Federal resilience grants target climate-vulnerable communities with local planning offices
H.R. 6785 — CLEAR Act of 2025 · Filed by Jason Crow (D-CO) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 17, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award grants of up to $100 million per year (2025–2030) to states, territories, and Indian tribes to establish or maintain local resiliency offices. These offices must develop comprehensive plans every five years identifying climate and disaster risks, then implement programs to reduce vulnerabilities in housing, infrastructure, health, and the economy. Grants prioritize disadvantaged communities and require prevailing wage standards for subcontractors.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is a straightforward federal grant program to fund local disaster and climate resilience planning offices. No deregulation, liability shield, or private subsidy is present—it is direct public investment in community preparedness.
What the text implies
- The bill defines 'disadvantaged community' by regulation rather than statute, giving HUD discretion to set eligibility criteria post-enactment—this may affect which communities receive priority funding and could create implementation variance across administrations.
- Prevailing wage requirement for subgrants may increase project costs and reduce the number of projects funded per dollar, potentially limiting geographic reach unless appropriations are increased.
- The 5-year resiliency framework update cycle may lag behind rapidly changing climate projections, creating a risk that plans become outdated before revision.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill funds proactive disaster and climate resilience planning at the local level, with explicit prioritization for disadvantaged communities and prevailing wage requirements—protecting both public safety and worker standards. No liability shields, immunity grants, or private carve-outs are present; the mechanism is straightforward public investment in community preparedness.
Who stands to gain
- State and local government agencies (as grantees)
- Consulting and engineering firms (technical assistance providers)
- Construction and infrastructure contractors (prevailing wage subgrantees)
Named in the bill
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Commerce, Department of the Interior, States, territories, Indian tribes, Department of Labor
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 3 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Dec 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services”
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 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $80,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 10 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.
Jason Crow, the sponsor, reported $227,840 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Flood Coalition Action, Inc. — $80,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 14, 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 (7,022 characters) on Aug 18, 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 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 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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