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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10893 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10893

To prohibit the use of personally identifiable information collected by 
    the Federal Emergency Management Agency for enforcement of the 
               immigration laws, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2026

   Ms. Pettersen (for herself and Ms. Kamlager-Dove) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

 
To prohibit the use of personally identifiable information collected by 
    the Federal Emergency Management Agency for enforcement of the 
               immigration laws, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Assistance Privacy 
Protection Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security may not use any 
personally identifiable information collected by the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to provide assistance pursuant to the declaration of 
a major disaster or emergency under section 401 or 501 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170; 
5191) for the purpose of enforcing the immigration laws (as such term 
is defined under section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)).
    (b) Personally Identifiable Information.--The term ``personally 
identifiable information'' means any information that--
            (1) can be used to distinguish or trace the identity of an 
        individual, such as a name, residential address, a social 
        security number, an alien registration number, a date and place 
        of birth, or a parent's maiden name; or
            (2) any item, collection, or grouping of information about 
        an individual that is maintained by an agency, including their 
        education, financial transactions, medical history, criminal 
        history, or employment history that contains a name, or the 
        identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular 
        assigned to the individual, such as a fingerprint, voice print, 
        or photograph.
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Emergency Assistance Privacy Protection Act of 2026

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