Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 153

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 15, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

                                 AN ACT

 
To provide for an online repository for certain reporting requirements 
 for recipients of Federal disaster assistance, 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 ``Post-Disaster Assistance Online 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. SUBPAGE FOR TRANSPARENCY OF DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Establishment of Repository for Reporting Requirements.--The 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 
the Secretary of the Treasury and the head of each covered Federal 
agency, shall establish a subpage within the website established under 
section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) to publish the information required to be 
made available to the public under this section.
    (b) Submission of Information by Federal Agencies.--Not later than 
30 days after the end of a calendar quarter, each covered Federal 
agency that made disaster assistance available to an eligible recipient 
during such quarter shall, in coordination with the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, make available to the public on the 
subpage established under subsection (a) the information described in 
subsection (c), and ensure that any data asset of the agency is machine 
readable.
    (c) Information Required.--The information described in this 
subsection is, with respect to disaster assistance provided by the 
covered Federal agency--
            (1) the total amount of disaster assistance provided by the 
        agency during such quarter;
            (2) the amount of disaster assistance provided by the 
        agency that was expended or obligated to projects or 
        activities; and
            (3) a detailed list of all projects or activities for which 
        disaster assistance dispersed by the agency was expended, 
        obligated, or used, including--
                    (A) the name of the project or activity;
                    (B) a description of the project or activity;
                    (C) an evaluation of the completion status of the 
                project or activity;
                    (D) any award identification number assigned to the 
                project;
                    (E) the Catalog for Disaster Assistance number 
                assigned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
                    (F) the location of the project, including ZIP 
                Codes; and
                    (G) any reporting requirement information being 
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