Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
HR 153 requires federal agencies providing disaster assistance (like FEMA, SBA, and HUD) to publish detailed, quarterly spending data online. Covered agencies must report the total funds disbursed, amounts spent on specific projects, and full project details - including location, status, and funding IDs - on a new government transparency subpage. This makes disaster spending data publicly accessible and machine-readable, improving accountability for how federal funds are used after events like hurricanes or wildfires. The law applies to all major disaster declarations under the Stafford Act and other specified natural disasters.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Jan 2025
House Passage
Jan 2025
Senate Passage
President
Introduced Jan 3, 2025
Last action Jan 15, 2025
Floor votes · House Jan 14, 2025
How they voted
426–0
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 434
Jan 14, 2025
D
Democratic215
97% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican218
99% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 15, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
upper
Jan 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 426 - 0 (Roll no. 10). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H101-102)
lower
Jan 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Financial Services, 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.
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Ezell
RRepublican
Co
Pablo José Hernández
DDemocratic
Co
Stacey E. Plaskett
DDemocratic
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