Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
Latest action · Dec 5, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
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.
- IntroducedOct 17, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
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 Oct 17, 2025 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Oct 17, 2025 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Dec 5, 2025 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Oct 17, 2025 |
| Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee | Referred Dec 1, 2025 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Oct 17, 2025 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Oct 17, 2025 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 5, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- Dec 1, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- Oct 17, 2025Introduced in House
- Oct 17, 2025Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, 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. 172, October 17, 2025, page H4542.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF12938 | U.S. Satellite Capabilities for Tracking the Wildfire Life Cycle | Resource | Sep 10, 2026 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 91 | Western Wildfire Support Act of 2026 | Related bill | Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 6618 | Wildfire Aerial Response Safety Act | Related bill | Mar 25, 2026 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To improve Federal activities relating to wildfires, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Accounting and auditing
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Appropriations
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Aviation and airports
- Budget process
- Community life and organization
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Ecology
- Emergency Management
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Fires
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Land use and conservation
- Military education and training
- Military operations and strategy
- Motor vehicles
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Research and development
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Transportation safety and security
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 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.
