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H.R. 10281

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To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue guidance and regulations relating to preventing gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · September 3, 2026
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced
September 3, 2026
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The FEMA for Safe Recovery Act directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create new regulations and guidance within one year to protect people from gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation during and after disasters. The bill requires FEMA to establish coordination centers with local partners, train staff to identify and assist victims, revise check-in procedures to reach all household members, create reporting systems for abuses by housing providers, and develop multilingual materials about victim resources for disaster shelters. The legislation also expands FEMA's crisis counseling program to address gender-based violence and human trafficking, and clarifies that case management services can help survivors access support for these issues. The bill allows states and local governments flexibility to maintain their own emergency systems and implement stronger protections if they choose, and the regulations apply only to disaster response and short-term recovery operations funded under existing FEMA programs. Implementation depends on available appropriations and does not require FEMA to hire new permanent staff or create new offices.

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