1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preliminary Damage Assessment Improvement Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Preliminary damage assessments play a critical role in assessing and validating the impact and magnitude of a disaster. (2) Through the preliminary damage assessment process, representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency work with State and local officials to gather information that serves as the basis for disaster assistance requests. (3) Various factors can impact the duration of a preliminary damage assessment and the corresponding submission of a major disaster request, however, the average time between when a disaster occurs, and the submission of a corresponding disaster request has been found to be approximately twenty days longer for flooding disasters. (4) With communities across the country facing increased instances of catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, accurate and efficient preliminary damage assessments have become critically important to the relief process for impacted states and municipalities. 3. Report to Congress (a) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall submit to Congress a report describing the preliminary damage assessment process, as carried out by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the 5 years before the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Contents The report described in subsection (a) shall contain the following: (1) The process of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for deploying disaster assessment teams to conduct preliminary damage assessments. (2) The number of Agency staff participating on disaster assessment teams. (3) The training and experience of such staff described in paragraph (2). (4) A calculation of the average amount of time disaster assessment teams described in paragraph (1) are deployed to a disaster area. (5) The efforts of the Agency to maintain a consistent liaison between