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S. 388

Promoting Resilient Buildings Act

Introduced Feb 4, 2025Latest action Aug 6, 2026Emergency Management

Plain-English summary

Promoting Resilient Buildings Act This bill increases flexibility for predisaster mitigation assistance for building code activities, prohibits using certain loan funds for building code activities, and establishes a pilot program to fund residential resilience retrofits. Under current law, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may provide predisaster hazard mitigation assistance to government entities for implementing the latest published editions of relevant building codes and standards. Also, FEMA must consider a government entity’s adoption of such building codes when determining whether to award it predisaster hazard mitigation assistance. The bill specifies that the building codes applicable in such instances are the two most recently published editions (i.

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Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

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Official Subjects

Emergency ManagementState and local government operationsBuilding constructionDisaster relief and insuranceGovernment lending and loan guaranteesIntergovernmental relationsNatural disastersResidential rehabilitation and home repair

Action Timeline

Aug 6, 2026

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Feb 4, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Feb 4, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Sources & text

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