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Committee advances FEMA Act of 2025 to the House, adopting broad reforms to FEMA
Summary
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure favorably reported H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act (FEMA Act of 2025), after adopting several manager and member amendments; final committee tally recorded 57 yays and 3 nays.
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on recorded vote advanced H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025, approving the bill as amended by a roll-call of 57 yeas and 3 nays and ordering it favorably reported to the House.
Chairman Graves offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute that the committee adopted as the base text. Members described the bill as a bipartisan package shaped by input from more than 150 members and stakeholders. Committee proponents said the bill would restore the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cabinet-level status, streamline public assistance into faster project-based grants, create a universal application for federal disaster assistance, overhaul FEMA’s mitigation framework to accelerate projects and…
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