1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Disaster Recovery for Local Communities Act of 2019 . 2. Community development block grant disaster recovery program (a) In general Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 ( 42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 104(b) ( 42 U.S.C. 5304(b) ), by inserting or 123 after 106 each place that term appears; and (2) by adding at the end the following: 123. CDBG-Disaster recovery assistance (a) Definition of eligible entity In this section, the term eligible entity means— (1) a State; (2) an insular area; (3) a unit of general local government; and (4) an Indian tribe. (b) Authority