House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Markup of the Disaster Resiliency Planning Act and other legislation
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hybrid business meeting to consider bills that will improve federal government operations and provide Washington D.C. with more autonomy.
The Committee will consider the following legislation:- S. 1941, the Metropolitan Areas Protection and Standardization (MAPS) Act;
- S. 3510, the Disaster Resiliency Planning Act;
- H.R. 8466, the Chai Suthammanont Healthy Federal Workplaces Act of 2022;
- H.R. 8665, the National Archives and Records Administration Modernization Act; and
- H.R. 8861, the District of Columbia Home Rule Expansion Act of 2022.
S. 3510 was introduced by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters and Senator Rick Scott on January 13, 2022. The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent on June 22, 2022. Companion legislation in the House, H.R. 7863, is led by Rep. Troy Carter. In 2021, GAO released a report on the efforts of federal agencies to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on federal property and assets. In the five years preceding the report, billions of taxpayer dollars were appropriated to help repair assets from natural disasters. To better protect these federal assets and taxpayer dollars in the face of the escalating frequency and severity of natural disasters, the report recommended that OMB direct agencies to incorporate natural disaster risk information assessments into asset management investment decisions. That recommendation remains open today. To address this recommendation, S. 3510 would direct OMB to establish guidance within 180 days of enactment for the incorporation of natural disaster resilience into the real property asset management and investment decisions of federal agencies. As recommended by GAO, agencies would be required to incorporate their natural disaster risk information assessments into such decisions. OMB would also be required to report to Congress on the guidance, and to later brief Congress on its implementation.
The Committee will also consider additional legislative business and several postal naming measures.