{"bill":{"id":"119-hr-403","congress":119,"type":"HR","number":403,"title":"Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act","originChamber":"House","introducedDate":"2025-01-14","sponsors":[{"bioguideId":"S001193","fullName":"Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-14]","party":"D","state":"CA","district":14}],"cosponsorsCount":6,"latestAction":{"actionDate":"2025-01-15","text":"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management."},"policyArea":"Emergency Management","subjects":[],"actions":[{"date":"2025-01-15","text":"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.","type":"Committee","chamber":"House committee actions","hasVote":false},{"date":"2025-01-14","text":"Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"House floor actions","hasVote":false},{"date":"2025-01-14","text":"Introduced in House","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Library of Congress","hasVote":false},{"date":"2025-01-14","text":"Introduced in House","type":"IntroReferral","chamber":"Library of Congress","hasVote":false}],"summary":"<p><strong>Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act</strong></p><p>This bill modifies the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</p><p>Specifically, the bill</p><ul><li>increases the amount that may be set aside from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund for BRIC from 6% to 15% of certain disaster grant amounts;</li><li>authorizes FEMA to set aside 2% from the BRIC 15% set-aside for assistance with community planning and capacity building;</li><li>provides a 90% federal cost share for BRIC grants to environmental justice communities, and increases the maximum number of people in small impoverished communities, which are also eligible for the 90% BRIC federal cost share; and</li><li>authorizes FEMA to develop guidance regarding how to incorporate climate change into the National Risk Index, benefit-cost analyses, and improved codes, specifications, and standards to address natural hazards.</li></ul><p>FEMA must</p><ul><li>prioritize BRIC assistance for high hazard risk communities, environmental justice communities, communities with low tax revenue base per capita, and communities with a low rate of code adoption and enforcement and infrastructure maintenance expenditures;</li><li>provide community outreach on project planning and grant administration; and</li><li>establish a central federal database to consolidate funding data collected by all local, state, and federal agencies involved in post-disaster response and pre-disaster mitigation spending and categorize the data by type of project, funding source, and hazard types using a user-friendly database and interactive map.</li></ul>","updateDate":"2025-10-09T08:05:31Z"},"markets":[],"stateBills":[],"meta":{"sources":["congress.gov"],"latencyMs":451,"ts":"2026-04-15T02:29:54.802Z"},"nextActions":{"inspect":[],"related":[{"description":"Search related legislation","method":"GET","url":"/api/public/query-gov?q=Preventing%20Our%20Next%20Natural%20Disaster%20Act"}]}}