Plain English Breakdown
The official text uses the phrase 'including, but not limited to,' meaning infrastructure and housing are examples, not an exclusive list.
Prioritizing Disaster Recovery Funding for Communities with Population Loss
This law allows the Office of Emergency Services to prioritize funding and technical assistance for communities that lost people or businesses after a major disaster.
What This Bill Does
- Authorizes the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to prioritize funding under specified programs.
- Allows OES to prioritize technical assistance under specified programs.
- Includes infrastructure and housing recovery projects as examples of eligible areas for priority support.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Office of Emergency Services (OES).
- Communities that suffered a loss in population and businesses due to a major federal disaster, state emergency, or local emergency.
- Communities with unmet recovery needs resulting from these emergencies.
Terms To Know
- Office of Emergency Services (OES)
- The state agency responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services, supervised by the Director of Emergency Services.
- Technical assistance
- Help provided to communities under specified programs alongside funding priority.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify which exact programs will be used, only that they are 'specified' and include infrastructure and housing.
- The text does not define how the OES will measure or verify 'unmet recovery needs'.
- No specific dollar amounts for funding are mentioned in the provided summary.