Extreme Weather and Heat Response Modernization Act

HR 9024 establishes a new FEMA advisory panel to review how incident periods are determined for disasters, focusing on slow-onset, compound, and cascading events like extreme heat. It authorizes FEMA to fund community cooling centers and resilience centers, and to support innovative heat mitigation projects like equipment stockpiling for households and first responders. The bill requires FEMA to issue updated guidance on extreme heat planning and conduct a study examining heat impacts on vulnerable communities, infrastructure, health, and emergency alerts. These changes directly affect FEMA, state/local emergency managers, and communities facing increasingly frequent extreme heat events.