HR 6138
117th Congress
House
Emergency Management
Air quality
Building construction
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Community life and organization
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Natural disasters
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act
Introduced: December 2, 2021
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Became law
Dec 2, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Dec 2, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Dec 2, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act
This bill modifies the pre-disaster mitigation grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Specifically, the bill
- increases FEMA's set-aside for pre-disaster mitigation assistance from 6% to 15% of certain grant amounts;
- provides for a 2% set-aside for community planning and capacity building assistance; and
- authorizes FEMA to develop guidance regarding how to incorporate climate change into the National Risk Index, cost-benefit analyses, and improved codes, specifications, and standards to address natural hazards.
FEMA must
- prioritize applicants for assistance with the highest hazard risk in coordination with FEMA's National Risk Index, environmental justice communities, and low-income communities (current law covers the latter though this bill modifies the number of individuals in such communities);
- provide community outreach; and
- establish a central federal database to consolidate funding data collected by all local, state, and federal agencies involved in post-disaster response and pre-disaster mitigation spending and categorize the data by type of project, funding source, and hazard types using a user-friendly database and interactive map.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Committees of jurisdiction
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