FEMA must plan to cut forms for people after storms
H.R. 152 — Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act · Filed by Mike Ezell (R-MS) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells FEMA to study how to cut forms. It must reduce duplicate damage checks across groups. Within two years, FEMA must make a plan. The plan includes a public website showing how money gets awarded. FEMA must set up a working group to find overlapping damage checks. The group will test new tools like drones to speed up the work.
Who it affects
People and small companies wait a long time after storms. They fill out many forms to get help from the government. This bill aims to make that faster and easier.
One thing to notice
The bill requires FEMA to study and plan changes. It does not require groups to use those plans.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Democrats.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure”
- Jan 13, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Jan 13, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Graves moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $80,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 11 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mike Ezell, who sponsored the bill, received $478,431 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Buildstrong America, Inc. — $80,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- FEMA — The group that helps people after storms and other crises.
- damage checks — Early looks at what harm a storm caused to homes and shops.
- working group — A team of people brought together to solve a problem.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,158 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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