# H.R. 152 (119th): Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act

Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to streamline disaster information collection, convene a working group on preliminary damage assessments, and provide a report to Congress. FEMA must (1) conduct a study and develop a plan under which the collection of information from disaster assistance applicants and grantees will be made less burdensome, duplicative, and time consuming for applicants and grantees; and (2) develop a plan for the regular collection and reporting of information on federal disaster assistance awarded. Additionally, not later than two years after enactment of the bill, FEMA must convene a working group on a regular basis to (1) identify potential areas of duplication or fragmentation in preliminary damage assessments after disaster declarations; (2) determine the applicability of having one federal agency make the assessments for all agencies; and (3) identify potential emerging technologies, such as unmanned aircraft systems (i.e., drones), to expedite the administration of preliminary damage assessments. FEMA must submit a comprehensive report on the plans for streamlining and consolidating information collection and the findings and recommendations of the working group to Congress with a briefing. The report must be made available to the public and posted on FEMA's website.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: disaster_relief. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: disaster_response. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federal_cooperation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: fema_reporting. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: government_efficiency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 9: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure is a prudential governance bill about streamlining administrative processes. It pursues ordinary goods such as reduced burden on disaster victims, less duplication, and public reporting, without directly advancing or restraining a named moral harm. Its drone and single-agency assessment items are matters of administrative judgment rather than clear moral concern, so mixed fits better than unclear given the stated basic dispute.
Theological note: The bill concerns the administration of disaster aid, an area where Scripture's call to mercy and to faithful stewardship of resources is relevant. Reducing needless paperwork for those in distress and avoiding wasteful duplication bear on stewardship and neighbor-love. The bill raises no direct moral question about the ends it serves, and its own text is administrative, so it is relevant to issue stewardship rather than to a moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 9: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 405 · Nay 5 · Other 24.

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