# 117-hr-8300: Empowering Resilient Local Communities Act

117-hr-8300, Empowering Resilient Local Communities Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-8300
- Congress: 117
- Title: Empowering Resilient Local Communities Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- Introduced: 2022-07-07
- Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Emergency Management
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Empowering Resilient Local Communities Act This bill addresses issues involving extreme temperature and resilience, as well as impacts on underserved communities. Specifically, the bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue guidance related to extreme temperature events and resilience goals. It requires hazard mitigation plans to address resilience and disparate impacts on underserved communities. The Government Accountability Office must evaluate and issue to Congress and FEMA a report regarding the impacts of wildfire smoke and poor indoor air quality, the challenges posed to FEMA in addressing wildfire smoke and indoor air quality, and recommendations for FEMA to better provide assistance to communities and individuals in dealing with wildfire smoke and indoor air quality. FEMA must submit to Congress a report regarding the challenges posed by its requirements for declaring an incident or determining the cost effectiveness of mitigation activities and specifically how such requirements may disproportionately burden small impoverished communities, or specific vulnerable populations within communities.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large] (R-PR), 2022-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

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- 117-hr-7108: Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act
- 117-hr-1842: Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act
- 117-hr-8685: Afghan Adjustment Act
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## Sources
- [117-hr-8300 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8300)

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- [117-hr-1448: PAWS for Veterans Therapy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-1448)
- [117-hr-7108: Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-7108)
- [117-hr-1842: Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-1842)
- [117-hr-8685: Afghan Adjustment Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-8685)
- [117-hres-1158: Recognizing World Oceans Day and the necessity to protect, conserve, maintain,…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hres-1158)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-8300 (as of 2025-11-18).