H.R. 153 · 119th Congress · Emergency management
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jan 14, 2025
Roll call ↗426
0
Passed the House.
Passed the House on January 14, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 14, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- all Democrats
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureHouse Committee on Financial ServicesHouse Committee on Small Business
- Lobbying
- At least 2
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill creates a public transparency page for federal disaster money.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, January 14, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill creates a public transparency page for federal disaster money. The OMB Director must establish a subpage within the existing federal spending transparency website to publish disaster assistance data. No later than 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, every covered federal agency that provided disaster assistance that quarter must post the total amount provided, the amount expended or obligated to projects, and a detailed list of each project or activity funded. Each project entry must include its name, description, completion status, award identification number, FEMA disaster assistance catalog number, and location down to ZIP Code. Agencies must keep the data machine readable. Covered agencies are any providing aid under the Stafford Act, the Small Business Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Disaster assistance covers SBA disaster loans, HUD community development and flood insurance aid tied to major disasters, and Stafford Act aid. The OMB Director may contract with a private or nonprofit entity to build the subpage.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 2 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 14 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 1 organization lobbying for itself in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Buildstrong America, Inc. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.