Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Federal Building Threat Notification Act
The bill standardizes emergency notifications and assigns facility accountability to improve safety and transparency in Federal buildings, while imposing modest costs, administrative burdens, and a risk of uneven implementation.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill directs substantial new federal support, coordination, and regulatory changes to speed housing production, preserve and repair affordable units, and strengthen tenant/homeowner protections—especially for disaster-affected and low-income households—but it does so while easing some environmental and procedural safeguards, increasing administrative burdens and funding uncertainty, and creating trade-offs that may dilute resources or disrupt markets.
No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act
The bill increases U.S. leverage, oversight, and protections for women and minorities by conditioning engagement and requiring reporting, but it risks disrupting humanitarian assistance, reducing diplomatic flexibility, exposing operational risks, and imposing administrative and potential fiscal costs.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy protections, oversight, and targeted supports (notably for veterans and local fire response) and strengthens some procurement and foreign‑policy efforts, but does so while adding new reporting and administrative requirements and exposing taxpayers to increased, often open‑ended federal spending and compliance costs.
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.
National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves monitoring, forecasting, and targeted grant support for atmospheric-river, extreme-precipitation, landslide, flood and drought risks—helping emergency responders, water managers, tribes, and communities—but relies on limited appropriations, may shift costs or responsibilities across agencies and localities, and creates implementation, equity, privacy, and regulatory trade-offs.
HELP Response and Recovery Act
The bill trades removal of an obsolete DHS requirement and new public reporting intended to increase transparency and oversight for risks to disaster-response clarity, added reporting costs, and potential exposure of sensitive contracting details.
Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
The bill improves support, feedback, and transparency for state, local, Tribal, and territorial grant recipients—likely making homeland security grants easier to access and more accountable—while increasing administrative burden and costs that could slightly reduce funds available for direct grants and limit program flexibility.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and response capacity—particularly benefiting rural, tribal, and responder communities—while increasing administrative demands, raising data-security/privacy risks, and creating the potential for significant new federal spending that depends on future appropriations.
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act
This bill broadens and speeds access to automatic, 120-day federal tax-filing/payment extensions for states, D.C., and U.S. territories after local emergency declarations—giving disaster-affected taxpayers more time and faster relief—while creating risks of delayed refunds, short-term federal revenue pressure, and added administrative complexity and uneven application.
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill makes sinkhole risk information widely available and keeps it updated—improving planning and scientific understanding—but creates potential economic burdens for property owners and depends on congressional funding and adequate data/resources to be effective.
Designating May 2025 as "National Wildfire Preparedness Month".
This resolution increases awareness of wildfire risks, health harms from smoke, and the need for firefighter protections and better federal planning — which can improve safety and preparedness — but doing so may lead to higher federal spending, tighter regulations, and increased compliance costs for homeowners and businesses.
Securing the Cities Improvement Act
Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependence Act
Fix Our Forests Act
The bill accelerates and scales up hazardous fuels treatment, watershed restoration, and capacity building—improving wildfire safety and recovery while expanding tribal roles and R&D—but it does so by narrowing environmental and judicial reviews, creating funding and implementation risks, and raising potential ecological, equity, and accountability concerns.
POWER Act of 2025
The bill lets utilities pair emergency restoration with hazard mitigation to speed recovery and reduce future outage costs, but it raises near‑term federal spending and risks uneven prioritization and treatment across communities and utilities.
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
The bill increases transparency and clarity around federal disaster assistance—making it easier for governments, researchers, and affected households to track and access funds—but imposes new administrative burdens, potential privacy/security risks, and broader compliance requirements on agencies and recipients.
Observing the 1-year anniversary of the 2025 Southern California wildfires.
The bill sustains coordinated federal/state/local rebuilding and attention to emergency responders to help restore housing and infrastructure, but it raises fiscal costs and risks prolonged displacement and strain on local governments.
Recognizing that climate change-driven extreme weather events are increasing at the same time that the government is dismantling weather monitoring and alert systems.
The resolution raises public and policymaker awareness of increased flood/storm risks and NOAA/NWS capacity shortfalls—helpful for future preparedness and funding debates—but stops short of delivering funding or workforce relief and risks politicizing budget decisions that could delay concrete solutions.
Recognizing that climate change is not a hoax, but sound science.
The resolution's acknowledgement of human-caused climate warming could drive actions that improve public safety and local preparedness but may also lead to higher public and private costs (taxes, insurance, and energy) for Americans.
Expressing condolences of the Senate and honoring the memory of the victims on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, 2022.
The resolution offers important symbolic recognition—condolences, thanks to responders, and acknowledgment of volunteer mental‑health support—but it is purely declaratory and creates no new policies or funding, trading symbolic support for the lack of concrete remedies.
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2025, as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls".
The resolution raises national awareness and supports continued federal attention to missing and murdered Indigenous people—potentially improving data, coordination, and services—while remaining nonbinding, which limits immediate change and could create expectations for future funding or enforcement actions that raise sovereignty and cost concerns.
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
The bill strengthens wildfire planning, detection, recovery capacity, and transparency while accelerating innovation and tribal coordination, but it increases federal spending, shifts costs and administrative burdens to state/local actors, and raises jurisdictional, privacy, and long-term recovery trade-offs.
Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
The bill aims to make wildfire response faster and more accountable through national response standards, unified budgeting, and streamlined contracting, but doing so could increase federal costs, strain personnel, compress procurement oversight, and impose impractical expectations on rural areas.
NFIP Extension Act of 2025
This bill prevents an immediate disruption in flood insurance coverage and preserves FEMA's authority through Sept 30, 2025, at the cost of extending federal financial exposure and postponing longer-term NFIP reforms.
TRUE Accountability Act
The bill improves emergency financial controls, preparedness, and congressional transparency to reduce fraud and speed response, but does so without new funding and by limiting judicial review, which may strain agency resources and reduce legal accountability.
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
The bill prioritizes directing FEMA resources back to traditional disaster response and saving federal funds by eliminating FEMA support for immigration-related sheltering, but that shift transfers costs and operational strain to local communities and may reduce federal surge capacity and humane care options at the border.
First Responders Wellness Act
The bill improves and standardizes crisis and post-disaster behavioral health supports—especially for emergency responders—through a funded, culturally competent 988 pathway and FEMA-focused interventions, but it creates recurring federal costs, risks uneven nationwide access, and could impose administrative and local funding burdens without further appropriations and careful implementation.