To improve tornado detection, forecasting, warning dissemination, and community resilience, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8846 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8846 To improve tornado detection, forecasting, warning dissemination, and community resilience, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 15, 2026 Mr. Bell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To improve tornado detection, forecasting, warning dissemination, and community resilience, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Tornado Preparedness Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Tornadoes and severe storms pose a persistent and growing threat to communities across the United States, particularly in high-risk regions such as the Midwest and Southeast. (2) In May 2025, a tornado in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan region resulted in significant damage and exposed critical failures in local emergency warning systems, including failures in siren activation and delays in public notification. (3) A subsequent public report on the May 2025 St. Louis tornado identified breakdowns in emergency management coordination, unclear lines of authority for alert activation, and insufficient redundancy in warning systems. (4) Recent tornado events across the United States have resulted in loss of life, destruction of homes and infrastructure, and long-term economic disruption. (5) Advances