HR 834
Disaster Assistance Fairness Act
Summary
Disaster Assistance Fairness Act This bill makes common interest communities, such as housing cooperatives (co-ops) and condominiums, and manufactured housing communities eligible for the same assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as other homeowners. Specifically, the bill adds definitions of residential common interest community, condominium, housing cooperative, and manufactured housing community to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; requires FEMA to issue rules for the removal of debris or wreckage from real estate owned by a residential common interest community, condominium, co-op, or manufactured housing community resulting from a major disaster and deems such removal to be in the public interest when a state or local government determines in writing that such debris or wreckage constitutes a threat to life, public health or safety, or the economic recovery of such community; and provides for the repair of essential common elements of a condominium, co-op, or manufactured housing community damaged by a disaster under FEMA's Individuals and Households Program.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. David Rouzer [R-NC-7]
- Cosponsors
- 10
- Policy area
- Emergency Management
- Introduced
- 2025-01-31
- Latest action
- 2025-02-01: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-02-01: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- 2025-01-31: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- 2025-01-31: Introduced in House
- 2025-01-31: Introduced in House