H.R. 4669 · 119th Congress

FEMA Act of 2025

Introduced on Jul 23, 2025 by Sam Graves (R-MO-6). 97 cosponsors, 44 of them from another party. Latest action (Sep 3, 2025): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 57 - 3.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Jul 23, 2025
Cosponsors
97
44 from the other party
Policy area
Emergency Management
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To authorize and improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency and reform Federal disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Census and government statistics
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Homelessness and emergency shelter
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Natural disasters
  • Residential rehabilitation and home repair
  • State and local finance
  • State and local government operations

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, Jul 23, 2025). Public domain.

Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025 or the FEMA Act of 2025

This bill reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (currently within the Department of Homeland Security) as an independent, cabinet-level agency. It also makes broad changes to FEMA’s disaster and hazard mitigation assistance programs.

The bill generally transfers FEMA’s current functions and authorities to the independent FEMA, except for certain security-related programs.

The bill makes various changes to the Public Assistance program, including by

  • establishing new grants for expedited funding to repair or replace disaster-damaged facilities,
  • establishing block grants that recipients may choose instead of Public Assistance for smaller disasters,
  • expediting and expanding uses of funding for emergency response and debris removal, and
  • allowing use of excess administrative funds for increasing recipients’ disaster management capacity.

The bill makes various changes to the Individual Assistance program, including by

  • expanding eligibility for housing assistance,
  • expanding mitigation and direct (non-financial) assistance for residences,
  • reducing certain restrictions on funds duplicating program benefits, and
  • establishing a unified disaster application system.

The bill makes various changes to FEMA’s mitigation programs, including by

  • establishing mitigation plans with preapproved projects,
  • authorizing an entire Hazard Mitigation Grant Program grant to be provided before costs are incurred,
  • changing pre-disaster mitigation assistance to noncompetitive formula grants, and
  • allowing recipients to combine mitigation project funds from multiple federal programs.

Additionally, federal entities must publish various information relating to disaster assistance and conduct various studies on related topics (e.g., preliminary damage assessments, fast-moving disasters, and government emergency alerting systems).

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Sam GravesR-MO-6Sponsor

Democrats · 44

Republicans · 53

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Jul 23, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Jul 23, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Jul 23, 2025 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  4. Jul 23, 2025 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  5. Jul 24, 2025 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.
  6. Sep 2, 2025 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
  7. Sep 3, 2025 · HouseSubcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Discharged
  8. Sep 3, 2025 · HouseCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  9. Sep 3, 2025 · HouseOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 57 - 3.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS INSTITUTE12 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)
  2. Paradise Irrigation District10 reports
    $115K reported (all issues)
  3. CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION6 reports
    $16.5M reported (all issues)
  4. AECOM4 reports
    $1.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AECOM SERVICES, LLC$3.8M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  5. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY4 reports
    $3.2M reported (all issues)
  6. AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $6.4M reported (all issues)
  7. AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  8. American Society of Civil Engineers4 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS$360.6K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  9. Appalachian Voices4 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)
  10. BuildStrong America, Inc.4 reports
    $320K reported (all issues)
  11. Bullbag Corporation4 reports
    $10K reported (all issues)
  12. CCAN Action Fund (fka CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK)4 reports
    $30K reported (all issues)
  13. CITY OF TAMPA4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CITY OF TAMPA$196.6K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 91%
  14. COUNTY OF VENTURA4 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)
  15. Central Utah Water Conservancy District4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  16. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.4 reports
    $68.3M reported (all issues)
  17. Citrus County4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  18. City of Phoenix, AZ4 reports
    $190K reported (all issues)
  19. City of Santa Rosa4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  20. Clark County Water Reclamation District4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  21. Clark County, NV (Office of the County Manager)4 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)
  22. County of Riverside4 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)
  23. County of Santa Barbara4 reports
    $96K reported (all issues)
  24. Douglas County Nevada4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  25. Foothill Municipal Water District4 reports
    $39K reported (all issues)
  26. INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS OF AMERICA, INC.4 reports
    $780K reported (all issues)
  27. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS4 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS, INC.$187.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  28. INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL (ICC)4 reports
    $355K reported (all issues)
  29. Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  30. Large Public Power Council4 reports
  31. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES4 reports
    $2M reported (all issues)
  32. NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)4 reports
    $3.4M reported (all issues)
  33. REINSURANCE ASSN OF AMERICA4 reports
    $1.7M reported (all issues)
  34. SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER4 reports
    $580K reported (all issues)
  35. SSCAFCA - Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Authority4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  36. Truckee River Flood Project4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  37. Washington County4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  38. Weber Basin Water Conservancy District4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  39. Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility3 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  40. City of Lake Forest3 reports
    $90K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.