HR 164referred119th Congress

POWER Act of 2025

Introduced Jan 3, 2025House billPolicy area: Emergency ManagementLast action Jan 16, 2025Sponsor: Val T. Hoyle(D-OR)

emergencyEmergency Management

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeEconomic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management SubcommitteeTransportation and Infrastructure Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Jan 16, 2025

What the bill does

Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025 This bill authorizes electric utilities receiving certain emergency assistance for the restoration of power to also carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities in combination with the power restoration activities. Additionally, the bill specifies that electric utilities receiving such assistance for a facility may, if otherwise eligible, also receive hazard mitigation assistance for the same facility under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance program.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$5.4M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 3, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Jan 15, 2025vote

Gus M. Bilirakis voted yea

Jan 15, 2025vote

Vern Buchanan voted yea

Jan 15, 2025vote

Suzanne Bonamici voted yea

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES

May 6, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)

Official Congressional Actions

Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

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Jan 15, 2025Floor

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)

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Jan 15, 2025Floor

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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Jan 15, 2025Floor

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)

Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA	AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION	$1.7M	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	TORMMMAUT
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)	NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)	$1.2M	Jul 17, 2025	2025Q2	HCRRET

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Gus M. Bilirakis	R	yea	Jan 15, 2025
Vern Buchanan	R	yea	Jan 15, 2025
Suzanne Bonamici	D	yea	Jan 15, 2025
Tom Barrett	R	yea	Jan 15, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.