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HR 403 119th Congress House Emergency Management

Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act

Introduced: September 10, 2025 See on congress.gov
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Became law
Jan 15, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Jan 14, 2025
Introduced in House
Jan 14, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
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Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act

This bill modifies the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Specifically, the bill

  • increases the amount that may be set aside from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund for BRIC from 6% to 15% of certain disaster grant amounts;
  • authorizes FEMA to set aside 2% from the BRIC 15% set-aside for assistance with community planning and capacity building;
  • provides a 90% federal cost share for BRIC grants to environmental justice communities, and increases the maximum number of people in small impoverished communities, which are also eligible for the 90% BRIC federal cost share; and
  • authorizes FEMA to develop guidance regarding how to incorporate climate change into the National Risk Index, benefit-cost analyses, and improved codes, specifications, and standards to address natural hazards.

FEMA must

  • prioritize BRIC assistance for high hazard risk communities, environmental justice communities, communities with low tax revenue base per capita, and communities with a low rate of code adoption and enforcement and infrastructure maintenance expenditures;
  • provide community outreach on project planning and grant administration; 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 January 15, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Lobbying activity 6

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 6
D
Bell, Wesley
Missouri · Oct 8, 2025
 D
Case, Ed
Hawaii · Sep 10, 2025
 D
Mullin, Kevin
California · Jun 26, 2025
 D
Huffman, Jared
California · Mar 31, 2025
 D
Kamlager-Dove, Sydney
California · Feb 4, 2025
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jan 15, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 403: Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-403/
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"H.R. 403: Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-403/.
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H.R. 403, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-403/.
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