FEMA Critical Staffing Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 14
- Latest action
- Aug 20, 2025
What it does
The FEMA Critical Staffing Act would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to use appropriated funds to reinstate any employees who were involuntarily separated from service between January 20, 2025, and the date of the bill’s enactment, provided they elect to be reinstated, within 30 days of enactment. It also mandates that the FEMA Administrator continue carrying out appropriated programs supporting state and local extreme weather preparedness and response, prohibits changes to congressionally mandated programs that would reduce access to extreme weather resources, and requires the immediate reinstatement and continuation of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities…
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