House Passes HR 6566 Mandating FEMA To Prepare For Massive US Casualties









(Kimberly Paxton) (Editors note: Earlier we reported that congress has passed this bill. We were wrong. Sorry about the inaccurate headline.) The US Congress has put the government’s purchase of over a billion and a half rounds of hollow point bullets into perspective with their latest legislative offering, HR Bill 6566: The Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act.

The act was quietly passed on September 28, but only caught public attention yesterday. It mandates Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make preparations for fatalities so great in number that mortuaries, hospitals and funeral homes are overwhelmed.





This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002, requiring the Administrator of FEMA to “provide guidance and coordination for mass fatality planning, and for other purposes.”

According to the text of the Bill:

Congress finds the following: (1) Emergency preparedness often plans for how to prepare and provide for survivors of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, but fails to plan for how to prepare for and respond to mass fatalities that result from such an incident. (2) Funeral homes, cemeteries, and mortuaries could be overwhelmed should mass fatalities arise from a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster. (3) Different religions have different customs surrounding death; for example, the Jewish and Muslim religions call for burial of the deceased not later than 48 hours after death.

We must be very concerned when plans are put into place to deal with such a large number of dead bodies. This video provides further analysis of the Bill:

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