Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025
Latest action · Oct 21, 2025 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 194.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 18, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025
This bill provides statutory authority for the National Mesonet Program (NMP) maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (Mesonets are networks of automated weather and soil observation stations that collect data used in measuring, tracking, and forecasting weather and its effects. The NMP is a national network of local mesonets that collects and disseminates non-federal atmospheric weather observations in the United States.)
The bill sets forth certain requirements for the NMP, including that the program must obtain weather observations in order to improve understanding and forecasting of atmospheric, drought, fire, and water events, and establish means to integrate increased numbers and types of environmental observations into the program annually. However, NOAA may obtain data under the program only when it is demonstrably cost effective and meets or exceeds certain data quality standards.
Of funds appropriated to the program annually, NOAA must award at least 15% to state, tribal, private, and academic entities seeking to build, expand, or upgrade mesonet system equipment and capacity. Entities receiving funds must agree to provide data to the NMP. In allocating funding, NOAA must prioritize providing funds to entities in remote areas and areas that lack environmental monitoring stations.
NOAA must also ensure the NMP has an active advisory committee, comprised of subject matter experts, to make recommendations on data needs and procurement, among other topics.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 18, 2025.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Original | Feb 18, 2025 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2025Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-83.
- Oct 21, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 194.
- Mar 12, 2025Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Feb 18, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Feb 18, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 590 | Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Feb 13, 2025 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Agricultural practices and innovations
- Agricultural research
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Emergency communications systems
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fires
- Floods and storm protection
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Higher education
- Natural disasters
- Science, Technology, Communications
- State and local finance
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2025Reported to Senate
- Feb 18, 2025Introduced in Senate
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.