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The bill strengthens DHS-wide climate risk assessment, infrastructure protection, and emergency preparedness—with greater transparency—at the cost of new administrative expense and potential diversion of DHS resources and added compliance burdens.
Local governments and rural communities will see improved disaster and emergency preparedness from DHS-wide planning, reducing service disruptions after extreme weather.
Construction workers, local governments, and the public will benefit from recommendations to realign organizations and resources that help secure funding and protect critical infrastructure and continuity of services.
Federal employees and military personnel will gain coordinated DHS-wide climate risk assessments and strategies that reduce climate impacts on operations and assets, improving readiness and national security resilience.
Federal employees and local governments could see DHS resources shifted away from other priorities as the department implements mandates tied to Executive Order 14008.
DHS components will face additional compliance and planning burdens to examine cross-functional climate impacts, increasing internal workload and administrative overhead.
Taxpayers may bear higher costs to create and staff a 20+ member council and support new administrative functions within DHS.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to establish a Climate Coordinating Council to assess and manage climate impacts on DHS missions, and report annually to Congress for ten years.
Introduced April 24, 2025 by Daniel Goldman · Last progress April 24, 2025
Creates a Climate Coordinating Council inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) led by a designated senior official and made up of at least 20 senior DHS officials. The council must identify, address, and mitigate how global climate change affects DHS programs, operations, missions, assets, and personnel, develop risk-based strategies and frameworks, recommend organizational and resource changes, and oversee implementation of related executive order actions. The Secretary must report to two congressional committees within one year of enactment and then annually for ten years.