The Government Accountability Office would review disaster recovery grants for Puerto Rico. It would look for missing or weak data that may have affected aid decisions. The bill requires a report, not new funding or program changes.
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Data Improvement for Puerto Rico Recovery Act is a House bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Latest action on H.R. 5501: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Who this affects: This bill mainly affects Puerto Rico residents and communities that depend on federal disaster recovery aid. It also affects federal agencies that give or manage that aid, because they would need to provide records and explain how they used data. Congress would use the report to better understand where recovery grant data worked well and where it fell short.
Why this matters: Disaster aid can miss needs when the government lacks good data about Puerto Rico. This bill would look for those gaps and show how they may have affected past grant decisions. Better data could help agencies target aid, manage money, and check results more fairly. But the bill only orders a study and recommendations. It does not itself add funding or require agencies to fix the problems found.
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