James Gallagher (R-CA)

CLUSTER Act

H.R. 10022 · House bill Emergency Management

A Republican bill with 1 Democratic cosponsor · See the cosponsor

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill, known as the "Community-Level Upgrades for Safer, Threat-Resistant Homes Act" or the "CLUSTER Act," seeks to change the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. It proposes to add "community hardening or cluster hardening" as an eligible use of assistance. This specifically includes coordinated mitigation efforts across private residential structures. The amendment would be applied to section 404 of the existing Act.

Yes

  • Scored +3

    Does this improve help for people hit by a disaster?

    The bill expands eligible uses of assistance to include community-level hardening of residential structures.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.