Federal disaster funds shift from grants to guaranteed state allocations
H.R. 4560 — Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities for All Act of 2025 · Filed by Shomari Figures (D-AL) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 21, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends the federal disaster-relief law to overhaul how predisaster hazard-mitigation funding is distributed. Instead of competitive grants to individual local governments, it creates a formula-based system that guarantees each state a share of funds (split equally, by population, and by natural-hazard vulnerability), requires states to pass at least 50% to local projects, and ensures Indian tribes receive at least $75 million annually. It also decouples predisaster mitigation funding from post-disaster recovery eligibility, so communities can pursue both programs independently.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is a structural reallocation of federal disaster-mitigation dollars from discretionary competitive grants to formula-based state and tribal entitlements. This is a governance and funding-distribution reform, not a new program or a carve-out.
What the text implies
- The formula's three equal parts (equal distribution, population-weighted, hazard-vulnerability-weighted) may create winners and losers among states; high-hazard, low-population states could gain significantly, while low-hazard, high-population states may see relative reductions.
- The $75 million tribal minimum is a floor, not a ceiling; if the formula allocates more, tribes receive more, but the bill does not cap tribal shares, potentially concentrating funds in a small number of large tribal governments.
- Decoupling predisaster and post-disaster funding removes a historical constraint; communities can now pursue mitigation without fear of losing disaster-recovery eligibility, but the bill does not increase total appropriations—it only redistributes existing funds.
- The 50% suballocation requirement to local governments carrying out recommended projects may create pressure on states to approve projects quickly to meet the threshold, potentially reducing scrutiny of project quality or cost-effectiveness.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill expands and democratizes access to predisaster mitigation funding by replacing discretionary federal selection with a formula that guarantees every state a baseline share plus bonuses for population and hazard vulnerability. Communities no longer compete for scarce grants; they receive predictable, formula-driven allocations, and the decoupling of predisaster and post-disaster programs removes a perverse incentive that may have discouraged mitigation.
Who stands to gain
- state and local governments (predisaster mitigation funding recipients)
- Indian tribal governments (guaranteed minimum $75 million annually)
- construction and engineering firms (likely contractors for mitigation projects)
Named in the bill
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Section 203 (predisaster hazard mitigation), Section 404 (post-disaster hazard mitigation), Indian tribal governments, State governments, Local governments, President (FEMA administrator, in practice)
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- Jul 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $200,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 26 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Shomari Figures, the sponsor, reported $884,964 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Southern Environmental Law Center — $200,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,862 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Dec 2025 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 2026-10-20.
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