occur for each disaster recovery 
        position and function, disaggregated by full-time, part-time, 
        temporary, and contract personnel.
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