Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill speeds recovery and reopening of facilities and enables faster restoration work through emergency and sole-source contracting, at the cost of reduced competition and increased risks of higher taxpayer costs, reduced opportunities for small businesses, and greater need for vigilant oversight.
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
The bill expands funding authority, speeds and centralizes Corps project delivery, and targets water and ecosystem investments—benefiting many communities—while raising the risk of higher federal and local costs, shifted obligations to non‑Federal sponsors, strained Corps resources, and potential environmental or legal tradeoffs if oversight and appropriations do not keep pace.
Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act
The bill expands tax relief and tax-free payments for many disaster and wildfire victims — including non-itemizers and retroactive wildfire sufferers — but does so at the cost of reduced federal revenue, date-limited eligibility that can exclude some victims, and tax rules that may limit other deductions or raise future capital gains for property owners.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and broadens emergency restoration assistance—especially via larger advance payments and expanded eligibility for federally- or human-caused fires—while increasing program costs, oversight burdens, and the potential for inconsistent administration or misuse.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and standardizes larger up-front disaster-related advance payments so producers and private forest owners can recover faster, while increasing federal fiscal exposure, administrative overhead, and risks of repayment or valuation disputes for recipients.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal earthquake resilience by expanding scope, clarifying roles, improving early warning, and providing multi‑year support, but many new expectations hinge on future appropriations and will raise costs and administrative burdens for governments and property owners.
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
The bill simplifies and speeds access to federal disaster aid through a single, more transparent application and faster interagency coordination, but it concentrates sensitive personal data and accelerates implementation in ways that raise meaningful privacy, security, and rollout risks for applicants and partner governments.
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill provides federally standardized, regularly updated sinkhole-risk mapping that improves planning, preparedness, and scientific understanding—but shifts potential financial and regulatory costs onto homeowners, under-resourced localities, and federal taxpayers.
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
The bill lets state and local governments purchase DOD aircraft and parts through 2035 to strengthen wildfire suppression capacity, but it narrows other uses, may create long-term reliance that discourages civilian fleet investment, and could impose indirect costs on taxpayers.
Observing the 1-year anniversary of the 2025 Southern California wildfires.
The resolution directs federal recognition and coordination to help hundreds of thousands of displaced residents and strengthen emergency response capacity, but it increases federal spending and risks slow or uneven recovery and extra administrative burdens on local implementers.
Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization Act
The bill directs predictable U.S. security, disaster-response, and governance assistance to a defined set of Caribbean countries with stronger oversight and transparency, trading increased regional stability and clearer accountability for higher taxpayer costs, greater administrative burdens, potential human-rights and geopolitical risks, and reduced flexibility to assist non-listed partners.
Farmers Lifeline Options for Overcoming Disasters (FLOOD) Act
The bill makes it easier and faster for rural areas and local partners to get federal emergency watershed protection help by formalizing partnerships and authorities, at the cost of added administrative requirements for local partners and some increased federal spending.
Wildfire Insurance Affordability Act
The bill directs federal funds, vouchers, and favorable tax treatment to reduce wildfire risk—particularly for low-income and Tribal communities—while relying on state administration, limited per-household caps, and short-term authorization that may produce uneven access, affordability gaps, and incomplete protection absent further follow-up.
Improving Housing Performance Act
Wildfire Prevention and Recovery Act
The bill improves safety, infrastructure resilience, and coordinated preparedness for Arizona dams by requiring wildfire-risk assessments, but it shifts new assessment and potential mitigation costs onto taxpayers, local governments, and utilities and concentrates resources on Arizona rather than nationwide.
Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act
The bill delivers targeted, time-limited tax relief and clearer tax rules for specific fire victims and agricultural producers to speed recovery and reduce uncertainty, while imposing revenue costs, leaving similarly affected people outside the narrow scope, and adding compliance complexity and potential fairness concerns.
Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act
The bill provides targeted, timely emergency payments to specialty-crop producers by using prior-year sales and higher caps for full-time farmers, but it depends on available funding and existing administrative rules—risking under- or uneven compensation and concentrating aid among larger operations while creating potential paperwork barriers for some producers.
Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act
A likely drafting error inserts an undefined term that creates legal ambiguity: it risks confusing small businesses about program eligibility, raising litigation and legal costs, and forcing federal administrators to divert resources to interpretation or correction.
Flood Mapping Modernization and Homeowner Empowerment Pilot Program Act of 2026
The bill improves flood-risk transparency and funds targeted mitigation for a small set of urban jurisdictions—helping preparedness and equity in prioritized places—but reaches relatively few communities, may leave localities to shoulder significant costs, and could expose homeowners to property-value and insurance risks.
Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act of 2026
The bill expands and simplifies disaster housing assistance to reach people without formal title, renters, and nontraditional households and speeds some administrative processes, but it increases federal costs and raises fraud, administrative, and implementation risks that could delay or complicate some aid.
Disaster Recovery Improvement Act
The bill aims to speed and better coordinate disaster recovery by elevating local input and producing actionable, transparent recommendations, but its nonbinding nature, short timeline, and lack of new funding mean promised improvements may be limited, politicized, or require further appropriations to realize.
Stop Post-Disaster Vultures Act
The bill protects renters and local housing stock after disasters by pausing large investor purchases for six months, trading off reduced market liquidity and potential price/transaction impacts for institutional owners, added compliance costs, and the risk of misclassifying some smaller owners as 'institutional.'
Fairness in Federal Disaster Declarations Act of 2026
The bill makes disaster-aid decisions more transparent and prioritizes vulnerable, hard-hit communities (including retroactive reconsideration), but does so by imposing fixed weighting rules that limit FEMA discretion, risk administrative delays, and can disadvantage certain prior recipients or higher-cost areas.
Promoting Resilient Buildings Act
The bill targets limited federal grants and clearer technical standards to improve household resilience and reduce future disaster costs, but those benefits are constrained by funding limits, a temporary pilot, potential compliance costs for communities, and added administrative or legal uncertainty.
Tsunami Warning, Research, and Education Act of 2026
The bill strengthens tsunami detection, data transparency, tribal inclusion, and community preparedness with dedicated funding and new operational requirements, but it increases federal spending and administrative burdens and could impose unfunded expectations on smaller jurisdictions and private infrastructure operators.
North Rim and Kaibab National Forest Restoration Act of 2026
The bill speeds recovery and boosts Tribal and local involvement—helping communities, tourism, and ecosystem recovery—at the cost of greater federal spending and emergency contracting flexibilities that raise risks of higher taxpayer costs, reduced competition, and oversight challenges.
Direct Property Acquisitions Act
The bill enables faster, geographically distributed FEMA-funded buyouts to reduce future disaster losses for at-risk communities while increasing federal spending, leaving limited program slots that may exclude many, and shifting administrative burdens to states and FEMA.
Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act
The bill directs substantial, sustained federal resources and clearer planning/technical tools to reduce wildfire risk—improving responder coordination and homeowner protections—at the tradeoff of higher federal spending, new match and administrative burdens, and a risk that limited funds shift from landscape‑scale mitigation to private‑property and infrastructure priorities that may leave some communities and ecosystems underserved.
Disaster Assistance Fairness Act
The bill clarifies and expands federal disaster assistance for condominiums, cooperatives, and other common‑interest communities—speeding cleanup, funding of shared repairs, and protection for vulnerable residents—at the cost of added administrative complexity, potential taxpayer exposure, and possible gaps or disputes for some groups (including pre‑enactment survivors).
Global Climate Resilience Act of 2025
The bill mobilizes debt relief, swaps, and parametric insurance to speed climate adaptation and disaster recovery in vulnerable countries — improving resilience and faster payouts — but raises potential costs and contingent liabilities for U.S. taxpayers and risks diverting scarce international resources or creating gaps and politicization in aid delivery.
