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This bill addresses disaster resilience issues and expands coverage for hazard mitigation.
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Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must set aside 10% of funds made available for any given year to further the implementation and enforcement of the latest published editions of relevant consensus-based building codes.
FEMA must require as a condition of providing nonemergency financial assistance for construction projects costing at least $1 million that the steel and iron used in the projects be produced in the United States, with certain exceptions.
FEMA must carry out a residential resilience pilot program to provide grants for residential resilience retrofits (e.g., elevation of homes, floodproofing measures, wildfire retrofit and mitigation measures, and wind retrofits).
The Government Accountability Office must study the challenges to states and territories in obtaining funds under public assistance alternative procedures.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5689 as passed House on Apr 5, 2022. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Apr 5, 2022
Resilient AMERICA Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
383 Yea 41 Nay 5 not voting
Crossed both parties 41 of 424 voting members broke with their own party: 41 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
429 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. 5689 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5689 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
150 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-04. 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.