H.R. 5085

Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act

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One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America

At the First Session

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Sunday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-one

H. R. 5085

AN ACT

To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act.

2.

Increase in aggregate payments

(a)

In general

Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking fiscal year 2020, the total amount of such assistance provided during such fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000 and inserting fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the total amount of such assistance provided during each such fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000.

(b)

Emergency designation

(1)

In general

The amounts provided by the amendment made by this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).

(2)

Designation in Senate

In the Senate, this section and the amendment made by this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.