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HR 4669: FEMA Act of 2025

HR 4669 119th Congress Activity: September 3, 2025 Published Intelligence Brief General Stream
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Bill Intelligence Analysis

Official congressional activity: HR 4669

FEMA Act of 2025

Summary

Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025 or the FEMA Act of 2025This bill reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (currently within the Department of Homeland Security) as an independent, cabinet-level agency. It also makes broad changes to FEMA’s disaster and hazard mitigation assistance programs.The bill generally transfers FEMA’s current functions and authorities to the independent FEMA, except for certain security-related programs. The bill makes various changes to the Public Assistance program, including byestablishing new grants for expedited funding to repair or replace disaster-damaged facilities,establishing block grants that recipients may choose instead of Public Assistance for smaller disasters,expediting and expanding uses of funding for emergency response and debris removal, andallowing use of excess administrative funds for increasing recipients’ disaster management capacity. The bill makes various changes to the Individual Assistance program, including byexpanding eligibility for housing assistance,expanding mitigation and direct (non-financial) assistance for residences,reducing certain restrictions on funds duplicating program benefits, and establishing a unified disaster application system.The bill makes various changes to FEMA’s mitigation programs, including byestablishing mitigation plans with preapproved projects,authorizing an entire Hazard Mitigation Grant Program grant to be provided before costs are incurred,changing pre-disaster mitigation assistance to noncompetitive formula grants, and allowing recipients to combine mitigation project funds from multiple federal programs.Additionally, federal entities must publish various information relating to disaster assistance and conduct various studies on related topics (e.g., preliminary…

Intelligence context

  • Congress: 119
  • Activity date: 2025-09-03
  • Related member activity: Sam Graves — Sponsor
  • Matched terms: disaster assistance, treaty, stabilization, terrorism, intelligence, accountability, National Defense Authorization Act, defense authorization, appropriations
  • Matched groups: General Congress, Foreign Policy, Security / Counterterrorism, Humanitarian / Refugees, Human Rights / Religious Freedom / Press Freedom, Defense / NDAA / Appropriations
  • Match confidence: High · Score 100

Why this was flagged

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Official summary / excerpt

Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025 or the FEMA Act of 2025This bill reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (currently within the Department of Homeland Security) as an independent, cabinet-level agency. It also makes broad changes to FEMA’s disaster and hazard mitigation assistance programs.The bill generally transfers FEMA’s current functions and authorities to the independent FEMA, except for certain security-related programs. The bill makes various changes to the Public Assistance program, including byestablishing new grants for expedited funding to repair or replace disaster-damaged facilities,establishing block grants that recipients may choose instead of Public Assistance for…

General Congress search: official congressional record contains foreign policy, foreign relations, international affairs, diplomacy, diplomatic, State Department, Department of State, treaty, alliance, global affairs, democracy promotion, stabilization, sanctions, OFAC, blocked property, export control, export controls, secondary sanctions, terrorism financing, anti-money laundering, money laundering, AML, financial restrictions, Specially Designated Nationals, SDN, Middle East, Syria, Syrian, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian, Gaza, West Bank, Gulf, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Egypt, national security, security assistance, counterterrorism, terrorism, terrorist, ISIS, ISIL, al-Qaeda, Al Qaeda, intelligence, defense cooperation, armed conflict, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, humanitarian assistance, foreign aid, refugee, refugees, displaced persons, internally displaced, IDP, food assistance, development assistance, civilian protection, disaster assistance, immigration, asylum, temporary protected status, TPS, humanitarian parole, parole, refugee admissions, visa, visas, naturalization, citizenship, family reunification, removal proceedings, human rights, religious freedom, press freedom, freedom of expression, political prisoners, detainees, arbitrary detention, war crimes, accountability, corruption, civil society, minority rights, atrocity prevention, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, defense authorization, defense appropriations, appropriations, foreign assistance, State and Foreign Operations, SFOPS, foreign operations, Foreign Military Financing, FMF in crs_summary, summary_feed_text, bill_text. General Congress record is in Morse policy scope: Foreign Policy, Security / Counterterrorism, Humanitarian / Refugees, Human Rights / Religious Freedom / Press Freedom, Defense / NDAA / Appropriations.