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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5154 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
to carry out a program to provide technical and financial assistance 
to State, local, and Tribal authorities to conduct testing of emergency 
alert and warning systems, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 
Mr. MULLIN (for himself, Ms. PELOSI, and Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to carry out a program to provide 
technical and financial assistance to State, local, and 
Tribal authorities to conduct testing of emergency alert 
and warning systems, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Resilient Emergency 
Alert Communications and Training Act’’ or the ‘‘REACT 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR EMERGENCY ALERTING SYSTEMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall carry out a pro-
gram to provide technical and financial assistance to 
State, local, and Tribal authorities to conduct periodic 
field training, end-to-end testing, and community-based 
exercises of emergency alert and warning systems, which 
shall be in addition to support provided under any existing 
program. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The technical and financial as-
sistance provided under subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) funding and training for community-based 
exercises, including organized live testing at the local 
level; 
(2) assistance with establishing a clear delinea-
tion of roles, responsibilities, and standard operating 
procedures within the emergency alert and warning 
chain of authorization, including across local, Tribal, 
State, and Federal authorities; 
(3) developing and publishing templates for 
emergency alert and warning messages, in accord-
ance with evidence-based scientific research, that— 
(A) may include message completeness re-
quirements; and 
(B) build upon existing training materials; 
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(4) training on best practices for crafting, dis-
seminating, and assessing the effectiveness of emer-
gency alert and warning messages, provided across 
different platforms and jurisdictions; 
(5) development of standardized metrics to as-
sess the effectiveness of emergency alert and warn-
ing systems; 
(6) testing of technology and infrastructure for 
emergency alert and warning systems, including 
multimodal capabilities, to ensure such systems are 
working effectively and in coordination with one an-
other; 
(7) technical assistance for the development of 
public education campaigns that explain how emer-
gency alert and warning systems work, actions by 
individuals required to ensure they receive alerts and 
warnings, and how individuals and communities 
should respond; and 
(8) review of, and recommendations for, local 
policy and standard operating procedures regarding 
the use of emergency alert and warning systems. 
(c) OPERATIONAL PLAN.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, 
in consultation with State, local, and Tribal authorities, 
shall develop and submit to Congress a plan for carrying 
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out the program under this section. Such plan shall con-
tain anticipated costs and metrics to assess the effective-
ness of such training, testing, and exercises. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Ad-
ministrator shall submit to Congress a report on the field 
training, end-to-end testing, community-based exercises, 
and public education supported under this section and 
such report shall contain— 
(1) for each Alerting Authority under the Inte-
grated Public Alert and Warning System and for 
each State, local, or Tribal authority receiving as-
sistance under this section that is not an established 
Alerting Authority— 
(A) whether the authority has conducted 
field training, end-to-end testing, community- 
based exercises, and public education relating to 
the emergency alert and warning systems of 
such authority; 
(B) the frequency and scope of the activi-
ties described in subparagraph (A); 
(C) whether the authority has established 
sufficient standard operating procedures re-
garding the use of its emergency alert and 
warning systems; 
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(D) a description of the percentage of indi-
viduals or regions covered by its emergency 
alert and warning systems; 
(E) a description of the methods used to 
obtain public participation and feedback, and 
their results, during and after such activities; 
and 
(F) a description of opt-out rates for emer-
gency alert and warning systems during and 
after such activities; 
(2) an assessment of the effectiveness of such 
field training, end-to-end testing, and community- 
based exercises as measured by the metrics con-
tained in the plan required under subsection (c); and 
(3) any recommendations for updating such 
plan. 
(e) SUNSET.—The authority provided under this sec-
tion shall terminate on the date that is 10 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to 
carry out this section $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2025 through 2035. 
(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion may be construed to require State, local and Tribal 
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