Bills · 119th Congress · Emergency Management

POWER Act of 2025

Also known as Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025

Where it stands

  1. Introduced1/3/25
  2. Passed HousePassed 1/15/25
  3. Senate
  4. President
  5. Law

Passed the House 419–2 on January 15, 2025 (Roll Call 13 →). Received in the Senate on January 16, 2025. No Senate action since.

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · 1/15/25Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic210 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Not voting
  • Republican209 Yea · 2 Nay · 7 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

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.

Full text on congress.gov ↗
Sponsor
Rep. Val T. Hoyle ( Democrat · OR-4)
Cosponsors
1
Introduced
1/3/25
Policy area
Emergency Management

What happens next

The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.

All actions (12)
  1. 1/3/25Introduced in House
  2. 1/3/25Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
  3. 1/4/25Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
  4. 1/13/25Mr. Graves moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  5. 1/13/25Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H103-104)
  6. 1/13/25DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 164.
  7. 1/13/25At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  8. 1/15/25Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H168-169)
  9. 1/15/25Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)
  10. 1/15/25On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)
  11. 1/15/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  12. 1/16/25Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.