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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 4782 (Introduced in House) — To provide additional disaster recovery assistance for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin I... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Equitable Rebuild Act of 2018 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Purposes. Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I—Infrastructure Subtitle A—Energy Sec. 101. Assistance for rebuilding of electric grid. Sec. 102. Clean energy grants. Subtitle B—Energy infrastructure incentives Sec. 111. Grant program to promote access to renewable energy and energy efficiency for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Sec. 112. Incentives for energy efficient commercial buildings. Sec. 113. Incentives for new energy efficient homes. Sec. 114. Incentives for alternative motor vehicles and qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles. Subtitle C—Transportation, Housing, and Agriculture Incentives Sec. 121. General provisions. Sec. 122. Highway program. Sec. 123. Federal-aid highway emergency relief program. Sec. 124. Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program. Sec. 125. TIGER discretionary grants.
Sec. 126. Passenger and freight rail improvements. Sec. 127. Airport improvement program. Sec. 128. Airport Facilities and Equipment. Sec. 129. Clean and safe water revolving funds. Sec. 130. Construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities. Sec. 131. Corps of Engineers funds. Sec. 132. Predisaster hazard mitigation and resiliency. Sec. 133. Broadband programs. Sec. 134. Housing and community development. Sec. 135. Oversight. TITLE II—Medicaid and Medicare Parity Subtitle A—Medicaid Sec. 201.
Elimination of general Medicaid funding limitations ( cap ) for territories. Sec. 202. Elimination of specific Federal medical assistance percentage
(FMAP)limitation for territories; temporarily increasing the FMAP for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to 100 percent. Sec. 203. Application of Medicaid waiver authority to all of the territories. Sec. 204. Permitting Medicaid DSH allotments for territories. Subtitle B—Medicare Part I—Part A Sec. 211. Calculation of Medicare DSH payments for IPPS hospitals in Puerto Rico. Sec. 212. Rebasing target amount for hospitals in territories. Sec. 213. Medicare DSH target adjustment for hospitals in territories. Part II—Part B Sec. 221. Application of part B deemed enrollment process to residents of Puerto Rico; special enrollment period and limit on late enrollment penalties. Part III—Medicare Advantage (Part C) Sec. 231. Adjustment in benchmark for low-base payment counties in Puerto Rico. Part IV—Part D Sec. 241. Improved use of allocated prescription drug funds by territories. Sec. 242. Report on treatment of territories under Medicare part D. Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Sec. 251. Modified treatment of territories with respect to application of ACA annual health insurance provider fees. Sec. 252. Medicaid and CHIP territory transparency and information. Sec. 253. Report on exclusion of territories from Exchanges. Sec. 254. Access to coverage for individuals in certain areas without any available Exchange plans. Sec. 255. Extension of family-to-family health information centers program to territories. Sec. 256. Temporary increase in Social Services Block Grant allotments for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. TITLE III—Agriculture Sec. 301. Rural Utilities Service programs. Sec. 302. Rural Energy for America Program. Sec. 303. Rural community facilities program. Sec. 304. Rural housing. Sec. 305. Watershed and flood prevention operations. Sec. 306. Community facilities grants. Sec. 307. Waiver of noninsured crop disaster assistance program service fee. Sec. 308. Assistance for Community Food Projects. Sec. 309. Participation of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands in supplemental nutrition assistance program. Sec. 310. Payment limitations for certain producers in disaster areas. Sec. 311. Treatment of certain producers as socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. Sec. 312. Emergency watershed protection program. Sec. 313. Emergency forest restoration program. Sec. 314. Treatment of certain producers as limited resource producers. Sec. 315. Retroactive availability of catastrophic level of protection under noninsured crop assistance program. Sec. 316. Distribution of funds made available for equipment assistance grants under the National School Lunch Act to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Sec. 317. Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. Sec. 318. Deadline for application submission. TITLE IV—Veterans Affairs Sec. 401. Appropriation of amounts for Department of Veterans Affairs to address consequences of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. TITLE V—Education recovery Subtitle A—Educational assistance funds Sec. 501. Education and Head Start funding. Subtitle B—Elementary and secondary education disaster relief Sec. 511. Definitions. Sec. 512. Immediate aid to restart school operations. Sec. 513. Allocations to local educational agencies for the long-term improvement of public school facilities. Sec. 514. Hold harmless for local educational agencies serving major disaster areas. Sec. 515. Paraprofessional reciprocity; delay. Sec. 516. Regulatory and financial relief. Sec. 517. Assistance for homeless children and youths. Sec. 518. Temporary emergency impact aid for displaced students. Sec. 519. Severability. Sec. 520. Authorization of funds. Sec. 521. Sunset provision. Subtitle C—Higher education disaster relief Sec. 531. Definitions. Sec. 532. General waivers and modifications. Sec. 533. Modification of part A of title II grants authorized. Sec. 534. Authorized uses of Trio, Gear-Up, part A or B of title III, title V, and other grants. Sec. 535. Professional judgment. Sec. 536. Expanding information dissemination regarding eligibility for Federal Pell Grants. Sec. 537. Procedures. Sec. 538. Temporary deferral for affected Federal student loan borrowers. Sec. 539. Termination of authority. Sec. 540. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico college access. Subtitle D—Disaster relief for other education and related programs Sec. 551. Definitions. Sec. 552. Agreements to extend certain deadlines of the individuals with disabilities education act to facilitate the provision of educational services to children with disabilities. Sec. 553. Head Start and child care and development block grants. TITLE VI—Economic Development Assistance and Worker Protections Sec. 601. Training and employment services. Sec. 602. Equitable treatment for possessions of the United States with respect to the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. Sec. 603. Requirement to use local labor. Sec. 604. Minimum wage for young employees in Puerto Rico. Sec. 605. Overtime hours protections for workers in Puerto Rico. Sec. 606. Unemployment assistance for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Sec. 607. Extension of the supplemental security income program to territories. Sec. 608. Economic Development Assistance Programs. Sec. 609. Appropriation to CDFI Fund for disaster relief in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Sec. 610. Community Development Fund. Sec. 611. Small Business Administration disaster loans. Sec. 612. Temporary increase in new markets tax credit for investments in community development entities serving covered disaster areas. Sec. 613. Full rum cover over. Sec. 614. Temporary modification to tax home and closer connection test. Sec. 615. Income allocable to fixed place of business. Sec. 616. Federal permitting. TITLE VII—Environmental remediation Sec. 701. National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund. Sec. 702. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Programs and Management. Sec. 703. Hazardous Substance Superfund. Sec. 704. Leaking Underground Storage Tank Fund. Sec. 705. Department of the Interior grants. Sec. 706. Department of Defense environmental restoration. Sec. 707. Additional Recovery Assistance for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Fund. Sec. 708. United States Fish and Wildlife Service construction. Sec. 709. Activities carried out by the Chief of Engineers in Puerto Rico. Sec. 710. Land and water conservation fund parity. TITLE VIII—Long-term resilient emergency disaster relief plan Sec. 801. Long-term disaster relief plan for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. TITLE IX—FEMA provisions Sec. 901. Waiver of non-Federal share requirements. Sec. 902. Hazard mitigation. Sec. 903. Repair, restoration, and replacement of damaged facilities. Sec. 904. Community disaster loans. Sec. 905. Waiver of limit on management costs. Sec. 906. Maximum amount of assistance for individuals and households program. Sec. 907. Restoration of telecommunications infrastructure. Sec. 908. Availability of translators. TITLE X—Emergency funding Subtitle A—General provisions Sec. 1001. Extension of claim filing deadline. Sec. 1002. Emergency designation. Subtitle B—Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Hurricane Damage Restoration Account Sec. 1011. Definitions. Sec. 1012. Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands Hurricane Damage Restoration Account. Sec. 1013. Establishment and operation of the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands emergency credit facility.
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