All that may be about to change. Federal legislation working its way through the U.S. Senate would reform FEMA rules to better allow for wildfire preparedness and recovery.

Proposed FEMA reform would speed up disaster funding, provide technical assistance to small towns, and protect pre-disaster mitigation funds nationwide ...

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders have introduced legislation in the U.S. House that could provide the most robust legislative reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ...

Current law stands in the way of reforming FEMA, but neither the Administration nor Congress has seriously pushed to reform FEMA.

Senator Welch says his bill is focused on empowering local communities specifically on when aid is available, who makes ...

Overhauling the Stafford Act: Passed in 1974 and amended multiple times since, the Stafford Act defines the authorities and functions of federal disaster response. This powerful piece of legislation ...

"By releasing this discussion draft legislation, we hope to engage our colleagues and stakeholders on comprehensive FEMA reform," Graves said in a Thursday statement. "This draft bill includes ...

Welch on Tuesday introduced a sweeping legislative proposal designed to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) called the Disaster Assistance Improvement and Decentralization (AID) Act.

Since May 2018, FEMA has funded an additional $86.2 million in wildfire mitigation for 228 projects, providing increased protection to nearly 2,500 properties.

The same can happen for cities too. After major flooding in 2019, the small river city of Grafton, Illinois, didn’t see any money from FEMA until 2022. The legislation also seeks to eliminate FEMA’s ...

FEMA concurred with the recommendations and they are the basis for the “Federal Advance Contracts Enhancement Act," which amended the “2006 Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act.” ...

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 gave Congress a legislative veto over presidential invocations of emergency power. But INS v. Chadha killed that route by invalidating the legislative veto.