HR 152
Passed a chamber
Requires FEMA to study and plan ways to make disaster aid paperwork and damage assessments less burdensome, faster, and less duplicative, and to report the findings to Congress.
Official title: Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-JAN-2025
Referred
03-JAN-2025
Passed
13-JAN-2025
Senate
Received
14-JAN-2025
- Requires FEMA, with the Small Business Administration, HUD, and other agencies, to develop within two years a plan for streamlining information collection from disaster assistance applicants and grantees.
- Requires a working group to identify duplication in preliminary damage assessments, consider whether one federal agency should conduct them for all agencies, and identify emerging technologies such as unmanned aircraft.
- Requires one comprehensive report to House and Senate committees, posted publicly on FEMA's website, and a congressional briefing within 180 days after the report is submitted.
- Updates the FAA Reauthorization Act's table of contents to match the revised section title.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (03-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 13-JAN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
- Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Emergency Management
■ 2 D
2 Democrats