HOUSE 834119th CongressReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Supporting the goals and ideals of Red Ribbon Week during the period of October 23 through October 31, 2025.
- Last Action
- 10/28/2025
Actions
- 2025-02-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- 2025-01-31Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- 2025-01-31Introduced in House
- 2025-01-31Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2025-01-31 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (10)
- Ritchie Torres (D-NY)
- Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
- Brittany Pettersen (D-CO)
- Byron Donalds (R-FL)
- Eleanor Norton (D-DC)
- W. Steube (R-FL)
- Joe Neguse (D-CO)
- Nellie Pou (D-NJ)
- Eugene Vindman (D-VA)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
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