HR 164
Passed a chamber
Allows electric utilities to combine hazard mitigation work with power restoration funded under the Stafford Act, and keeps a facility eligible for mitigation aid even after it gets emergency restoration help.
Official title: POWER Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-JAN-2025
Referred
03-JAN-2025
Passed
15-JAN-2025
Senate
Received
16-JAN-2025
- Amends Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to let electric utilities carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation jointly with power restoration activities funded under that section
- Provides that a utility facility receiving emergency power restoration assistance remains eligible for hazard mitigation assistance under Section 406
- Applies only to amounts appropriated on or after the date of enactment
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (03-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 15-JAN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
- Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Emergency Management
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1 Republican