Resilient AMERICA Act
Official title: To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible State, local, Trib… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and certain private nonprofit organizations, and for other purposes.
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| Date | Chamber | What was voted on | Result | Yes–No | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2022 | House · vote #113 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed | 383–41 | See who voted → |
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act or the Resilient AMERICA Act
This bill addresses disaster resilience issues and expands coverage for hazard mitigation.
The bill
- increases from 6% to 15% the estimated aggregate amount of grants that may be set aside for national public infrastructure pre-disaster hazard mitigation assistance;
- makes private nonprofit facilities eligible for technical and financial assistance for implementing cost-effective pre-disaster hazard mitigation measures;
- provides funding for water resources development projects; and
- expands the use of hazard mitigation assistance to cover certain activities pertaining to wildfires, tsunamis, and ice storms.
Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must set aside 10% of funds made available for any given year to further the implementation and enforcement of the latest published editions of relevant consensus-based building codes.
FEMA must require as a condition of providing nonemergency financial assistance for construction projects costing at least $1 million that the steel and iron used in the projects be produced in the United States, with certain exceptions.
FEMA must carry out a residential resilience pilot program to provide grants for residential resilience retrofits (e.g., elevation of homes, floodproofing measures, wildfire retrofit and mitigation measures, and wind retrofits).
The Government Accountability Office must study the challenges to states and territories in obtaining funds under public assistance alternative procedures.
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- Referred in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers)
- Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS)
- Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
- Bureau of Reclamation
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5689: Resilient AMERICA Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5689/
"H.R. 5689: Resilient AMERICA Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5689/.
H.R. 5689, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5689/.
[H.R. 5689: Resilient AMERICA Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5689/)