Disaster Relief Act of 1974

Long title	An Act entitled the "Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1974"
Acronyms (colloquial)	DRAA
Nicknames	Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1974
Enacted by	the 93rd United States Congress
Effective	April 1, 1974
Citations
Public law	93-288
Statutes at Large	88 Stat. 143
Codification
Titles amended	42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections amended	42 U.S.C. ch. 68 § 5121 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 3062 by Quentin N. Burdick (D–ND) on February 26, 1974 Committee consideration by Senate Public Works Passed the Senate on April 10, 1974 (91-0) Passed the House on April 11, 1974 (Passed) Reported by the joint conference committee on May 9, 1974; agreed to by the Senate on May 9, 1974 (Agreed) and by the House on May 15, 1974 (392-0) Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on May 22, 1974

The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-288) was passed into law by the then President Richard Nixon as a United States federal law that established the process of presidential disaster declarations.^[1] The bill was introduced by Senator Quentin Burdick on February 26, 1974.^[2] The bill passed 91-0 as amended on April 10, 1974 and the House agreed to conference report by a vote of 392–0 on May 15, 1974.^[2] It was to better handle the array of disasters that occur annually throughout the 50 states. At one point, more than one hundred federal agencies were involved in handling disasters and emergencies. The Act also helped give more fixed relief to disaster survivors.

Amendments

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter consolidated many of them into the new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by Executive Order 12127.

In November 1988, the United States Congress amended the Act and renamed it the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Public Law 100-707).^[3][4]

This act was further amended by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000.^[5]