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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3626 
To amend the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 
to set training requirements on eligibility for certain emergency manage-
ment performance grants, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 24, 2023 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself and Mr. CARTER of Louisiana) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform 
Act of 2006 to set training requirements on eligibility 
for certain emergency management performance grants, 
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 ‘‘Emergency Manage-
ment Support Act’’ or the ‘‘EMS Act’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
EMERGENCY 
MANAGEMENT 
PERFORMANCE 
GRANTS PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 661 of the Post-Katrina 
Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 
762) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) the term ‘local emergency management di-
rector’ means an official designated at the local level 
to coordinate local disaster response, emergency 
planning, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, 
disaster mitigation, and related activities on a full- 
time or part-time basis.’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (g); 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT.—To be eligible to 
receive a grant under this section— 
‘‘(1) a State shall— 
‘‘(A) require local emergency management 
directors to successfully complete Federal 
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Emergency Management Agency provided base-
line emergency management training developed 
in accordance with the National Incident Man-
agement System— 
‘‘(i) not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this subsection; and 
‘‘(ii) recurrently at an interval deter-
mined by the Administrator to strengthen 
local emergency management capacity; and 
‘‘(B) submit certifications to the Adminis-
trator annually as directed by the Adminis-
trator regarding compliance with the require-
ments in paragraph (1); or 
‘‘(2) with respect to a State that cannot certify 
that all local emergency management directors have 
completed training required under paragraph (1)(A), 
a State shall submit a certification that includes— 
‘‘(A) an identification of all barriers to 
achieving the baseline emergency management 
training requirement; and 
‘‘(B) an approach to overcoming barriers 
identified under subparagraph (A) with an an-
ticipated timeline for full compliance with the 
baseline emergency management training re-
quirement.’’; and 
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(4) in subsection (g), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘There is’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL
AUTHORIZATION.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out subsection (f).’’. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on compliance with the amend-
ments made by this Act. 
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