Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 14, 2026 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.
- IntroducedJun 17, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 17, 2025 to Aug 15, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam Gray | Original | Jun 17, 2025 |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | Aug 15, 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 Jun 17, 2025 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Jan 7, 2026Hearings Jan 14, 2026 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2025 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2025 |
| Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee | Referred Jun 18, 2025 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2025 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 14, 2026Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Jan 7, 2026Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Jun 18, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- Jun 17, 2025Introduced in House
- Jun 17, 2025Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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.
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. 104, June 17, 2025, page H2832.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 902 | Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Dec 2, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a standard for the response time to wildfire incidents, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 17, 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.
