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USA FIRST Act

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Introduced:
Feb 14, 2025
Policy Area:
Emergency Management

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Feb 14, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries (1)

Introduced in House - Feb 14, 2025 00
<p><strong>Unobligated Spending Adjustment to Focus Investment on Relief and Support for Taxpayers Act or the USA FIRST Act</strong></p><p>This bill transfers unobligated funds previously appropriated to the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) for general disaster relief for major disasters declared by the President. The&nbsp;DRF is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the activities it funds pursuant to major disaster declarations include domestic disaster response, recovery, and mitigation.</p>

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Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Feb 14, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Feb 14, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Feb 14, 2025

Subjects (1)

Emergency Management (Policy Area)

Cosponsors (2)

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Feb 14, 2025

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Length: 1,735 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Feb 14, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 13, 2025 6:39 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1370 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1370

To transfer unobligated funds from the United States Agency for
International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 14, 2025

Mr. Brecheen (for himself, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Donalds) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To transfer unobligated funds from the United States Agency for
International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.

This Act may be cited as the ``Unobligated Spending Adjustment to
Focus Investment on Relief and Support for Taxpayers Act'' or the ``USA
FIRST Act''.
SEC. 2.

(a) In General.--Any unobligated covered funds shall be transferred
to the Disaster Relief Fund to carry out the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)
with respect to major disasters declared under
section 401 of the Robert T.
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5170).

(b) Covered Funds Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered
funds'' means any unobligated funds previously appropriated to the
United States Agency for International Development, as of the date of
enactment of this Act.
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