{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-5689","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 5689","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and certain private nonprofit organizations, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and certain private nonprofit organizations, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2021-10-22","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-04-05","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h113","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Resilient AMERICA Act","result":"Passed","yea":383,"nay":41,"present":0,"not_voting":5,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll113.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2022-04-06"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-04-05","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Resilient Assistance for Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure and Construction by Americans Act or the Resilient AMERICA Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill addresses disaster resilience issues and expands coverage for hazard mitigation."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill"},{"k":"li","t":"increases from 6% to 15% the estimated aggregate amount of grants that may be set aside for national public infrastructure pre-disaster hazard mitigation assistance;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"makes private nonprofit facilities eligible for technical and financial assistance for implementing cost-effective pre-disaster hazard mitigation measures;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"provides funding for water resources development projects; and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"expands the use of hazard mitigation assistance to cover certain activities pertaining to wildfires, tsunamis, and ice storms.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must set aside 10% of funds made available for any given year to further the implementation and enforcement of the latest published editions of relevant consensus-based building codes."},{"k":"p","t":"FEMA must require as a condition of providing nonemergency financial assistance for construction projects costing at least $1 million that the steel and iron used in the projects be produced in the United States, with certain exceptions."},{"k":"p","t":"FEMA must carry out a residential resilience pilot program to provide grants for residential resilience retrofits (e.g., elevation of homes, floodproofing measures, wildfire retrofit and mitigation measures, and wind retrofits)."},{"k":"p","t":"The Government Accountability Office must study the challenges to states and territories in obtaining funds under public assistance alternative procedures."}],"words":221},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Robert T. 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Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-04-05","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5689/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5689","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5689/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-5689.png","v":"066a04eb570d","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 5689, 117th Congress: Resilient AMERICA Act. House: 383 Yea, 41 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 5 Apr 2022."}}