FEMA for Safe Recovery Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10281 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10281 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue guidance and regulations relating to preventing gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 3, 2026 Mrs. McBath (for herself and Ms. Lee of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue guidance and regulations relating to preventing gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation, 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 for Safe Recovery Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Gender-based violence.--The term ``gender-based violence'' means a crime of violence motivated by gender, as defined in section 40302(d)(1) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12361(d)(1)), or exploitation or abuse committed on the basis of gender and due, at least in part, to an animus based on the victim's gender, and includes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (as such terms are defined in section 40002(a) of such Act (34 U.S.C. 12291(a))), and trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Ac