section 401 of this Act, and penalties for noncompli-
ance. 
(2) MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS.—The Admin-
istrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency shall direct companies participating in the 
Write Your Own Program to maintain records per-
taining to the labor standards outlined in section 
401 of this Act for all workers hired using National 
Flood Insurance Program funds. 
SEC. 403. CLIMATE RESILIENCE WORKERS COMMISSION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Department of Labor shall establish a Climate Resilience 
Workers Commission within the Office of the Secretary. 
(b) AUTHORITY.—The Commission shall be author-
ized to— 
(1) identify whistleblower procedures that will 
most effectively allow climate resilience workers to 
identify violations of Federal, State, and local labor 
and employment laws, and to report those violations 
and seek investigation, redress and compensation 
without suffering retaliation; 
(2) identify, recommend and implement a prac-
tice by which to provide warnings to entities in viola-
tion of minimum labor standards and workers’ 
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rights, to notify the Office of the Secretary of any 
entities that violate standards and rights, and make 
recommendations on penalties and transfer of grant 
funding, jobs, and workers funded through non-
compliant entities to other eligible entities without 
any job loss for climate resilience workers; 
(3) collaborate with divisions and offices within 
the Department of Labor to identify ways by which 
to promote, enforce, improve, and expand applicable 
worker protections; 
(4) make recommendations on regulations and 
subregulatory guidances; 
(5) convene climate resilience stakeholders for 
meetings and forums, including the Climate Resil-
ience Worker Safety Committee program described 
in section 601(d)(2); 
(6) operate cross-agency task forces in order to 
pursue the goals and standards of this Act; and 
(7) engage in such other actions as may be 
under the authority of the Department of Labor to 
pursue the goals of this Act. 
(c) COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) CHAIR.—The Chair of the Commission will 
be appointed by the Secretary. 
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(A) MEMBERS.—The Commission shall be 
composed of not less than 20 additional individ-
uals, selected by the Chair of the Commission 
from nominees proposed pursuant to subpara-
graph (B), as follows: 
(i) Not less than 10 members shall be 
individuals who are members of frontline 
communities. 
(ii) Not less than 8 members shall be 
individuals who are members of, or advo-
cate on behalf of, or both, populations fac-
ing barriers to employment. 
(iii) The Commission shall include a 
broad and representative group of labor, 
worker and workforce development stake-
holders. 
(iv) The Commission shall include 
representatives 
from 
relevant 
Federal 
agencies including the Department of La-
bor’s Occupational Safety and Health Ad-
ministration and Wage and Hour Division, 
the Department of Homeland Security’s 
United States Citizenship and Immigration 
Services and Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency, the Department of Justice, 
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and the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission. 
(B) NOMINATION.—Nominees for members 
of the Commission shall be proposed by any 
grantee or subgrantee under this Act. 
(C) REPORT.—Upon selection of members 
of the Commission, the Commission shall sub-
mit a report to Congress identifying the mem-
bers selected and demonstration of compliance 
with the provisions of this subsection. 
(D) TERMS.—Members of the Commission 
shall serve terms of 2 years. 
(2) MEETINGS.—The Commission shall meet in 
person not less often than twice each year. 
(3) COMPENSATION.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish guidelines and a process for providing com-
pensation to individuals who would otherwise not be 
able to participate or who would experience financial 
hardship without such compensation. 
(4) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—The agencies 
implementing this Act shall construe this Act in a 
manner that facilitates and encourage the full par-
ticipation of Commission members and shall consider 
the barriers faced by frontline communities and pop-
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ulations facing barriers to employment and shall en-
deavor to overcome such barriers to participation. 
(5) APPLICABILITY
OF
FACA.—Section 14 of 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.) shall not apply with respect to the Commis-
sion. 
SEC. 404. WORKERS EMPLOYED USING STAFFORD ACT 
FUNDS. 
Section 611(j) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5196(j)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(10)(A) All laborers, mechanics and other workers 
employed by contractors or subcontractors who are have 
been determined by the Center for the Climate Resilience 
Workforce to be performing work within climate resilience 
sectors as defined in section 7 of the Climate Resilience 
Workforce Act and financed with the assistance of any 
contribution of Federal funds made by the Administrator 
under this subsection shall have the right of the labor 
standards detailed in section 401 of the Climate Resilience 
Workforce Act. 
‘‘(B) Subparagraph (A) shall apply to workers em-
ployed by contractors or subcontractors who are financed 
with the assistance of any contributions of Federal funds 
made by the Administrator through PA Grants (42 U.S.C. 
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