S 4153 · 116th Congress · Emergency Management

National Response Framework Improvement Act of 2020

Introduced 2020-07-02· Sponsored by Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]· Senate

Bill Progress

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House
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Enacted
Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 621.(2020-12-14)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Response Framework Improvement Act of 2020 This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to evaluate the National Response Framework of the Department of Homeland Security based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic and take specified steps regarding information sharing, training, and briefing Congress. Specifically, FEMA, acting through the National Integration Center, shall conduct an initial evaluation of the National Response Framework to determine whether there are any gaps or inefficiencies in the framework based on the response to the pandemic. FEMA shall also evaluate the processes for collecting and sharing information across the primary and support agencies of the emergency support functions during an incident for which the emergency support functions are activated under the framework, and provide recommendations for how to improve such processes; update the framework to account for new information collection and sharing processes that result from the evaluation and recommendations; assess the training programs for primary and support agencies of the emergency support functions under the framework and p…

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