Bill funds earthquake warning systems and includes Tribes in planning.
S. 320 — National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025 · Filed by Alex Padilla (D-CA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jan 29, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives money to groups that study earthquakes and warn the public. It adds Tribes as partners in earthquake planning and response. It pays for earthquake early warning systems. It makes sure alerts reach people fast through the FCC. The bill pays for this work through 2028.
Who it affects
People in areas at risk from earthquakes benefit from early warning systems. Tribes now help plan and respond to earthquakes. Groups that study earthquakes and handle disaster response get funding.
One thing to notice
Tribes are now named as equal partners with groups that study earthquakes in planning and response.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jan 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 29, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
- Apr 30, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of…”
- Jan 5, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $440,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 13 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Alex Padilla, who sponsored the bill, received $175,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Reinsurance Assn of America — $390,000 in 1 report
- American Geophysical Union — $30,000 in 2 reports
- National Institute of Building Sciences — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- early warning systems — Technology that detects earthquakes and sends alerts to people seconds before shaking arrives.
- Tribes — Native American nations and their elected leaders and authorities.
- FCC — The agency that oversees radio, TV, and phone broadcasts.
- 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 (16,887 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 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 2026-09-18.
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