A Republican bill with 3 Democratic cosponsors · See all 6 cosponsors
Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
The POWER Act of 2025 aims to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. It specifically seeks to authorize Federal agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities. Under this bill, electric utilities may perform cost-effective hazard mitigation activities alongside power restoration efforts. It also ensures that receiving help for emergency power restoration does not disqualify a facility from receiving hazard mitigation assistance. These changes apply to funds appropriated on or after the date of the Act's enactment.
Yes
- Scored +3
Does this improve help for people hit by a disaster?
The bill enhances disaster resilience by allowing electric utilities to combine hazard mitigation with power restoration efforts.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Combined Mitigation and Restoration: An electric utility can carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities at the same time as they work to restore power. This allows for simultaneous action under Section 403(e)(1).
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Protection of Assistance Eligibility: Receiving help for the emergency restoration of power will not disqualify a facility from receiving hazard mitigation assistance for which it is otherwise eligible. This ensures that getting immediate help does not prevent future mitigation help under Section 403(e)(2).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- Timing of Funding: The changes made by this amendment only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date of the Act's enactment, according to Section 2(b).
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Does this improve help for people hit by a disaster? — The bill enhances disaster resilience by allowing electric utilities to combine hazard mitigation with power restoration efforts.
- 5/5/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 4/10/2025
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- 5 Cosponsors added.
- Introduced in Senate
2 bills Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
Richard BlumenthalDemocrat · Connecticut
Maggie HassanDemocrat · New Hampshire
Andy KimDemocrat · New Jersey
Markwayne MullinRepublican · Oklahoma
Mike RoundsRepublican · South Dakota
Roger WickerRepublican · Mississippi