119-hr2568

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2568 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2568

 To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 1, 2025

 Mr. Mullin (for himself and Mr. Fong) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 
and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
 and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
 within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, and for other 
 purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Earthquake Resilience Act''.

SEC. 2. EARTHQUAKE RESILIENCY.

    (a) National Risk Assessment.--Not later than two years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, in collaboration with the 
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Director 
of the National Science Foundation, and the Director of the United 
States Geological Survey, and in coordination with appropriate 
representatives of Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial 
governments and other stakeholders, shall submit to the Committee on 
Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a 
national risk assessment to identify the following:

    (1) The progress made by communities to strengthen 
 earthquake resilience.

    (2) Any gaps in such resilience that remain as of the date 
 of the risk assessment.

    (b) National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.--

Section 5 of 
the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7704) is 
amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (a) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (2)
        (B) --
            (i) in clause
            (ii) , by inserting ``and 
 post-earthquake recovery-based performance 
 objectives that address functional recovery and 
 reoccupancy'' after ``earthquake hazards 
 reduction'';
            (ii) by redesignating clauses
            (iii) and
            (iv) as clauses
            (iv) and
            (v) , respectively;
            (iii) by inserting after clause
            (ii) the 
 following new clause:
 ``
            (iii) development of standards, 
 guidelines, and consensus codes for improved 
 post-earthquake recovery of services provided 
 by lifeline infrastructure coordinated, as 
 appropriate, by a national lifeline 
 infrastructure organization;''; and
            (iv) in clause
            (v) , as so redesignated, by 
 striking ``and'' after the semicolon; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (4)
        (A)
            (iii) , by inserting ``, 
 including pursuant to paragraph

    (2) ,'' after ``results 
 of the Program''; and

    (2) in subsection

    (b)

    (3) --
        (A) in subparagraph
        (G) --
            (i) by inserting ``, real-time global 
 navigation satellite system

    (GNSS) network data 
 streams, and geodetic network data'' after 
 ``regional seismic networks''; and
            (ii) by striking ``and'' after the 
 semicolon; and
        (B) in subparagraph
        (H) , by striking the period and 
 inserting ``; and''.
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