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To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to revise the policy of the Agency to address the threats of climate change, to include considerations of climate change in the strategic plan of the Agency, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to (1) revise its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan to ensure that the plan explicitly mentions climate change and addresses the implications of climate change on homeland security and near- and long-term national disaster risk; and (2) ensure that future strategic plans do likewise. The Department of Homeland Security must establish, as a subcommittee of the National Advisory Council, the Climate Change Subcommittee, which shall advise FEMA on how to best incorporate climate change, including risk assessments and strategies for adaptation and mitigation, into and throughout FEMA's policies, plans, programs, and operations. FEMA must publish as a report, submit to specified congressional committees, and make available to Congress and the public, a comprehensive assessment of climate change risks and preparedness.

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Yvette Clarke (D)*,  Nanette Barragán (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Lisa Blunt Rochester (D),  Julia Brownley (D),  Ed Case (D),  Sean Casten (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Emanuel Cleaver (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Debbie Dingell (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Bill Foster (D),  Al Green (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Debra Haaland (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Joseph Kennedy (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Dan Kildee (D),  Ann Kirkpatrick (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Joe Morelle (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Katie Porter (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Mike Quigley (D),  Harley Rouda (D),  Michael San Nicolas (D),  John Sarbanes (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Rashida Tlaib (D),  Paul Tonko (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Peter Welch (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. (on 10/23/2019)

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