Disaster Survivors Fairness Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1245 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1245 To improve individual assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 12, 2025 Mr. Edwards (for himself, Ms. Titus, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Neguse) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To improve individual assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Disaster Survivors Fairness Act of 2025''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Information sharing for federal agencies. Sec. 3. Universal application for individual assistance. Sec. 4. Repair and rebuilding. Sec. 5. Direct assistance. Sec. 6. State-managed housing pilot authority. Sec. 7. Management costs. Sec. 8. Funding for online guides for post-disaster assistance. Sec. 9. Individual assistance dashboard. Sec. 10. FEMA reports. Sec. 11. Sheltering of emergency response personnel. Sec. 12. Improved rental assistance. Sec. 13. GAO report on preliminary damage assessments. Sec. 14. Applicability. Sec. 15. GAO report to Congress on challenges under public assistan