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S. 1429

U.S. Senate•In Senate Committee

Summary

S. 1429, the POWER Act of 2025, was introduced in the Senate on Apr 10, 2025 by Sen. James Lankford (R) with 6 co-sponsors. It was referred to Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs, and last saw action on Apr 10, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Record

Text

S. 1429 has 6 co-sponsors.

sb1429/introduced-in-senate.txt
119 S1429 IS: Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025
 U.S. Senate
 2025-04-10
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 1429  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   April 10, 2025   Mr. Lankford  (for himself,  Ms. Hassan ,  Mr. Blumenthal ,  Mr. Wicker ,  Mr. Kim , and  Mr. Mullin ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs    A BILL
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize Federal agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025   or the   POWER Act of 2025   .
2.
Essential assistance
(a)
In general
Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170b ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(e)
Electric utilities
(1)
Hazard mitigation activities
An electric utility may carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities jointly or otherwise in combination with activities for the restoration of power carried out with assistance provided under this section.
(2)
Eligibility for additional assistance
In any case in which an electric utility facility receives assistance under this section for the emergency restoration of power, the receipt of such assistance shall not render such facility ineligible for any hazard mitigation assistance under section 406 for which such facility is otherwise eligible.
 .
(b)
Applicability
The amendment made by subsection (a) shall only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

Tracker

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  1. Introduced2025-04-10
  2. Passed Senate
  3. Passed House
  4. Conference
  5. To President
  6. Became Law

CRS Summary

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Introduced in Senate Apr 10, 2025

sb1429/introduced-in-senate.md

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Introduced in Senate (04/10/2025)

Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025

This bill authorizes electric utilities receiving certain emergency assistance for the restoration of power to also carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities in combination with the power restoration activities.

Additionally, the bill specifies that electric utilities receiving such assistance for a facility may, if otherwise eligible, also receive hazard mitigation assistance for the same facility under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance program.

Sponsors

Sen. James Lankford (R) sponsors S. 1429, and 6 members have co-sponsored it, 5 of them from the day it was introduced.

Committees

S. 1429 went before 1 committee: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Referred To · Apr 10, 2025 · 444 Bills

Actions

S. 1429 has taken 2 actions since Apr 10, 2025.

ChamberAction
Apr 10, 2025
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Apr 10, 2025
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Introduced in Senate

Votes

S. 1429 has not gone to a roll call.

2 bills are related to S. 1429.

Titles

S. 1429 goes by 4 titles, 2 of them short titles.

  • POWER Act of 2025 — Display Title
  • POWER Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
  • Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
  • A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize Federal agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

4 clients hired 4 firms and 37 registered lobbyists who named S. 1429 in 17 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Transportation, Budget/Appropriations, Automotive Industry, Consumer Issues/Safety/Products, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Insurance.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

ClientBusinessStateFirmsFilingsReported
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—District of Columbia16—
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES—District of Columbia15—
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)—Virginia15—
AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION—Virginia11—

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

RegistrantClientsFilingsReported
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA16—
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES15—
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)15—
AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION11—

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 37.

LobbyistFirmsClientsFilings
BRETT HEWITT116
DAVID PEARCE116
DONALD GRIFFIN116
MONA DOOLEY116
ROBERT GORDON116
SAM WHITFIELD116
STEF ZIELEZIENSKI116
THERESA PETTIGREW116
ANTHONY COTTO115
CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN115
HILL THOMAS115
JAMES GRANDE115
JASON COOKE115
JOSEPH CIRRINCIONE115
KATHERINE DUVENECK115
KATIE CULLETON115
LOUIS FINKEL115
MARY KIRLIN115
MICHAEL HORDER115
MONTEE WYNN115

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

ClientRegistrantPeriodReportedDocument
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2026 second_quarter$2.1M2nd Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2025 second_quarter$1.7M2nd Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2026 first_quarter$1.4M1st Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2025 third_quarter$1.4M3rd Quarter - Amendme…
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2025 third_quarter$1.4M3rd Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA2025 fourth_quarter$1.4M4th Quarter - Report
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)2025 second_quarter$1.2M2nd Quarter - Report
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)2026 second_quarter$980K2nd Quarter - Report
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)2026 first_quarter$850K1st Quarter - Report
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)2025 third_quarter$840K3rd Quarter - Report
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)2025 fourth_quarter$770K4th Quarter - Report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES2026 second_quarter$540K2nd Quarter - Report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES2026 first_quarter$506.4K1st Quarter - Report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES2025 fourth_quarter$465.8K4th Quarter - Report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES2025 third_quarter$442.1K3rd Quarter - Report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES2025 second_quarter$435.7K2nd Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION2025 second_quarter$270K2nd Quarter - Report

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files S. 1429 under Emergency Management, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; S. 1429’s is Emergency Management.

s1429/policy-areas.txt
Emergency ManagementAgriculture and FoodAnimalsArmed Forces and National SecurityArts, Culture, ReligionCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesCommerceCongressCrime and Law EnforcementEconomics and Public FinanceEducationEnergyEnvironmental ProtectionFamiliesFinance and Financial SectorForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment Operations and PoliticsHealthHousing and Community DevelopmentImmigrationInternational AffairsLabor and EmploymentLawNative AmericansPublic Lands and Natural ResourcesScience, Technology, CommunicationsSocial WelfareSports and RecreationTaxationTransportation and Public WorksWater Resources Development

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