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119-hr-10537119th CongressWALLET

Federal Emergency Mobilization Accountability (FEMA) Workforce Planning Act

Sponsored By: Representative Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2]

Introduced

Summary

FEMA workforce planning is the core focus. This bill would require FEMA to produce a detailed, data-driven human capital operating plan to guide hiring, training, and deployment over a three-year horizon.

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  • FEMA employees and managers would get specific recruitment and retention goals, performance measures, and a cost analysis to close mission-critical skills gaps and improve training.
  • Surge Capacity Force members and deployments would be tracked and planned. Plans must include strategies for rapid deployment, training, and data on past deployments and qualifications of non-FEMA surge participants.
  • The Comptroller General would have 180 days after plan submission to review whether the plan meets requirements and to offer recommendations. The bill also specifies that no new funds are authorized to carry out these planning requirements.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

New FEMA workforce planning rules

This bill would require the FEMA Administrator to send a human capital operating plan to Congress within 1 year of enactment. The plan would be updated at least once every 3 years and cover the next 3-year period. It would follow OPM and Comptroller General best practices and include performance measures, staffing targets by cadre/region/office, projected attrition and causes, and hiring timeline data from need validation to offer acceptance and start date. The plan would include a projected cost analysis, strategies to increase cost-efficiency, recruitment, retention, training, and Surge Capacity Force deployment plans, and steps to prevent discrimination based on political affiliation. FEMA would send the plan to congressional oversight committees and the Comptroller General would report on compliance within 180 days of submission. The bill would not authorize any new appropriations to carry out these requirements, so FEMA would need to use its existing budget or seek separate funding from Congress.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2]

LA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Ezell, Mike [R-MS-4]

    MS • R

    Sponsored 9/24/2026

  • Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]

    MS • D

    Sponsored 9/24/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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