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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on December 7, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
First Responder Identification of Emergency Needs in Disaster Situations or the FRIENDS Act
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to submit a report that describes select state and local programs and policies related to the preparedness and protection of first responders, which may include information on:
the degree to which such programs and policies include consideration of the presence of a first responder's family in an area impacted by a terrorist attack,
The GAO may provide information: (1) in a format that delineates high risk urban areas from rural communities; and (2) on the degree to which the selected state and local programs and policies were developed or are being executed with funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including grants from the State Homeland Security Grant Program or the Urban Area Security Initiative.
DHS shall consider the report's findings and assess its applicability for federal first responders.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2795 as passed House amended on Dec 10, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 10, 2015
First Responder Identification of Emergency Needs in Disaster Situations or “FRIENDS” Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
396 Yea 12 Nay 25 not voting
Crossed both parties 12 of 408 voting members broke with their own party: 12 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2795 and vote against it. 14 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2795 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
8 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.