The DISASTER Act of 2025 would require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to annually report to Congress on all disaster-related assistance provided by the Federal Government. The report would compile obligations for disaster response, recovery, and mitigation, plus related administrative costs, across a broad set of federal agencies and programs. The goal is to create a single, publicly accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset to improve transparency, inform budgeting and appropriations, and identify opportunities to reduce vulnerability to future disasters. The first reporting obligation would accompany the budget submission for Fiscal Year 2027, covering disaster-related obligations for the prior fiscal year (ending in 2025).
Key Points
- 1Creates new Sec. 1127 in Chapter 11 of Title 31 to require annual reporting of disaster-related assistance to Congress.
- 2The report is due on the same day as the President’s annual budget submission (under 31 U.S.C. 1105) and covers the fiscal year ending in the calendar year immediately preceding that budget submission.
- 3“Disaster-related assistance” includes obligations related to disaster response, recovery, mitigation, and related administrative costs, and spans a wide range of agencies and programs (e.g., Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, DHS/FEMA, HUD, HUD, Interior, Justice, Labor, Transportation, EPA, Small Business Administration, DOE, Treasury, VA, etc.).
- 4Required content: total disaster-related obligations; obligations by agency and account; disasters and types; disaster-type breakdown; and spending by response/recovery, mitigation, loans, and grants.
- 5Data must be publicly available on the OMB website and be searchable, sortable, and downloadable.
- 6Adds a conforming amendment to the table of chapters to insert Sec. 1127.
- 7Effective date: the reporting requirement takes effect with the FY 2027 budget submission; the first report would reflect the prior fiscal year (likely FY 2025).