Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act amends the Homeland Security Act sections governing the Urban Area Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program. For both programs, the FEMA Administrator must provide ongoing stakeholder outreach, engagement, education, technical assistance, and support before, during, and after grant awards. The required support includes annual surveys collecting feedback from state, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders about grant awards and FEMA outreach effectiveness; summaries of survey results and other feedback; explanations of how the feedback was incorporated into later grant notices of funding opportunities; and any other feedback mechanisms the Administrator considers appropriate.
The bill adds outside review. Within two years, the Comptroller General must report to FEMA and the House and Senate homeland-security committees on the effectiveness of FEMA's outreach, engagement, education, technical assistance, and support for UASI and SHSGP grants. Within three years, FEMA must report back to the same committees on actions taken under the new outreach provisions, including surveys and summaries.
Who Benefits and How
State governments, local governments, tribal governments, territorial governments, Urban Area Security Initiative applicants, State Homeland Security Grant Program applicants, emergency-management agencies, first responder agencies, police departments, fire departments, emergency medical service agencies, and homeland-security grant writers benefit because FEMA must provide continuing support around grant applications, awards, survey feedback, and future funding notices rather than leaving applicants to infer program expectations from notices alone.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FEMA preparedness-grant staff, the FEMA Administrator, GAO homeland-security reviewers, House Homeland Security Committee staff, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff, state administrative agencies, local emergency-management staff, tribal grant offices, territorial grant offices, and stakeholders responding to annual surveys must comply with recurring outreach, technical-assistance, survey, feedback-summary, funding-notice, GAO-review, and FEMA-reporting obligations.
Key Provisions
- Amends the Urban Area Security Initiative to require ongoing FEMA outreach, engagement, education, technical assistance, and support.
- Amends the State Homeland Security Grant Program to require the same outreach and technical-assistance support.
- Requires annual stakeholder surveys on grant awards and FEMA outreach effectiveness.
- Requires FEMA to summarize survey results and explain how stakeholder feedback is incorporated into later funding notices.
- Requires GAO to report within two years on FEMA outreach effectiveness for both preparedness grant programs.
- Requires FEMA to report within three years on actions taken under the new outreach requirements.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires FEMA to provide continuous outreach, engagement, education, technical assistance, annual stakeholder surveys, feedback summaries, and later GAO and FEMA reports for the Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Grant Administration
Primary Purpose
Requires FEMA to provide continuous outreach, engagement, education, technical assistance, annual stakeholder surveys, feedback summaries, and later GAO and FEMA reports for the Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- State governments
- Local governments
- Tribal governments
- Territorial governments
- Urban Area Security Initiative applicants
- State Homeland Security Grant Program applicants
- Emergency-management agencies
- First responder agencies
- Police departments
- Fire departments
- Emergency medical service agencies
- Homeland-security grant writers
Identified Costs
- FEMA preparedness-grant staff
- FEMA Administrator
- GAO homeland-security reviewers
- House Homeland Security Committee staff
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff
- State administrative agencies
- Local emergency-management staff
- Tribal grant offices
- Territorial grant offices
- Stakeholders responding to annual surveys
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4807-4808)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4789-4790)
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Local governments, State governments, Territorial governments
FEMA preparedness-grant staff, Government Accountability Office, House Homeland Security Committee staff
Positive-direction: House Homeland Security Committee staff, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff
Negative-direction: FEMA preparedness-grant staff, Government Accountability Office
First responder agencies, State Homeland Security Grant Program applicants, Urban Area Security Initiative applicants
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "gao"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
- "administrator"
- → Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
Learn more about our methodology