Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs studies and a congressional report to improve coordination and funding access for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially accelerating on‑the‑ground hazard reduction—while imposing modest study costs and risking regulatory changes or funding shifts that could affect landowners and other programs.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill commissions a GAO study to improve coordination, funding access, and efficiency for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially increasing treatments and federal dollars' value—but it risks delaying immediate actions and adding administrative costs or resource needs to implement recommended changes.
Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act
The bill expands and clarifies tax relief for disaster-affected individuals (including non-itemizers and wildfire victims) to speed recovery and simplify administration, but it reduces federal revenue, adds compliance complexity, and provides time-limited, uneven coverage that leaves some victims without relief.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds larger advance federal payments to farmers and private forest owners to accelerate recovery from wildfires and emergency threats, but increases upfront federal costs, administrative complexity, and repayment risk for recipients.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill expands and accelerates emergency restoration aid for wildfire-affected private landowners (including federally- or human-caused fires), improving recovery speed but increasing federal costs, oversight risk, and administrative complexity.
ACRES Act
The bill increases public transparency and the potential quality of hazardous fuels-reduction work—helping communities and enabling oversight—but does so by imposing new data-collection burdens without added funding and carries risks of inconsistent reporting, misleading comparisons, and sensitive disclosures.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act
The bill secures tribal land recognition and near-term flood protections for Osceola Camp—improving safety and tribal control—but creates modest government administrative work, taxpayer costs, and risks that protections or environmental reviews could be limited or rushed if funding and implementation details are unresolved.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal earthquake resilience by expanding scope, clarifying roles, improving early warning, and providing multi‑year support, but many new expectations hinge on future appropriations and will raise costs and administrative burdens for governments and property owners.
National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens forecasting, data, partnership, and funding for flood, drought, and landslide preparedness—improving public safety and water management—but does so with targeted appropriations and administrative constraints that may shift resources, limit flexibility, and create ongoing budget demands.
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
The bill makes it much easier and faster for disaster survivors to apply for and track federal assistance through a single, data-linked system, but it concentrates sensitive data, reduces some pre-clearance oversight, and sets aggressive timelines that raise privacy, implementation, and reliability risks.
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
This bill secures funding continuity and expands targeted services (notably for veterans, health care access, and rural programs) for early FY2026 while trading off higher federal outlays, weakened budget enforcement and oversight, program rescissions, and added constraints and administrative burdens on agencies.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill would substantially strengthen wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and responder capacity — improving safety and planning for many communities — at the cost of significant federal spending, expanded data‑sharing (and related privacy/cybersecurity risks), and added administrative burden that could slow near‑term deployments and alter local authority.
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act
The bill gives disaster-affected taxpayers broader, easier-to-access tax-deadline relief to aid recovery, at the cost of possible refund delays, greater IRS administrative burden, and inconsistent treatment across States.
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill provides federally standardized, regularly updated sinkhole-risk mapping that improves planning, preparedness, and scientific understanding—but shifts potential financial and regulatory costs onto homeowners, under-resourced localities, and federal taxpayers.
Designating May 2025 as "National Wildfire Preparedness Month".
The resolution increases national attention to wildfire risks—boosting public health protections, firefighter safety, community preparedness, and potential long‑term cost savings—at the cost of requiring new investments and possible regulatory and budget trade-offs for taxpayers and local governments.
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
The bill lets state and local governments purchase DOD aircraft and parts through 2035 to strengthen wildfire suppression capacity, but it narrows other uses, may create long-term reliance that discourages civilian fleet investment, and could impose indirect costs on taxpayers.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill funds and sustains a wide range of defense, veterans, health, infrastructure, and research programs to avoid shutdowns and preserve near‑term services, but does so by increasing federal spending, extending temporary authorities, and reducing some oversight and multi‑year certainty—shifting fiscal and accountability risks into the near future.
Rural Small Business Resilience Act
The bill increases outreach and speeds SBA action to help rural disaster-declared residents and small businesses access recovery assistance, but it may raise agency costs and divert SBA capacity from other programs if additional funding is not provided.
Fix Our Forests Act
The bill accelerates and coordinates large-scale fuels reduction, watershed restoration, tribal inclusion, and community assistance to reduce wildfire risk and create economic opportunities — but it does so by streamlining and expanding federal authorities in ways that reduce environmental review, local control, and some legal protections while raising administrative costs and implementation risks.
POWER Act of 2025
The bill lets utilities pair emergency restoration with hazard mitigation to speed recovery and reduce future outage costs, but it raises near‑term federal spending and risks uneven prioritization and treatment across communities and utilities.
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
The bill improves transparency and clarity around federal disaster assistance—helping governments, communities, and watchdogs detect waste and coordinate recovery—while creating new quarterly reporting costs, potential privacy/security risks, and the possibility of expanded eligibility that raises fiscal and administrative burdens.
Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act
The bill aims to streamline and make federal disaster assistance more transparent and faster through centralized data processes and technology use, but it creates upfront costs, transition risks for local partners, and potential privacy exposures that must be managed.
Observing the 1-year anniversary of the 2025 Southern California wildfires.
The resolution commits federal recognition and coordination to support recovery and strengthen emergency response for a large displaced population, potentially unlocking funding and preparedness benefits, but it raises federal costs and administrative complexity and risks slow or uneven delivery of aid to those affected.
Recognizing that climate change is making wildfires more frequent, more intense, and more destructive.
The resolution strengthens the evidence base to justify federal wildfire mitigation and public-health responses—potentially improving protection for many Americans—but could also lead to higher public spending, regulatory costs, and legal disputes as climate attribution shapes policy and liability.
Recognizing the strong link between climate change and skyrocketing insurance premiums.
The resolution documents how rising disaster-related insurance costs threaten housing affordability and mortgage access—providing evidence that could spur targeted relief—while highlighting that many homeowners, especially in high-risk states, face sharply higher premiums that risk pricing them out, increasing defaults, and potentially shifting costs to taxpayers.
Recognizing that sea levels are rising at accelerated rates due to human-caused climate change.
The resolution gives coastal communities and governments stronger scientific and political grounds to pursue federal resilience investments and climate action, but it also heightens near-term economic costs, property-market impacts, and political friction that could burden homeowners, taxpayers, and local planners.
Recognizing the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The bill channels substantial federal investment into levees, evacuation routes, grid hardening, and insurance reforms to reduce storm damage and speed recovery in the Gulf, but it requires large public spending and risks leaving vulnerable populations and nonstructural recovery needs insufficiently protected.
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
The bill strengthens wildfire detection, response, reporting, and long‑term rehabilitation—providing new funding, teams, technology pilots, and clearer planning authorities—but does so at the cost of new federal spending, potential shifts of DOD resources, added administrative burdens, and gaps or burdens for some communities (including excluded lands and local partners).
NFIP Extension Act of 2025
The bill preserves short-term access to flood insurance and FEMA's ability to pay claims (including retroactive coverage) but does so by extending borrowing authority and postponing long-term NFIP reforms, leaving taxpayers exposed and policyholders facing continued uncertainty about future premiums and flood maps.
