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House vote: S. 3875 // December 6, 2022Needed two-thirds to pass

Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022

Sponsor: Gary Peters (D-MI)

This act requires the President to continue to maintain a natural hazard assessment program that develops and maintains publicly available products to show the risk of natural hazards across the United States. Such products shall show the risk of natural hazards and include ratings and data for loss exposure, social vulnerability, community resilience, and any other element determined by the President. The President shall (1) review the underlying methodology of any product that is a natural hazard risk assessment and receive public input on the methodology and data used for the product, and (2) consider including additional data in any product that is a natural disaster hazard risk assessment.

Emergency Management Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Yea

326 votes, representing 194,892,462 people74.8%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

91 votes, representing 55,148,687 people21.2%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 4.0% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon32674.8%
NayLost9121.2%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken04.0%