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H.R. 4177 115th Congress House

PREPARE Act of 2017

Official title: To enhance the Federal Government's planning and preparation for extreme weather and the Federal Government's dissemination of best practices to respond to ext… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To enhance the Federal Government's planning and preparation for extreme weather and the Federal Government's dissemination of best practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the Federal Government from such extreme weather, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 31, 2017 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 14 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 28, 2018
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 866.
Dec 28, 2018
Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
Nov 14, 2018
House Committee on Oversight and Government Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 28, 2018.
Nov 14, 2018
Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 115-1028, Part I.
Apr 12, 2018
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Apr 12, 2018
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 12, 2018
Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
Apr 12, 2018
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Discharged.
Nov 2, 2017
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Nov 2, 2017
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Nov 1, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Nov 1, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Oct 31, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Oct 31, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Latest action December 28, 2018

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 866.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Preparedness and Risk Management for Extreme Weather Patterns Assuring Resilience and Effectiveness Act of 2017 or the PREPARE Act of 2017

This bill directs the President to establish the Interagency Council on Extreme Weather Resilience, Preparedness, and Risk Identification and Management (council), which shall: (1) establish government-wide goals for extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and management (EWR); (2) develop, recommend, coordinate, and track implementation of priority interagency federal government actions related to EWR; (3) provide recommendations to the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Department of Homeland Security on how agencies should develop or update agency extreme weather plans, remove barriers to state and local EWR in agency regulations, guidance, and policy, and avoid duplication among federal activities; (4) issue guidance to agencies on developing agency extreme weather plans and agency regulations, guidance, and policies to remove barriers to state and local EWR; and (5) publish biannually an inventory of all regional agency offices, centers, and programs that assist with EWR at the state or local level.

OMB shall ensure that each agency provides adequate resources to the council.

Each agency shall submit biannually to OMB and to the council a comprehensive plan that integrates consideration of extreme weather into its operations and overall mission objectives. OMB shall consolidate and submit such plans to Congress.

Annual agency performance plans shall include the most recent agency extreme weather plan.

 Related & companion bills 1
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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 16
All 16 Democratic 8 Republican 2
Sanford, Mark
· Apr 17, 2018
 D
Plaskett, Stacey E.
Virgin Islands · Mar 20, 2018
 R
Webster, Daniel
Florida · Feb 27, 2018
 R
Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Feb 13, 2018
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Nov 8, 2017
Faso, John
· Nov 3, 2017
 D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Nov 3, 2017
 D
Raskin, Jamie
Maryland · Nov 3, 2017
Curbelo, Carlos
· Oct 31, 2017
Dent, Charles
· Oct 31, 2017
Farenthold, Blake
· Oct 31, 2017
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Oct 31, 2017
Lance, Leonard
· Oct 31, 2017
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Oct 31, 2017
 D
Peters, Scott H.
California · Oct 31, 2017
 D
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Florida · Oct 31, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4177: PREPARE Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4177/
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"H.R. 4177: PREPARE Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4177/.
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