A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse public employee retirement systems for accidental disability retirements and accidental deaths resulting from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Retirement systems for 9/11 first responders would get federal money for disability and death costs.

This bill would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to pay back public employee retirement systems for certain costs. These costs are linked to accidental disabilities and deaths from the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. This support would go to retirement systems that covered 9/11 first responders. It would set aside nearly $6 billion for this purpose in the government's budget year 2027.

What Would Change

Today, public employee retirement systems must cover all costs themselves for accidental disabilities and deaths related to 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations. If this bill becomes law, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be required to pay back these eligible retirement systems for those specific costs, with nearly $6 billion authorized for this purpose in the government's budget year 2027.

Key Provisions

Requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to pay back eligible public employee retirement systems for costs from 9/11 World Trade Center accidental disabilities and deaths.
Sets aside $5,913,400,000 for FEMA to make these payments for the government's budget year 2027.
Ensures reimbursed money can only be used by the public employee retirement systems, not other groups.
Defines an "eligible" retirement system as one with a member who helped with 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup.

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S 5385 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 5/10

A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse public employee retirement systems for accidental disability retirements and accidental deaths resulting from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

What Would Change

Key Provisions

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