[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5703 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5703

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
   Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide professional 
counseling services to victims of emergencies declared under such Act, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2021

  Ms. Pressley (for herself, Ms. Titus, Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Meijer) 
 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 authorize the President to provide professional 
counseling services to victims of emergencies declared under 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 ``Post-Disaster Mental Health Response 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CRISIS COUNSELING ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.

    Section 502(a)(6) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5192(a)(6)) is amended by inserting 
``and section 416'' after ``section 408''.
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