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S. 861119th CongressEmergency Management
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
Sponsored by Sen. Gary C. Peters (D-MI) · 5 active : 5 Republicans
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedDec 16, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govDisaster Assistance Simplification Act
This bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop and establish a unified intake process and system for applicants for assistance provided by a disaster assistance agency.
The system must
facilitate a consolidated application for any form of disaster assistance provided by a disaster assistance agency when appropriate to support the nature and purposes of the assistance;
carry out the purposes of disaster assistance programs swiftly, efficiently, equitably, and in accordance with specified laws and privacy and data protections; and
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support the detection, prevention, and investigation of waste, fraud, abuse, or discrimination in the administration of disaster assistance programs.
Further, the system must, among other things
accept applications for disaster assistance programs;
permit applicants to receive status updates on such applications;
allow applicants to update disaster assistance information throughout their recovery journeys;
permit the distribution of information on additional recovery resources to disaster survivors that may be available in a disaster-stricken jurisdiction in coordination with appropriate federal, state, local, and tribal partners; and
permit disaster assistance agencies to communicate directly with disaster survivors.
Not later than 30 days after receiving a request from a disaster assistance agency to update questions in the consolidated application needed to administer the disaster assistance programs of the agency, FEMA must make those updates.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Crime prevention
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Intergovernmental relations
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- Internet, web applications, social media
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 58Middle 30–70
- 34Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
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- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
