[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5641 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5641

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to increase the threshold for eligibility for assistance 
   under sections 403, 406, 407, and 502 of such Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2021

   Mr. Graves of Missouri (for himself, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Webster of 
   Florida, and Ms. Titus) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to increase the threshold for eligibility for assistance 
   under sections 403, 406, 407, and 502 of such Act, 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 ``Small Project Efficient and 
Effective Disaster Recovery Act'' or the ``SPEED Recovery Act''.

SEC. 2. SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE.

    Section 422 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5189) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``$35,000'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``$1,000,000''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(3)--
                    (A) in the heading by inserting ``and report'' 
                after ``Review''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``and submit to the Committee on 
                Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 
                and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report 
                regarding such review, including any recommendations 
                developed pursuant to such review'' after ``under this 
                section''.
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