[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 150 (Tuesday, August 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     EMERGENCY REPATRIATION ASSISTANCE FOR RETURNING AMERICANS ACT

  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent that the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on the 
Budget be discharged from further consideration of the bill (H.R. 5085) 
to amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority 
for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States 
citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other purposes, and 
ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Blunt Rochester). Is there objection to 
the request of the gentleman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 5085

       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 ``Emergency Repatriation 
     Assistance for Returning Americans Act''.

     SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE PAYMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year 
     2020, the total amount of such assistance provided during 
     such fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the total amount of such 
     assistance provided during each such fiscal year shall not 
     exceed $10,000,000''.
       (b) Emergency Designation.--
       (1) In general.--The amounts provided by the amendment made 
     by this section are designated as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act 
     of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
       (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section and 
     the amendment made by this section are designated as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. 
     Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on 
     the budget for fiscal year 2022.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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