Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act

Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act

This bill increases the maximum amount of funding available in FY2021 and FY2022 for temporary assistance for U.S. citizens and their dependents who are returning from foreign countries due to a crisis and are without available resources. Under current law, the Department of Health and Human Services may provide assistance such as money payments and medical care to these individuals on a temporary basis. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending that is exempt from pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules and other budget enforcement procedures.

[117th Congress Public Law 39]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



[[Page 135 STAT. 336]]

Public Law 117-39
117th Congress

                                 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. <<NOTE: Aug. 31, 2021 -  [H.R. 5085]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Emergency 
Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act. 42 USC 1305 
note.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

    Approved August 31, 2021.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5085:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 167 (2021):
            Aug. 24, considered and passed House.
            Aug. 31, considered and passed Senate.

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