FLASH Act
Latest action · Mar 11, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 4, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 4, 2025 to Apr 7, 2025; 8 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AR | Bruce Westerman | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-TX | Dan Crenshaw | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-GA | Earl L. "Buddy" Carter | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-NY | Nicole Malliotakis | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-ID | Russ Fulcher | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-WI | Thomas P. Tiffany | Original | Mar 4, 2025 |
| R-OR | Cliff Bentz | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| R-VA | Jennifer A. Kiggans | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Mar 6, 2025 | |
| R-WI | Bryan Steil | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-NC | Chuck Edwards | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-AR | J. French Hill | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-MN | Pete Stauber | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-WY | Harriet M. Hageman | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Mar 14, 2025 | |
| R-GA | Mike Collins | Mar 14, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Apr 7, 2025 |
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Mar 4, 2025 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Mar 5, 2025Hearings Mar 11, 2025 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Mar 4, 2025 |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Mar 4, 2025 |
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Mar 4, 2025 |
| Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 4, 2025 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 11, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Mar 5, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Mar 4, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 4, 2025Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, the Budget, and Homeland Security, 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.
- Mar 4, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H975H.R. 1820–1842 | — | Mar 4, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 41, March 4, 2025, page H975.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R49032 | Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 119th Congress | Report | Jul 14, 2026 |
| R48779 | Hazardous Fuels and Wildfire Mitigation: Background and Congressional Considerations | Report | May 8, 2026 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2026 | Ending Major Borderland Environmental Ruin from Wildfires (EMBER) Act | Related bill | Apr 4, 2025 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To address the public safety issues and environmental destruction currently impacting Federal lands along the southern border, enhance border security through the construction of navigable roads on Federal lands along the southern border, provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection access to Federal lands to improve the safety and effectiveness of enforcement activities, allow States to place temporary barriers on Federal land to secure the southern border, reduce the massive trash accumulations and environmental degradation along the southern border, reduce the cultivation of illegal cannabis on Federal lands, mitigate wildland fires caused by illegal immigration, and prohibit migrant housing on Federal lands.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- FLASH Act
- Federal Lands Amplified Security for the Homeland Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Department of the Interior
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Intergovernmental relations
- Land use and conservation
- Pest management
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Roads and highways
- Securities
- Solid waste and recycling
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 4, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
