S. 388 · 119th Congress — Promoting Resilient Buildings Act
Promoting Resilient Buildings Act This bill increases flexibility for predisaster mitigation assistance for building code activities, prohibits using certain loan funds for building code activities, and establishes a pilot program to fund…
- Congress
- 119
- Bill
- S 388
- Status
- In Progress
- Introduced
- 2025-02-04
- Latest action date
- 2026-09-15
Record overview
Promoting Resilient Buildings Act This bill increases flexibility for predisaster mitigation assistance for building code activities, prohibits using certain loan funds for building code activities, and establishes a pilot program to fund residential resilience retrofits. Under current law, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may provide predisaster hazard mitigation assistance to government entities for implementing the latest published editions of relevant building codes and standards. Also, FEMA must consider a government entity’s adoption of such building codes when determining whether to award it predisaster hazard mitigation assistance. The bill specifies that the building codes applicable in such instances are the two most recently published editions (i.
Topics covered in the available bill text
- Section 2: Predisaster hazard mitigation
- Section 3: Hazard mitigation revolving loan fund program
- Section 4: Residential retrofit and resilience pilot program
- Section 5: Rule of construction
Selected section headings from the available bill text; this outline does not cover every provision or amendment.
Latest action
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 616.
Sponsors
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Texas · Senate · Republican
Record provenance
Stored record updated: 2026-09-16. This is separate from the action date and does not establish enactment.