Skip to main content
S 3691 112th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications Atmospheric science and weather Congressional oversight Disaster relief and insurance Economic performance and conditions Emergency planning and evacuation Executive Office of the President Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Public-private cooperation

STRONG Act

Introduced: December 19, 2012 See on congress.gov
Sign in to write a letter Sign in to watch
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 19, 2012
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Dec 19, 2012
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8204)
Dec 19, 2012
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Strengthening The Resiliency of Our Nation on the Ground Act or the STRONG Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish and chair an interagency working group with cabinet-level representation from all relevant federal agencies in order to: (1) provide a strategic vision of extreme weather resilience; (2) conduct a gap and overlap analysis of federal agencies' current and planned activities related to achieving short- and long-term resilience to extreme weather and its impacts on the United States, such as flooding and drought; and (3) develop a National Extreme Weather Resilience Plan.

Requires the Plan to include the establishment of an online, publicly available information clearinghouse to be used by federal agencies and other stakeholders to inform resilience-enhancing efforts and to build off and complement existing federal efforts. Provides for a coordinating entity to establish and maintain such clearinghouse.

Requires such coordinating entity to coordinate the implementation of the Plan and to track its progress.

Requires the submission of specified reports.

What's happening now December 19, 2012

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1