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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2568 
To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 1, 2025 
Mr. MULLIN (for himself and Mr. FONG) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and 
in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 
Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, 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 ‘‘Earthquake Resilience 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EARTHQUAKE RESILIENCY. 
(a) NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 
two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Director of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
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nology, in collaboration with the Administrator of the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency, the Director of the 
National Science Foundation, and the Director of the 
United States Geological Survey, and in coordination with 
appropriate representatives of Federal, State, local, Trib-
al, and territorial governments and other stakeholders, 
shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate a national risk assessment to identify the following: 
(1) The progress made by communities to 
strengthen earthquake resilience. 
(2) Any gaps in such resilience that remain as 
of the date of the risk assessment. 
(b) NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION 
PROGRAM.—Section 5 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduc-
tion Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7704) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(B)— 
(i) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘and 
post-earthquake recovery-based perform-
ance objectives that address functional re-
covery and reoccupancy’’ after ‘‘earthquake 
hazards reduction’’; 
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(ii) by redesignating clauses (iii) and 
(iv) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; 
(iii) by inserting after clause (ii) the 
following new clause: 
‘‘(iii) development of standards, guide-
lines, and consensus codes for improved 
post-earthquake recovery of services pro-
vided by lifeline infrastructure coordinated, 
as appropriate, by a national lifeline infra-
structure organization;’’; and 
(iv) in clause (v), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 
(B) in paragraph (4)(A)(iii), by inserting 
‘‘, including pursuant to paragraph (2),’’ after 
‘‘results of the Program’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)(3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, real-time global 
navigation satellite system (GNSS) net-
work data streams, and geodetic network 
data’’ after ‘‘regional seismic networks’’; 
and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semi-
colon; and 
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(B) in subparagraph (H), by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’. 
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