Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
Official title: A bill to streamline the sharing of information among Federal disaster assistance agencies, to expedite the delivery of life-saving assistance to disaster survivors, to speed the recovery of communities from disasters, to protect the security and privacy of information provided by disaster survivors, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Gary Peters D-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2025
- Committee actionJul 30, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 16, 2025 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2025 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 861.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 861, Disaster Assistance Simplification Act” on April 13, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on December 16, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 13, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62325
- CBO publication date
- April 13, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 861, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/861
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 28, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of June 28, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 861, last updated June 28, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
5 cosponsors — 5 Republicans
5 of 5 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Ted Budd (R-NC), Joni Ernst (R-IA), James Lankford (R-OK), Rand Paul (R-KY), Thomas Tillis (R-NC).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters.
- S. 2878 (119th) Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act
- S. 272 (119th) Protect Infant Formula from Contamination Act
- S. 727 (119th) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Technical Corrections Act
- S. 2542 (119th) Federal Building Threat Notification Act
- S. 434 (119th) Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act
- S. 97 (119th) Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act
Related bills
- S. 1462 (119th) Fix Our Forests ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.