Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act

The bill would direct the Office of Management and Budget, working with the Secretary of the Treasury and relevant agency heads, to establish a dedicated subpage on USASpending.gov — the website created under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 — to host disaster assistance spending data. Within 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, every covered federal agency that distributed disaster assistance during that quarter would be required to post specified information on that subpage in machine-readable format.

The required data would include the total amount of disaster assistance provided, how much was spent or formally obligated, and a detailed list of every funded project or activity — including project name, description, completion status, award identification numbers, FEMA catalog numbers, ZIP code-level location data, and any other reporting information the agency collects. The bill covers assistance tied to presidentially declared disasters and emergencies, wildfires on public or private land, and any other federally declared natural disaster. It does not cover direct assistance to individual disaster survivors; the reporting obligation applies only to grants, loans, and contracts awarded to states, localities, and other organizations.

Federal agencies providing Stafford Act disaster assistance, the Small Business Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development — all of which would face new quarterly reporting obligations. State and local governments, nonprofits, and contractors that receive federal disaster funds would have their awards tracked and published. Journalists, oversight bodies, and the general public would gain a centralized resource for monitoring disaster spending.

Disaster assistance is often distributed rapidly across multiple agencies with limited public visibility into how funds are ultimately spent. If enacted, this bill would create a single, searchable, machine-readable public record of all major disaster-related federal outlays each quarter, making it substantially easier for Congress, inspectors general, journalists, and community members to identify gaps, delays, or waste in disaster recovery programs.

The Office of Management and Budget would design and launch the subpage on the existing USASpending.gov platform, and may contract with a private entity or nonprofit if necessary. Each covered agency would coordinate with OMB and Treasury to issue internal guidance and submit quarterly data within 30 days of each quarter's end. Agencies would also be required to ensure their underlying data assets are machine-readable. The bill does not specify penalties for late or incomplete reporting, nor does it designate a formal audit or enforcement mechanism beyond the data-publication requirement itself.