# 119-hr-6539: STORM Act

119-hr-6539, STORM Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6539
- Congress: 119
- Title: STORM Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-12-09
- Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Emergency Management
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Creates a federal framework to certify private health care workforce platforms** that the President could use to quickly add licensed independent contractors to emergency responses. It would set rules for platform certification, coordinated state licensure waivers, limited liability protections, and required reporting. - Families and patients in disaster zones would gain faster access to more licensed clinicians through platform-enabled surge deployments. - Independent contractor health care workers could deploy through certified platforms and may receive general immunity from liability for authorized emergency activities, except for willful misconduct or gross negligence. - States would receive model waiver procedures to adopt and could coordinate temporary licensure waivers for out-of-state workers who hold a license in at least one state. The President could certify platforms and enter voluntary agreements that must run at least one year and must report annually to Congress on waiver use, deployment duration, and challenges encountered.

## Provisions PRIA read

- More emergency health workers via platforms: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would create a federal pathway to use private health-care workforce platforms during declared emergencies. The President would be able to certify platforms and enter voluntary agreements that last at least one year. The bill would define who counts as a platform and an independ…
- Legal protection for emergency responders: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would limit lawsuits against health-care contractors and platforms when they act under a federal contract or at a federal agency's direction during covered emergencies. It would treat those private entities as federal employees for Federal Tort Claims Act purposes, but only for…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-8870: BUILD America 250 Act
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-5089: Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-hr-137: TCJA Permanency Act
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-6539 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6539)

## Related
- [119-hr-8870: BUILD America 250 Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8870)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-5089: Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5089)
- [119-hr-137: TCJA Permanency Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-137)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6539 (as of 2026-04-21).