{"id":5020,"date":"2026-07-16T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/namic-urges-congress-to-pass-fema-reform-bill-amid-mounting-disaster-backlog\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:05:26","slug":"namic-urges-congress-to-pass-fema-reform-bill-amid-mounting-disaster-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/namic-urges-congress-to-pass-fema-reform-bill-amid-mounting-disaster-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMIC urges Congress to pass FEMA reform bill amid mounting disaster backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>Bill has bipartisan support but awaits a floor vote<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the FEMA Act in September 2025 by a 57-3 vote, and the bill has since drawn 87 bipartisan co-sponsors, according to the Congressional Research Service. It has not yet received a floor vote, and companion legislation has not been introduced in the Senate. The legislation would restructure FEMA as an independent, Cabinet-level agency outside the Department of Homeland Security, diverging from the FEMA Review Council&#8217;s own recommendations, which favored keeping the agency within DHS in a reformed capacity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill has bipartisan support but awaits a floor vote The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the FEMA Act in September 2025 by a 57-3 vote, and the bill has since drawn 87 bipartisan co-sponsors, according to the Congressional Research Service. It has not yet received a floor vote, and companion legislation has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4062,1990,2737,1656,2978,4061,4059,4060,256,949],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-backlog","tag-bill","tag-congress","tag-disaster","tag-fema","tag-mounting","tag-namic","tag-pass","tag-reform","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}