US Congress House Bill 2838 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Introduced on May 20 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Department of Transportation to (1) establish criteria for eligible entities to identify mass evacuation routes, (2) establish a competitive grant program to provide grants for resilience projects that strengthen and protect evacuation routes that are essential for providing and supporting mass evacuations caused by emergency events, and (3) provide grants to resilience projects that ensure the ability of the evacuation route to provide safe passage during a mass evacuation and reduce the risk of damage to evacuation routes as a result of future emergency events.

ESCAPE Act Enhancing the Strength and Capacity of America's Primary Evacuation routes Act

Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Harley Rouda [D-CA]	Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R-CA]
Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Josh Harder [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
2019-05-20	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E627)
2019-05-20	House	Introduced in House

SB1546 (Same As) 2019-05-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
SB2302 (Related) 2020-01-08 - By Senator Barrasso from Committee on Environment and Public Works filed written report. Report No. 116-200.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2838/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr2838/BILLS-116hr2838ih.pdf